Samsung India launched its UltraTouch smart-phone that comes with a wide touch-screen and 8 mega pixel camera. The company has tied with Bharat Sanchar Nigam(BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam(MTNL) to bundle its handsets with their recently launched 3G services.
Priced at Rs. 27,500, the new touch-screen phone offers hi-speed internet access, video telephony, streaming and multimedia services.
The phone features an 8 megapixel camera unit with dual power LED flash and smile shot mode. Other features include GPS navigation, geo-tagging via the GPS chip that allows you to tag photos with geographic information, 30fps VGA video recording and HSDPA 7.2 Mbps.
The Samsung Ultra Touch provides users a tweaked Touch Wiz interface with support for Mobile widgets as well. The Widgets can be dragged and placed on the screen for one-click access to your favorite applications. As for storage, there is 80 MB of onboard memory, with support for Micro SD cards up to 16GB.
Samsung now has a wide range of high-end, touchscreen devices with advanced imaging abilities with the likes of the i900 Omnia, F480, the Pixon and now, the S8300 Ultra making the company a force to reckon with in this arena. All these devices are 3G capable.
“Samsung ‘UltraTouch’ leads the portfolio of our high-end phone and it will further enhance our leadership in the premium full-touch market,” said Samsung India President and CEO Jung Soo Shin after launching the new phone here.
According to Sunil Dutt, Samsung Telecom Division’s Country Head, “With this latest offering, we now have four touch-screen phones in the Indian market.”
The entire portfolio of Samsung touch-screen phones is 3G enabled and priced between Rs. 17,790 and Rs. 32,200.
“We will be further strengthening our touch-screen portfolio in the coming months with more innovative launches. Based on the enhancement of our touch-screen and the multimedia phone portfolio, we hope multimedia phone segment to contribute 40-45 per cent of our total sales in 2009,” he said.
Mr. Dutt said Samsung was giving a special bundling offer for BSNL consumers on its select handsets to allow them to experience the full benefit of 3G services. “The special offer on Samsung phones — F480, L700 J800 and S7330 — in BSNL circles entails free SIM card, free airtime and free data downloads for pre-paid and post-paid customers,” he added.
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Joshua April 4, 2009 at 10:05 am
Sanjay which model comes with Rs 17,790?
Peater April 3, 2009 at 11:11 pm
If you want a digital camera go for it, this is not a phone guys it’s a digital camera
Ravi Kumar April 3, 2009 at 7:59 pm
27,500 would be too costly..It should be brought down to 15k. Then only there will be takers in india..
jana April 3, 2009 at 7:12 pm
already the samsung battery wonnt be tht much capacity
offcourse tht too becaz of tht clarity screen
i donnt know how come for this serious
big?
Neha nair April 3, 2009 at 6:21 pm
The phone doesn’t look like an Rs27000 phone.
Nidhi Razdan April 3, 2009 at 7:52 am
Flip I hate it and even the clour of the phone look very clumsy
Jeevan April 2, 2009 at 6:23 pm
One nice phone by samsung….We were content with the S8300’s reception quality, although it wasn’t much different from other phones in this class. The ring tones volume was pretty average, and we even missed some calls when the phone was stuffed in a bag. The vibro alert was nothing to shout about either, as it hadn’t changed at all, compared the PIXON. The fact that there are two microphones housed on the S8300 makes your voice quality quite decent even when making a call on a busy street.