HTC and Microsoft India today announced the launch of first Windows 7.5 Mango smartphone, HTC Radar in Indian market for Rs.23990 (MRP Rs.25490).
Windows 7.5 Mango OS based HTC Radar sports a 3.8-inch LCD touch screen display and is powered by a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor. It’s been fitted by a rather large 3.8” LCD touchscreen display complete with a virtual QWERTY keyboard.
Sleek and stylish HTC Radar has 512 RAM, 8GB of on-board storage and 5 Mega pixel BSI CMOS camera with LED Flash which is capable of recording 720p HD videos. There is a VGA front facing camera for video chat. A committed camera button rounds off the feature list here as users can now click away even when the phone is locked.
The HTC Radar truck-loaded with exciting features experiences such as search, Gaming, Email and social networks across Bing, Office, Xbox LIVE, Facebook, Twitter and more. The device completely integrated Microsoft Exchange and calendar alongside the Microsoft Office Hub are among the various niceties users can expect. Users can also navigate the web efficiently thanks to Internet Explorer 9.
The device equipped with G-sensor, proximity sensor, and ambient light sensor as well. While as connectivity option, it has Bluetooth, WiFi, 3G HSPA ( 14.4 Mbps download speed) and GPRS/EDGE options.
It packs 1520 mAh non-removable battery, which is claimed to last up to 10 hours of talk-time on GSM and up to 8 hours on 3G/WCDMA network.
Rohan Singh October 13, 2011 at 1:14 pm
Yes it’s March ….Till then every other company will launch windows 8 & Nokia will launch windows 7.5 & android will launch 4.3.
Azk October 13, 2011 at 12:25 pm
htc once again with same old look like that of sensation.change the design.
Azk October 13, 2011 at 12:23 pm
is nokia launching windows phone 8 directly?any buyers?
Amit.G October 13, 2011 at 11:21 am
@Vikas Patidar
Its a symbian belle phone. Same 1Ghz processor and 512MB RAM.
Vikas Patidar October 13, 2011 at 10:58 am
@Rohan Singh For your information:
Times Of India article says Nokia Windows Phone will be launched in March 2012 not in May.
Vikas Patidar October 13, 2011 at 10:55 am
No official Nokia Windows Phone launch before Nokia World event of this year. All these are rumors for the time being.
Amit.G October 13, 2011 at 10:49 am
@Rohan Singh
yes its not windows phone..
Rohan Singh October 13, 2011 at 10:18 am
And it’s not a windows phone.
Amit.G October 13, 2011 at 9:09 am
Nokia is going to launch New Nokia 603 Smartphone shortly. Design is pretty decent & spec is same as 701!!
Vikas Patidar October 13, 2011 at 1:14 am
Considering India as emerging market Nokia may not be going to launch first batch of Windows Phone here because current specs of all Windows Phones are higher and result in more then average prices phones. I don’t think here is a huge adoption for such high end devices rather then the continents like Europe and North America.
May be before Feb-March 2012 we can expect a Windows Phones with lower specifications (Smaller display, less camera resolution, less internal storage etc) and hence less starting price (something like starting from 8-10K INR). So that would be a mainstream target to lure the consumers which usually can’t afford high end devices.
Hence Samsung and HTC has already announced their Windows Phones so it is going to be tough competition and we may see a price drops from all the venders. But due to strong distribution channels across the world Nokia may debut their Windows Phones very soon.
Vikas Patidar October 12, 2011 at 11:15 pm
I think non removable means simply it can not be removed on the fly but it can be simply replaced when battery is no more working but may be you need to go for customer support.
All new high end phones are coming with compact and stunning design and they are following the same strategy to meet this requirements. I Phone 4S , Nokia N9 are also having the same design model. Additionally all the phones are coming with the Power Button as well as Hot swap SIM card feature then there is no point of giving such further flexibilities.
Rohan Singh October 12, 2011 at 11:06 pm
Where is Nokia ‘s windows phone … The agreement between Microsoft & Nokia has taken already a lot of time and HTC & Samsung are coming up with windows phone but Nokia is still sleeping with their windows phone. According to TOI Nokia will launch their first windows phone in May 2012 in India. Till then Samsung & HTC will have enough windows phone market share and will be established in windows too ….Nokia always late …..so we loosed fate.
rahulraj October 12, 2011 at 9:42 pm
+1
Amit.G October 12, 2011 at 9:10 pm
@Ganesh
But now Microsoft has taken Mobile OS very seriously… It is said that microsoft is spending lot of money in supporting developers & plans to include around 1000000 apps in next few months.
Symbian again failed to impress mobile users, Nokia Symbian belle phones are not selling like samsung & HTC Andro phones!! The main reason is failure of Nokia to market the OS in a effective way. 90% of smartphone users still think that Symbian belle is same as Symbian3
Ganesh October 12, 2011 at 7:05 pm
Windows mango looks nice. But it doesn’t have enough applications like Symbian or iOS or Andriod!
@amit
2200mah? Phones with more battery power will be large and heavy! Spice mobiles may pack even 3000mAH into their brick of a mobile phone!
ishan October 12, 2011 at 6:22 pm
huh ,, i’ll hack into 6.5 n update to 7.5 ,, without ne cost
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hahaha , thnx to the DFT
amit October 12, 2011 at 5:59 pm
what is this non removable battery? means its battery can not be changed at all if it wears out in 1-2 year? and why such heavy phones (in terms of power hungry configuration) contains only 1500mAH or soo batter? why cant such phone comes with 2200mAH or so.. ? even spiece like companies are packing there cheap phones with heavy battery….
Amit.G October 12, 2011 at 5:58 pm
Looks stylish,windows 7.5 seems to be very good OS as all the tech sites are praising about its performance & User experience!!!
Kazz October 12, 2011 at 5:30 pm
nice phone..