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Thursday, May 25, 2006

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Samsung partners Tata Indicom

Launches website for online advertising of Wideo

— Photo: Kamal Narang

BROAD SMILE AND WIDE SCREEN: HyunChul Ryu, Managing Director, Samsung Telecommunications India, Pvt Ltd., with Bollywood actress, Tanushree Dutta, displaying the wide screen CDMA phones, Wideo, in New Delhi on Wednesday.

NEW DELHI: In order to strengthen its handset portfolio, CDMA services provider, Tata Indicom along with Samsung Telecommuncations Pvt. Ltd. on Wednesday unveiled Wideo, a new wide screen mobile handset.

``Samsung Wideo has been designed to provide multimedia experience to the users. The phone offers 262K TFT horizontal swivel screen, 1 mega pixel rotating camcoder with up to two hours of video recording, dual stereo speakers, 3D gaming, MP3 player, speaker phone and a pen drive memory with 45 MB storage space,'' Samsung India Vice President and Head, Hyunbai Kim, said.

Wideo also supports multimedia communications with multimedia messaging capability to send and receive video clips and has built-in modem for internet access up to 144 kpbs.

``We expect to fuel the growth of the CDMA industry in the Indian market through consistent launch of innovative products,'' Samsung Telecommunications Managing Director, H. C. Ryu, said. Priced at Rs. 21,999, Wideo will come with 60*365 offer of Tata Teleservices, entailing the consumer to 60 minutes of local/STD outgoing calls free for every day for a period of one year. Samsung also launched a website for online advertising of Wideo. — UNI

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