Phones sporting a unique design grab a lot of attention from the techno buffs.These phones have something which is never seen before. According to Unwiredview, the Motorola Backflip ME600 handset is available for purchase on the company’s official Motostore website for China.

The phone appears to feature a 3.1” touchscreen that proffers display resolutions of 320 x 480p. It will run Google’s Android mobile OS with Motoblur and feature a full QWERTY keyboard. A Qualcomm processor is expected to be housed within the device along with 256MB RAM.

The phone’s connectivity options span over HSDPA, Wi-Fi and includes WAPI support. It possesses GPS and integrates a 5MP auto focus camera. Apart from that, the device is also speculated to host a 3.5mm headset jack and use a 1400mAh Li-ion battery.

Motorola’s Backflip ME600 flaunts a curious clamshell-like exterior design and is expected to debut in the U.S. via AT&T this March. It is touted to be available across China at 4,298 yuan (approx. Rs.27,831) with an 8GB memory card and car charger.

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Fly Mobile has announced the launch and availability of its all new QWERTY key pad dual-SIM phone, the Fly Circle (model no.B430DS) in India.

It is being targeted as a device that supports multiple instant messaging networks and is social networking friendly as well, featuring Nimbuzz, Skype, Windows Live Messenger, GTalk, Yahoo!, AIM, MySpace, ICQ and others. At the heart of Nimbuzz is the live contact list – an always-on, hyper-connected, dynamic address book, enhanced with “real-time-presence” showing at a glance who’s online, offline, busy or away, their status messages, and social community activity.

Prem Kumar, Chief Executive Officer, Fly Mobile (India Operations), said, “Fly Circle has an unbeatable combination of dual-SIM, QWERTY key pad, Nimbuzz and Snaptu applications bundled in one phone. This sleek and stylish ‘flaunt-it’ phone with multimedia features and all-in-one messenger and all-in-one social networking is sure to become the cynosure amidst all urban and tech-savvy youth in the 18-30 years of age bracket (college and office going), and all who are young at heart, who’d like to use its applications on the go. We want to position it as the final word when it comes to one-stop instant messaging and social networking. It will be launched in the metros and mini-metro cities initially along with all SEC A and B class towns.”

The thing this device would be famous for is its resemblence to a BlackBerry! In fact, at first glance you would easily mistake the B430DS for a much more expensive Blackberry (actually many times). Many times? Yes, as the Blackberry look alike Fly Circle will sell at a mere Rs. 3,849.

Now for the features. What you get for your hard-earned 3,849 bucks is listed below:

• 2.2 inch QVGA Display with 262k colors (Their website states the resolution is 176 x 220 pixels)
• 10 MB Internal Memory
• 1000 contact phonebook
• microSD card support upto 8GB
• 1.3 megapixel camera
• Opera Mini Browser
• SMS Blacklisting
• FM Radio with scheduled record and play
• Bluetooth
• GPRS/WAP/MMS Support
• Video Recording
• 9 hours of talk time
• 1100Mah Battery
• 104 grams

That, for less than 4,000 rupees, does sound like a super deal. We’ll have to wait and watch how well this one performs to pass a verdict. But this definitely has to be the cheapest QWERTY keyboard phone in the Indian market today.

If hearkened to the world of beguiling mobile phones, then would have witnessed a loud wham some time back. Well, Tata Docomo and Research In Motion have recently unleashed the Blackberry Curve 8520 smartphone in India. Enticingly, the latest in the Blackberry Curve family proffers phone bugs a reason to ‘do the new’ with a myriad of eye-catching features.

The alluring smartphone offers users a stirring mobile experience with effortless mobile access to email, messaging, social networking sites and mobile internet. Among sturdy multimedia features, the handset features a music and video player alongside camera with video recording.

“Tata Docomo recently rolled out its BlackBerry solution and has received an enthusiastic response. When we launched our BlackBerry services, we had promised our subscribers that we would bring them the best products and services. Living up to that brand promise, we are launching the stylish new BlackBerry Curve8520 smartphone for our customers. The major attraction of theBlackBerry Curve 8520 is that it brings the exceptional BlackBerry smartphone experience within the reach of a larger population,” stated Pradeep Dwivedi, Senior Vice President, Tata Teleservices Limited.

Showing off its satiny and glossy body, the swanky Blackberry Curve 8520 comes integrated with an innovative touch-sensitive trackpad, which makes scrolling and selection quite smooth and easy for a great navigation experience. Whereas, its dedicated media keys that are smoothly emplaced along the top of the handset offers users a facile and convenient way to control their music and videos.

“The BlackBerry Curve 8520 is a sleek, stylish and approachable smartphone with a compelling mix of features. We believe this amazing new model, with its new trackpad navigation system and integrated multimedia features, will attract a broad range of mobile customers to the BlackBerry services offered on the Tata Docomo network,” remarked Frenny Bawa, Vice President India,Research In Motion.

In addition to a highly tactile full-QWERTY keyboard for comfortable and accurate typing, the 8520 smartphone subsumes full HTML browsing, built-in Wi-Fi and offers nearly 4.5 hours of talk time and 17 days of standby time.

Users can snap up the tempting Blackberry Curve 8520 for Rs. 14,990.