Fly Launches LINKZ Full Touch Dual-SIM Phone in India
IT News Online Staff
2010-02-23
Fly Mobile, a Meridian Group brand providing dual SIM phones, has launched in India the Fly LINKZ (E145), the stylish all-in-one messaging and social networking full touch dual-SIM phone.
Available at Rs. 5,509/-, the Fly LINKZ is targeted at youth in the age bracket of 18-35 years living in metros and mini metros who prefer to chat and network with friends on the go.
Prem Kumar, Chief Executive Officer (India Operations), Fly Mobile, said, "Buoyed by the success of Fly Circle (B430 DS), our first all-in-one instant messaging and social networking phone, we decided to up the ante by launching a full touch edition for the urban youth who are more touch savvy. Earlier, with MC160 and E106, we had broken the touch phone price barrier. This is in perfect accordance with our philosophy of capturing not just the requirements, but also the aspirations of the users through continuous consumer research and incorporating the feedback into our products as features."
The company said the Fly LINKZ a new-generation mobile phone designed for the online age, making users more mobile. Social networks and communities supported by the Nimbuzz application include Skype, Windows Live Messenger (MSN), GTalk, Yahoo!, AIM, MySpace, ICQ and others.
At the heart of Nimbuzz is the live contact list, an always-on, hyper-connected, dynamic address book, enhanced with "real-time-presence" showing at a glance who's online, offline, busy or away, their status messages and social community activity. Users can launch IM chat sessions, offline messaging, send photos / videos / music, voice messaging and various other communication and interactive features.
Using the Snaptu application on Fly LINKZ, users can plug into Twitter, Facebook, Picasa, Flickr and Google Calendar from anywhere, anytime. Besides this, users can fill those idle moments with a game of Sudoku or kill time with Trivia, an absorbing quick fire quiz. If one happens to be a sports aficionado, Snaptu keeps him updated on cricket and football from anywhere across the world. Users can get the latest news updates from Reuters, BBC, New York Times, Yahoo and hundreds of other credible sources, and also weather updates from any city in the world.
Besides the 262K colors, 240 x 400 pixel WQVGA screen and other interesting features, the Fly LINKZ includes 2 Megapixel camera (with photo slide show feature), motion sensor games, video record and play, audio player (8 editable equalizer with display of lyrics and album cover), dedicated volume control keys, 3.5 mm universal audio jack, FM radio (20 channels can be played on loudspeaker), 1150mAH battery that offers 200 hours of standby time and 6 hours and 30 minutes of talk time, accelerometer, motion sensor, handwriting recognition, 1000 contact phonebook, capacity to store 2000 SMS, photo and video caller ID, call blacklisting, multi-faith Indian calendar (helps track festivals of different Indian religions and plan holidays accordingly), stereo Bluetooth, mobile tracker, expandable memory up to 8 GB, PC Sync, modem, etc.
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