Samsung Launches 3 New Dual Sim Phones

Samsung Electronics today announced the launch of three new Dual SIM handsets which include Samsung Star Duos GT-B7722- a 3G and 2G touch Dual-SIM Active phone, Guru Dual 25 (GT-E1225) and Guru Dual 26 (GT-E1252).

A press release quotes Ranjit Yadav, Director- Mobile & IT, Samsung Electronics, “The Dual-SIM market continues to be a strong focus area for us. We’re looking at enhancing our presence in this segment through Innovation and excellence. The new product line up is an example of the same. Samsung’s Dual – SIM offerings range from Duos, Dual – SIM Active Touch, standby and Dual – SIM shift advantage thereby giving consumers a wider choice in economical operator tariff plans and product benefits.”

The release claims that the new Samsung Star Duos is the industry’s first 3G + 2G Dual-Standby touchscreen phone.  The phone has dedicated widgets to manage switching between 2 SIM cards, and has business features and tools like Active Sync which updates e-mails from the desktop to the user’s mobile, Phone Book 2000 for organizing contacts, a Document viewer that handles MS Office, PDF TXT and other files, a multi–language dictionary and an offline mode which allows the user to turn off his/her phone while he/she continues to work on other functions.

The GT– B7722 also has 5MP AF camera with an LED flash, the FindMusic app that tracks down new song titles for download and Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP. It also comes with 250MB of internal memory, expandable up to 16GB. The phone also offers Wi-Fi support and is priced at Rs.12,300/-

The release goes on to further talk about the Samsung Guru Dual 25 (GT– E1225) and Samsung Guru Dual 26 ( GT –E 1252) have features such as stereo FM, Torch, 9 regional language support and phonebook and SMS memory to store up to 1000 contacts and messages. The Dual – SIM Shift feature of Guru Dual 25 allows users to carry 2 SIMS on the phone, however only one SIM is active at a time.

The Guru Dual 25 has a 1.8 inch QQVGA TFT screen, while Guru Dual 26 has a 2-inch QQVGA 262K TFT LCD screen. The Samsung E- 1225 is also equipped with a 3.5mm earphone jack and the Samsung Guru Dual 25 has a 800mAh battery with a rated talk time of up to 9 hours and the Samsung Guru Dual 26 has a 1000mAh with 11 hours of rated talk time. The handsets are also equipped with games, mobile prayer, Indian calendar, 40 poly ring tones, SOS message and Bike mode features.

The Samsung Guru Dual 25 (GT – E1225) is priced at: Rs. 2020/- and the Samsung Guru Dual 26 (GT – E 1252) is priced at Rs. 2240/-.