LG Optimus 7 India price could be a dampener

Today LG launched Android 2.2 based LG Optimus One at an affordable price of Rs. 13,500. In its press release it brought lot of cheers for the Indian Windows Phone 7 aspirants by mentioning that LG Optimus 7 would be launching soon. While this definitely is a great news, all the excitement around this launch could be short lived unless LG comes out with a very aggressive pricing.

LG Optimus One
As per ebay.com currently the cheapest Buy Now listing for LG Optimus One available in USA is $332.86 which works out to Rs. 15,070 (Today's exchange rate $1 = Rs. 45.275)

LG Optimus One was launched in India today at a price of Rs. 13,500 which in value terms means it is cheaper in India than USA which surely is great.

If we were to normalize dollar value on Rs. 13,500 the exchange rate would be $1 = Rs. 40.557

LG Optimus 7
As per ebay.com currently the cheapest Buy Now listing for LG Optimus 7 available in USA is $599.00 which works out to Rs. 27,119 (Today's exchange rate $1 = Rs. 45.275)

Even if we were to consider the normalized dollar value it works out to Rs. 24,293 (Exchange rate $1 = Rs. 40.557) which surely is expensive. So there is a huge possibility that pricing for LG Optimus 7 would be Rs. 24,000. Anything less would be a sweetener.

LG Optiums 7 - December 2010 India Launch?

Today LG launched Android 2.2 based LG Optimus One at an affordable price Rs. 13,500. In its press release LG has mentioned about its growth plans for the coming year and interestingly towards the end it has following information about LG Optimus 7

LG Optimus 7 – coming soon

Another phone to create waves in the international market is the LG’s Windows® phone 7 device – Optimus 7. A direct result of LG and Microsoft’s close work together in the smartphone market, the LG Optimus 7 series offers the glance and go experience of Windows Phone 7 combined with unique features only available on the LG devices. These compelling applications — the DLNA-based Play To, augmented reality (AR) and Voice-to-Text — are available as Live Tiles on Windows Phone 7 and can be accessed via integrated “Hubs”. The phone allows users to enjoy a new era of entertainment through the introduction of Microsoft’s popular Xbox LIVE® and Zune® services. The advanced 5MP camera offers a host of technological enhancements from LG such as Intelligent Shot, which lets users, take the perfect photo without having to adjust camera settings and Panoramic Mode for stitching together a full 360-degree landscape scene. It has 3.8 inch WVGA LCD and 16GB of internal memory.


Going by the above excerpt we can comfortably say that LG will end up being the first Windows Phone 7 based mobile in India unless Samsung decides to jump the gun by launching Samsung Omnia 7. All in all a great news for all WP7 aspirants in India.

Samsung betting big on Windows Phone

In an article in AsiaOne News Head of mobile marketing in Thai, Sitthichoke Nopchinabutr has said that Samsung is betting big on Windows Phone.

He said Samsung will introduce 15 to 20 new smartphones models next year using Android, Windows Phone 7 and its own Bada operating system. For every 50 smartphones using Windows, Samsung will release 24 using Android and 5 using Bada which in percentage terms would mean 63.29% Windows based smartphones, 30.38% Android based smartphones and 6.32% Bada based smartphones.

Samsung Continuum gets its first commercial

The Samsung Continuum is up for sale in USA through Verizon. This is a new offering from Samsung which is primarily an Android 2.1 powered Galaxy S phone with a dual–display screen. Below the main 3.4" Super AMOLED screen there is a 1.8" ticker display where updates are shown in real time. This is the worlds first ticker display phone where unobtrusive updates are delivered on the Ticker display as they happen.

Following commercial shows what this wonderful masterpiece has to offer

Samsung Galaxy S i9000 price drop?

Samsung Galaxy S i9000 in amongst the best Android phones available in the market. It offers
# 4" Super AMOLED display
# Android OS v2.1 with TouchWiz 3.0 UI customization
# 1GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird CPU; 512 MB of RAM
# 5 MP autofocus camera with face, smile and blink detection
# 720p HD video recording at 30fps
# Wi-Fi 802.11 b, g and n support
# GPS with A-GPS connectivity; Digital compass
# 8GB internal storage, microSD slot
# Accelerometer and proximity sensor
# Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
# microUSB port (charging) and stereo Bluetooth v3.0
# Stereo FM radio with RDS
# 1500 mAh Li-Ion battery

Over the past few weeks we have seen dramatic drop in its price. The latest listing for a New Samsung Galaxy S on ebay.in is priced at Rs. 24,490 which not so long ago was close to Rs. 30,000. This dramatic drop in price may be attributed to a sufficient demand-supply ratio and also a possibility of new Samsung mobiles to be available in the range of Rs. 25,000 - Rs. 30,000

Some of the new mobiles we may expect in the near future are
- Samsung Continuum which is an Android 2.1 powered Samsung Galaxy S with a ticker display.
- Samsung Omnia 7 which is a Windows Phone 7 device with most features of Samsung Galaxy S.

It is most likely that Samsung Omnia 7 will be available in the Indian market in the coming 2 months and this price drop could be an indication of the same.