Spice Launches Mobile Phones

Spice has announced the launch of four mobile phones - S-500, S-404, S-555, and S-600 - in Karnataka, after its successful launches in Rajasthan, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, H.P, Western and Eastern U.P, West Bengal, Assam and Tamil Nadu.

The company has introduced these entry-level phones with prices ranging from Rs 2,499 - Rs 5,799.

The compact S-500 features speaker phone, 16 chord polyphonic ringtones, white back-light, picture messaging, singtones, 200 phonebook memory and a jog-dial for easy navigation. Its dimensions are 99mm x 43 mm x 18mm, weighs 68grams, has dual band operations, The phone has talk time up to 3 hours with a 200 hour stand-by time.

The S-404 has a metallic finish, 500 phonebook memory, white backlight, Hindi language support, speaker phone and 16 chord polyphonic ringtones. Its dimensions are 105mm x 42 mm x 19mm, weighs 65 grams, has dual band operations, talk time up to 4.5 hours and a stand-by time 130 hours.

The S-555 has 65 k color display, singtones, 64 chord polyphonic ringtones, GPRS/MMS and speaker phone. Its dimensions are 99mm x 42 mm x 17.8mm, weighs 80 grams, has dual band operations, talk time of 3 hours, 180 hours stand-by time and a phonebook capacity of 300 contacts.

The dual-band S-600 is a 65000 color GPRS phone with MP3 player, 128 MB Memory, 64 chord polyphonic ringtones, speaker phone and customizable call time alert. It is 99mmx42mmx17.8 mm in dimension, weighs 70 grams, has a talk time of 3.5 hours and stand by time of 180 hours.

K Muzaffar, Head-Sales, Spice Telecom, said, "Our strength has always been our customer service and that will continue with the same. For this we have decided that there will be a service center first set up in a city before the product is launched and made available for purchase. Our service centers are called 'After Spice' and the center is already functional in Bangalore. We have identified one regional distributor per state to carry on or distribution and sales."

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