Samsung Champ Delux Duos (Price Rs 4,000)
Samsung Champ Duos, as the name suggests, is a dual SIM phone
supporting GSM networks on both the SIMs. Champ Duos also features dual
SIM standby and hence allows SIM selection so you just need to push a
button to select the SIM you want to use.
The phone has a sleek metallic finish with a 2.8 inch full
touchscreen display. Its compact size and glossy back cover make it look
stylish. It is a music centric device with stereo FM and MP3 player,
but it also has a lot of other features such as the home screen page,
which expands to multiple pages with TouchWiz lite 2.0 user interface.
The homepage comes with 13 widgets for easy access to apps. Apart
from the 2 megapixel camera, Samsung Champ Duos also has the latest
Bluetooth 2.1 with
A2DP, allowing connection to stereo Bluetooth headsets.
Champ Duos comes with USB 2.0 connectivity for data transfer between
devices and PCs, and has social networking features like ChatOn,
Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo Messenger and Gtalk, which can be accessed over
GPRS.
Samsung Hero Music (Price Rs 1,600)
This device supports two
GSM
SIM cards and has the ability to switch between them, allowing users to
choose which number they want as their primary connection and when. The
phone weights just 73 grams and has a 1000 mAh battery pack that
promises up to 11 hours of music and talk time.
There is no camera on this device but with a price tag of just Rs
1,600 and music capabilities, users will be more than happy to have this
phone. Guru Music comes with a microSD card slot supporting up to 4 GB
of memory, good enough for a large number of songs in MP3 format.
And that's not all, because Samsung Guru Music also has
Bluetooth
2.0 for wireless file transfers and wireless Bluetooth hands free
connectivity. The onboard loudspeaker complements its music capabilities
and performs well for handsfree calling as well.
Nokia C2-03 (Price Rs 4,800)
The phone comes with a refreshed touch oriented S40 operating system.
The icons and look and feel of the user interface seem to be inspired
by
Symbian Anna and look good.
C2-03 has a 2.6 inch display that offers good to great performance
for various functions, and along with that there is a 2 megapixel camera
for shutter bugs. It takes good visuals and 15 fps resolution video as
well.
On the multimedia front, Nokia C2-03 has an impressive multi format
audio player capable of playing all the known compressed formats
including AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, MP3, WMA and AMR-NB. Along with that, the FM
radio is a wonderful inclusion that performs flawlessly, delivering
stereo radio all round the city.
Micromax Superfone Lite A75 (Price Rs 8,990)
A75, which is also known as Superphone Lite, is the second phone under its Superfone series after the
A85 Tegra based Android device.
Micromax A75 comes with features like a 3.7 inch capacitive touchscreen, dual camera,
3G,
WiFi,
and Bluetooth. It features 32 GB expandable memory via microSD as well.
A75 runs on Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread and has a 650
MHz processor, which makes it one of the cheaper dual SIM Android smartphones in the market today.
Apart from being just another dual SIM device, the Micromax A75 is
also a 3G enabled smartphone and the master SIM can be used to make
video calls through its 0.3 megapixel front camera. The phone also has a
3 megapixel rear camera that is good enough for occasional snapping.
