Moto G India launch details to be announced on February 5 Motorola

Motorola, putting an end to speculation about the Moto Gs India launch, has confirmed it will announce the budget smartphone for the country on February 5.

Motorola confirmed the news on Twitter and said, "Moto G launch details for India will be announced on February 5. Stay tuned!" Unfortunately, the Google-owned company has revealed no details about the pricing of the Moto G for the Indian market.

Motorola officially unveiled the Moto G smartphone at an event in Sao Paulo, Brazil in November last year. The Motorola Moto G has been said to be available in at least 30 countries with 60 Google partners by 2014.

The Moto G is currently on sale in Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Peru, UK, Germany, France, and Canada and is now also available in selective countries in Latin America, Europe and Asia.

(Also see: Moto G review)

The Motorola Moto G is available with no contract, no SIM lock and an unlockable bootloader at $179 (Rs. 11,300 approximately) for the 8GB storage model in US, while the 16GB variant is available at $199 (Rs. 12,600 approximately). Notably, there is no option for expandable storage available.

Recently, Motorolas chief executive Dennis Woodside on price strategy was quoted saying, "There will be different phones at different price points but were going to be very aggressive there."

An earlier report has already indicated that Motorola will launch a dual-SIM variant of the Moto G in India.

Motorola announced the Android 4.4.2 KitKat update over-the-air (OTA) for its Moto G budget smartphone in December last year.

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Mxit mobile instant messenger launched in India with Hindi support

Mxit, South Africas largest mobile social network, on Tuesday launched its mobile instant messenger application in India.

The company rolled out its free service in Hyderabad at a news conference in the presence of its ambassador, former South African cricketer Gary Kirsten.

Sam Rufus Nallaraj, CEO of Mxit India Pvt Ltd, said Mxit enables users to avail services on feature phones which otherwise are available only on smartphones.

With 700 million out of 900 million mobile users in India having feature phones, Mxit would be a major and innovative player in India, which is worlds largest feature phone market, he said. "Our service turns even a normal phone into a smartphone," he said.

A basic data connection enables a feature phone user to experience smartphone features by downloading the Mxit app for free. An array of apps and games will be available for any Mxit user.

Mxit is available for download across more than 8,000 different feature phones, smartphones and tablets

Mxit offers not just one to one, and one to many chat features, but also facilitates many to many chat. The service is currently available in English and Hindi will also available in 10 different Indian languages including Telugu in six months.

Available on Java, Nokia, iOS, Android, Blackberry and Window Phone operating systems, it allows over 300 characters as compared to 140 characters in a SMS.

Roger Grobler, chairman of Mxit India, said 46 percent of mobile Internet users in South Africa are active on Mxit every month. He claimed that Mxit is rivalled only by Facebook in terms of the number of makes and models of mobile phones it can operate on.

Kirsten, the coach of Indian team which won the 2011 World Cup, said he was excited to be associated with an app developed in his home country and being launched in India, which he considers his second home.

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Bharti Airtel and HTC bring First Android Powered Phone to India

HTC Magic has become India’s first Android phone, as HTC and Bharti Airtel announced its upcoming availability in the world’s second largest mobile market.

The Indian Magic comes in an interesting red/black color version

Other than that, its features are similar to the ones of the original Magic, including: Android 1.5 OS, 3.2 inch HVGA touchscreen display, G-sensor, 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS, web browser, email and a 3.2 autofocus camera with video recording.

Customers will be able to find the HTC Magic at Airtel Relationship Centres and authorised HTC resellers in 17 important Indian towns.

The retail price of HTC Magic is of 29,900 ($616). Airtel’s subscribers who buy the smartphone will be provided with 100MB/month of free data download, for 6 months.

HTC Magic was recently announced in the US too, branded as T-Mobile MyTouch 3G, and it will be introduced soon in many other markets around the world. So it’s no wonder that HTC plans to sell the smartphone in 1 million units by the end of the summer.

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