Reiterating India’s strategic importance and its commitment to the growing number of smartphone users here, DELL today announced the launch of its Venue and Venue Pro 3G smartphones at the Bangalore Fashion week.
Both latest 3G smartphones from Dell are now available in India on all GSM/3G networks. Venue and Venue Pro users on the Aircel network will enjoy exclusive privileges of Free 2 GB Mobile Internet as a preferred partnership between Dell and Aircel, a leading telecom player with Pan India operations.
The Android 2.2 Froyo OS based DELL Venue priced at Rs.29990 which has a vibrant, high-contrast 10.4 cm (4.1-inch) AMOLED display with curved Gorilla Glass technology.The Venue’s elliptical, slender form factor feels great in hand and also slips easily into the pocket.
It has 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 processor with 512MB RAM and 1GB ROM. Venue also comes fully equipped with today’s necessary business features including support for ActiveSync and QuickOffice. The combination of high speed access and Swype for fast text input makes viewing e-mail, editing documents, and surfing the web fast and easy.
The 3.5G enabled smartphone Dell Venue comes with 8 mega pixel camera with auto focus and 4x Zoom. Other features of the smartphone includes WiFi (802.11 b/g/n), Bluetooth 2.1, A-GPS, Gravity Sensor, E Compass, and 1400mAh battery.
The DELL Venue Pro priced at Rs.34990 is slider phone runs on Microsoft Windows Phone 7 mobile OS. Powered by a 1 GHz Qualcomm CPU, the Dell Venue Pro supports quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE as well as triband UMTS/HSDPA-3G (7.2 Mbps)/HSUPA (5.76 Mbps) at 900/1700/2100 MHz, WiFi b/g , 5 mega pixel auto focus camera and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR. The 4.1″ Gorilla Glass protected AMOLED touchscreen supports the Windows Phone 7 typical WVGA resolution.
Speaking on the launch of new smartphones, Mr. Mahesh Bhalla, Executive Director & General Manager, Dell India said, “Our strategy is to continue creating smart, innovative and new mobile experiences to help people discover new ways to enjoy the web, connect with friends, and navigate their lives. Following Dell’s purpose, to give our customers the power to do more, the Venue – with Android 2.2 and Venue Pro – our first Windows Phone 7 smartphone, gives customers a fresh new way to meet everyday social and professional commitments in a sleek and attractive form factor, and for the best value.”
doc_dip February 4, 2011 at 9:46 am
see how microsoft is sucking oem (here dell) and in turn oem(dell here) is sucking money from us or customer….see the hardware compromise on dell venue pro just to show win7phone on its screen…and guess what its even more pricey…thats demonstrate why windows based phones WERE super flops and how it will be again… and it clearly demonstrate the microsoft’s non-committment to smartphone os…
kochikkaran February 3, 2011 at 7:37 pm
sanjay ji, i would like to know a mid end (rs 10k to 20k) android phone with video calling …. i think it is very rare to see one…. nokia is good at mid range video calling smart phones…
kochikkaran February 3, 2011 at 7:37 pm
sanjay ji, i would like to know a mid end (rs 10k to 20k) android phone with video calling …. i think it is very rare to see one….
Sanjay Bafna February 3, 2011 at 5:57 pm
both devices are 3.5G enabled
Amit.G February 3, 2011 at 5:49 pm
So dell venue is 3G enabled or no??? only dell venue pro’s 3G band is mentioned!!!