Bharti Airtel recently introduced the Android powered HTC Magic in India, with a few India-specific applications, including Hello Tune Manager, Portfolio Manager, Mobshare, In-mobile search and City Search. The handset is priced at Rs. 29,900 - quite steep - but in order to encourage usage of data, Airtel is offering its customers 100 MB of free data download per month, for 6 months. Both Airtel and HTC will retail the handset, covering 17 cities, including: Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Pune, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Coimbatore, Cochin, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Lucknow, Bhubaneswar and Patna. Indian Applications On The HTC Magic The Airtel applications available with HTC Magic have been provided by CanvasM, a joint venture between Motorola and Tech Mahindra. There are no charges for downloading the applications, but there are charges that will be applicable in some cases after a trial period. The HTC Magic also allows Microsoft Exchange server synchronisation for email, calendar and contacts. Some of the applications that have been launched with the handset: -- Portfolio Manager: is an application for providing information related to the Indian share market. HTC users are being offered a trial period of 3 months, worth Rs. 297. The portfolio manager is powered by MaxMobility. -- Hello Tunes Manager: Hello Tunes manager is something of a marketplace for Caller Ring Back Tones (CRBTs), which allows subscribers to search, buy, rate and share hello tunes. HTC Magic users get free Hello Tune downloads for one month. The Hello Tunes manager is powered by…
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