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Bharti Airtel and HTC Corporation announced the launch of India’s first Android-powered mobile phone The HTC Magic.

The Android-powered HTC Magic opens new arena for customers and the developer community to interact in order to bring new applications to Android-based phones.

“The HTC Magic presents a powerful mobile internet and multimedia experience that should drive the uptake of accessing the internet over mobile amongst Airtel users,” said, Raghunath Mandava, chief marketing officer, mobile services, Bharti Airtel.

HTC Magic opens up a new mobile experience. A tablet-style device, with a sleek design and compactness for a smartphone, the HTC Magic presents an enhanced mobile internet and multimedia experience.

The HTC Magic comes equipped with Outlook synchronisation, Smart Dialler and an onscreen keyboard with predictive text.

To begin with, Airtel customers can avail many utility based applications such as Portfolio Manager, Hello Tune Manager, Weather Channel, Mobshare, In-mobile search and City Search on the HTC Magic.

For Airtel customers, HTC Magic allows free data download of 100 MB per month for a period of six months. The HTC Magic will be available at a market price of Rs. 29,900 at Airtel Relationship Centres and authorised HTC resellers in 17 cities. The cities include Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Pune, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Coimbatore, Cochin, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Lucknow, Bhubaneswar, Patna.

The Android platform constitutes a set of software for mobile devices: an operating system, middleware and key mobile applications. Developed by the Open Handset Alliance, a group of 47 technology and mobile companies, Android brings Internet-style innovation and openness to mobile phones and enables developers to create mobile applications to optimise the functionalities of the mobile phone. Android does not differentiate between the phone’s core applications and third-party applications, thus providing users with a broad spectrum of applications and services.

Airtel applications available with HTC Magic

Portfolio Manager: Portfolio Manager is Mobile Client application to provide general public a secured and user friendly service platform. Its objective is to facilitate investors in Indian share market to manage their portfolio.

Hello Tunes Manager: Hello Tunes Manager will be used by subscribers to search for, buy and share hello tunes/hello tune albums. You can use Hello Tunes Manager to send/receive hello tune recommendations from friends, rate hello tunes.

Weather Channel: This application provides weather forecasts for the current day and next six days. Any location of user’s choice can be marked as favorite. The user can obtain weather forecast for (a) Current location (b) Favorite location (c) Any other location of choice.

Mobshare: MobShare is a Mobile phone picture sharing Application that enables sharing of mobile pictures, and browsing, of the shared Pictures.

In-Mobile Search: This application enables the user to search for contacts, image files, audio files and video files from a single interface. The user can search any of the above mentioned files starting with the query string entered. It provides the user to view the image or play the audio / video files without the use of any external applications.

City Search: This application incorporates both location and data call technology. For the selected category, the application retrieves appropriate list of options for any location review. The application provides the full information (address, contact number and other information) for any selected option. User also has an option to call the selected option or SMS the info from the application.

Features of HTC Magic

* HTC Magic features a trackball with zoom in/out function. It is also equipped with fit-the-width rendering, and auto screen rotation for an easier navigation experience and internet browsing.

The HTC Magic has a 3.2″ HVGA touch screen display and features a trackball for easy access and a 3.2 mega-pixel camera. It provides full fidelity PC browsing experience, where users can expand and personalise their phone to fit their lifestyle.

* HTC Magic is enhanced with HTC goodies like Smart Dialler and an on-screen keyboard. Smart Dialler lets you call people in whatever way you like, by either dialling the phone number or by dialling the first few letters of the name of the contact. The versatile keyboard helps to choose the favourite way to type and the predictive text completion helps in typing faster.

* HTC Magic allows Microsoft Exchange server synchronisation for email, calendar and contacts.