Motorola’s, GPS, phone, India, Motoming, 1600

iPhone has triggered a touch screen and smart phone war. Since then may phones were launched. Nokia N96, Samsung Innov8, HTC are the few names. Nokia, whose core strength is not touch screen is coming up with a touch screen phone. Motorola is joining the war now. It is releasing a GPS enabled phone in India. Motoming 1600 is a GPS enabled touch screen phone. This comes in the motoming series which was released last year. It has a series of impressive features other than the sleek looks it offers. Most important feature to me is the price tag it comes with. It costs you 15847 rupees. Isn’t that impressive? I think so. All the phones which were recently launched are above 30000 range and I was looking for the prices to come down. Nokia announced that their touchscreen phone will in the 20000 range. I guess Motorola wanted to capture that market.

List of the features of Motoming 1600:

• 1 GB micros-SD card. Expandable upto 4 GB.
• No operator locking.
• Business card reader
• 3.2 megapixel camera with 8x zoom
• Bluetooth
• GPS has 540,000 unique destinations and 400,000 points of interest,
• Lifetime free navigation of maps.
• GPS can be used without a sim card.
• Landmarks of 30 cities.
• Voice guided navigation across major national and state highways.
• Maps powered by MapmyIndia.
• Runs on Linux OS
• Cheapest touchscreen phone in the market

What does it lack ?

• No 3G
• No Wi-Fi

With the 3G services just around the corner, not having a 3G is a dampener. Leaving 3G alone, this phone looks like a poor man’s iPhone with added GPS navigation.