Update: As one of our readers informs, Spice has added the 'compare' functionality to compare phone specs. in the 'Research' list column. Spice Group has recently launched an online mobile phone store, dubbed as Saholic.com. In addition to mobile handsets, the portal also offers mobile accessories including batteries, Bluetooth headsets, and memory cards, among others. Spice already operates a chain of mobile retail stores, which it re-branded last year as Spice Hotspots from Hotspots, to give more visibility to the brand. The website categorizes handsets on the basis of brands and between cost segments such as high-end, low-end, basic and business phones. They can be further filtered on the basis of features and price. The site promises next day delivery for most destinations in India. This, it says is due to the fact that it manages inventory on its own. Infact, it can inform about the delivery time before a customer places an order, by his area pin-code. When we tried to short-list a Samsung Galaxy S phone, the site informed us that the delivery takes 4 days for the Central Delhi Pin-code 110001. These days, there has been a lot of talk about users coming online to research about products, rather than buying them. Spice, which also runs offline stores has tried to leverage on this aspect and has dedicated a twin-frame page for each product to enable customers to browse through its features in detail. Although, it says that the page gives a complete experience of the product, we found it limited…
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