Vodafone brings Rs. 6K Android “Smart” phone to India!

Have you heard about “Vodafone Smart”? It is essentially a low cost Android smartphone which was launched in Europe few months back. And now it seems that Vodafone plans to bring it to India and enter the “Cheap Android Smartphone” race giving likes of Micromax and others some competition in that category.

According to androidos blog, the Vodafone smart will cost in the range of 6000 to 7000 rupees and given the specs, Vodafone Smart does have potential to make headway in low cost smartphone market which has been growing quite aggressively over past year or so.

Vodafone Smart

Vodafone Smart comes with Android 2.2, 528 MHz ARM processor, 2.8 inch QVGA capacitive display, 2MP camera, aGPS, HSDPA and Bluetooth 2.1.

Generally, phones in this range have resistive screens, but VOdafone Smart has capacitive which is definitely a plus !

Full Specifications (Via gsmarena)

GENERAL	2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
	3G Network	HSDPA 2100
	Announced	2011, May
	Status	Available. Released 2011, June

SIZE	Dimensions	103.8 x 56.8 x 12.6 mm
	Weight	104 g

DISPLAY	Type	TFT capacitive touchscreen, 256K colors
	Size	240 x 320 pixels, 2.8 inches
		– Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate – Proximity sensor

SOUND	Alert types	Vibration, MP3 ringtones
	Loudspeaker	Yes
	3.5mm jack	Yes

MEMORY	Phonebook	Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
	Call records	Practically unlimited
	Internal	130 MB storage
	Card slot	microSD, up to 32GB, buy memory

DATA	GPRS	Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps
	EDGE	Class 10, 236.8 kbps
	3G	HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps
	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, Wi-Fi hotspot
	Bluetooth	Yes v2.1 with A2DP
	Infrared port	No
	USB	Yes, microUSB v2.0

CAMERA	Primary	2 MP, 1600×1200 pixels
	Features	Geo-tagging
	Video	Yes
	Secondary	No

FEATURES	OS	Android OS, v2.2 (Froyo)
	CPU	528 MHz ARM 11 processor, Adreno 200 GPU, Qualcomm MSM7225 chipset
	Messaging	SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM
	Browser	HTML
	Radio	Stereo FM radio with RDS
	Games	Yes
	Colors	White, Black, custom graphic designs
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS support
	Java	Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
		– Vodafone Music – Digital compass – Google Search, Maps, Gmail, Talk – MP3/WMA/eAAC+ player – MP4/H.263/H.264 player – Organizer – Photo viewer/editor – Voice memo/dial/commands – Predictive text input (Swype)

 

Vodafone Smart is essentially a rebranded Huawei device, similar to many other android phones launched by Indian Phone manufacturers as well.