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Micromax, the leading Indian mobile handset manufacturer announced the launch of its first gaming-centric Dual Band GSM mobile phone dubbed as Micromax G4 The company claims the its new mobile phone brings the Gamolutionva gaming revolution in Indian handset market.
Micromax G4 specially tailored for Mobile Gaming wherein user can play a little experience the 4 motion sensors to play games on themobile phone. The handset comes with separate CD of games installed with 4 free motion controlled games with Gaming Console.
TATA Indicom, today announced the launch of Micromax handset priced at just Rs. 1699. The stylish Micromax C112 Color FM handset is now available with Tata Indicom’s ‘Pay Per Second’ offering for its prepaid customers across circles.
With the Micromax C112 Color FM handset prepaid customers can get a new Tata Indicom connection absolutely free along with 200 minutes talktime with per second billing option.
Micromax is now India’s third-largest GSM mobile phone vendor with a market share of 6 percent after Nokia (62 percent) and Samsung (8 percent), according to research firm IDC. It sells anywhere from 700,000 to one million mobile phones every month. And by its own estimates it is now selling nearly Rs.1,500 crore worth of phones annually.
“We are not the poor cousins of Nokia,” says Vikas Jain, one of the four friends who together started and grew Micromax to its present position. “Instead we will force Nokia to launch newer products to compete with us.”
Micromax Q5, the latest upcoming mobile phone from Micromax with Full QWERTY keypad and Trackball Navigation. The Micromax Q5 comes with 2.2 inch QVGA Screen and has 2 mega pixels camera.
The Micromax Q5 is a bar styled, Dual SIM (GSM)-Dual-Band mobile phone. The handset has integrated FM Radio, games, video player and supports multiple music formats.
Private equity major TA Associates has picked up a minority stake in domestic handset maker Micromax for about Rs 225 crore, a top company official with the cellphone company told ET. While the exact stake amount could not ascertained, the 
Micromax executive added that it was less than 20%, valuing the handset maker at about Rs 1,000 crore.
The fund raised will help Micromax expand its handset business to Africa and Latin America. The company is set to launch operations in Nepal later this month, after which it plans to kick off its Africa operations in February-end and also launch in Latin America before the end of this fiscal.
Micromax, the leading Indian mobile handset manufacturer announced the launch of Micromax C350, the first Indian OMH (Open Market Handset) compliant CDMA2000 phone was launched in Hong Kong.
The revolutionary OMH technology, available on the CDMA2000 platform, gives mobile customers the flexibility to buy a CDMA2000 handset and relevant SIM cards from any CDMA2000 operator of their choice. The OMH-compliant Micromax C350, powered by Qualcomm’s QSC6020™ chipset, offers 2MP camera, motion sensor, 2.4″ 262K colour QVGA screen, stereo FM radio, multi format music player, video recorder/player, Bluetooth 2.0, and expandable memory (up to 4GB).
Zen Mobile, which recently launched its pan-India operations under the Zen Mobile brand, has named Vaibhav Shastri as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO). In this new role, he will lead the national launch of Zen Mobile and look towards strengthening the position of the company across the country.
M TV the most popular music channel partners with Micromax the well known Indian mobile handset brand and announced the launch of a new range of Music domninetd mobile handsets with best music on 3-D surround sound.
M TV today introduces X360 model Mobile Phone which has priced at a maximum retail price of Rs 5000 but Micromax Executive Director Rahul Sharma said it would be sold at the market operating price of just Rs 3750.
It is almost reminiscent of the times when Indian brands like Santosh, Optonica and the likes ruled the television market. Mobile phones made or assembled in India are catching up in the city and how! And the only thing drawing the common man to these mobiles is the promise of the same features as in phones of the better known and international brands, but at a lesser price.
The most common of these brands seems to be Karbonn, eTouch, Maxx, Intex and MicroMax. One may recognise the last two brands from other industries. Of these, Intex is a well known name in the world of computers, because it manufactures computer hardware and peripherals like sound systems, keyboards and mice.
Talk about being different! A Gurgaon based company has launched Micromax x1i mobile phone that has a stand-by time of 30 days or an enormous 17 hours of talk time! The closest competition is LG’s KP199 “Dynamite” mobile phone that prides itself with a talk time of 10 hours.
