BSNL "BHARAT READY PHONE" price 1700

World best and lower cost phone
BSNL launched an internet ready phone for Rs
1,799 and a tablet and two smartphones costing
between Rs 7,000 and Rs 8,000.
NEW DELHI: State-run telecom services provider BSNL
launched an internet ready phone for Rs 1,799 and a
tablet and two smartphones costing between Rs 7,000
and Rs 8,000 in association with Pantel Technologies
on Friday.
Termed as BharatPhone, the Rs 1,799 costing dual-SIM
handset with a 3-inch display screen will be marketed
as a internet-ready feature phone with the ability to
access e-governance services like mobile banking, tele-
medical care delivery and streaming data delivery. An
1800 mAh Lithium-Ion battery that delivers upto 8 hrs
of talk time and 15 days standby time. The handset
targeted at rural India will come bundled with 1200
minutes of free talk time split over 12 months.
BSNL CMD, R K Upadhyay said, "Products like the
Penta Bharat Phone will now offer the Indian consumer
the power of Internet access at an affordable price.
Likewise, with the highly affordable 3G Penta Smart
device, the PS650, BSNL can now look forward to
offering its world-class 3G data services to a wide cross
section of Indian society."
The 7-inch tablet costing Rs 6,999 will come with 3 GB
of 3G data and 300 minutes of free talk time. The
Android tablet offers multiple user-environment on a
single tablet PC allowing each user to set his own
screen interface and personalized applications.
Like the smartphones, the tablet will have pre-loaded
anti-malware pre-loaded and will be available on
HomeShop18, the online retail partner
The smartphone range starts from Rs 6,999 with PS501
that comes with 15 GB cloud storage and 4GB of
internal storage, 5 megapixel panoramic rear camera,
GPS and gesture motion texting.
The second smartphone PS650 costs Rs 7,999 comes
with a 6.5 inch screen with a 2500 mAh battery
supporting 100 hrs standby time and hosts of
applications that ru on Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean
software. Features like gesture typing; speech to text,
quick navigation screen, voice based search and
Google Now, will be available on this handset.