Spice Mobile a subsidiary of Idea Cellular brings cheapest Android based mobile phones in India by launching a few of handsets. Spice launched MI 700 Android based tablet and two Android mobile phone namely MI 300 and MI 410. These mobiles starts with an introductory price of Rs 9,990. While Spice MI 300 mobile phone is launched into the market, the other two MI 410 mobile phone and MI 700 Android tablet are just announced.
The Spice MI 300 is a 3.2″ touchscreen mobile phone which incorporates Android v 2.1 for mobiles operating system. Being a 3G mobile handsets, it has GPS, Wi-Fi & other features like like Google Mobile Services, accelerometer and proximity sensor. This handset is also powered by a amazing 5 Mega Pixel camera too. It has got 600 MHz processor and supports Micro SD card expansion expandable up to 32GB in memory.
The sale of MI 300 has began and it is available at Spice Hotspot outlets in cities and towns across the country priced at Rs 9990, will soon be available at other distributors. By the end of October-November this year Spice MI 700 tablet and MI 410 would also be available to the customers.
Nicely designed MI 410 is an impressive mobile phone with its capability of High Definition video recording and playback on 4.1″ HVGA capacitive display screen. It will also come with features like Wi-Fi, 3G, Bluetooth 3.0, A-GPS, Google Mobile Services, Microsoft Office, push mail. It is said that MI 410 will be priced at little lesser than Rs 20,000 in India.
MI 700 is a tablet, first of its being kind on Spice mobile which has Android V 2.2 and 7″ HVGA touch screen. It incorporates MSM 7227 chipset from Qualcomm and it has features like memory card slot, USB data interfaces, Dual Camera for video calls on 3G network which are mostly not found on famous tablets.
So the question on the mind of many customers is that will this mobiles be a copy cut of china phones or will offer good features & usability to the customers unlike other Indian phones priced comparatively lower. Remember that they are the first to incorporate Android on Indian manufactured phones and success of them will largely affect the market.
Thank you Yogesh for such a good info..I will have a look at it again…
Thanks Amit Bhawani too for starting such a great blog …
Enjoy 🙂
Its not an Indian Make. It was introduced in Malaysia first.
They broke the news that; it’s a China OEM product.
Search for MA6 @ http://www.alibaba.com.
You will be shocked to see what spice is doing…
Hi SherlockHolmes,
Spice is not copying OEM’s(CSL or blueberry) MA6 🙂 , its actually a joint venture between Spice and CSLis exist in Malaysia …. and they released Mi-300 in Malaysia before India …
U can read here more ..
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/cons-products/electronics/Spice-Mobiles-to-own-65-in-JV-with-Malaysias-CSL-/articleshow/5585937.cms
I am not sure about the role of spice in this phone,
but i know this phone is known worldwide with different model names, and it is hacked with different android flavors.
I’m searching for android phones on a budget and cornered on htc wildfire and samsung galaxy 3.
The ‘spice’ this ignited some interest for it being under 10k and better specs. Thanks for the ‘ma6’ comment, goodbye Spice.
HTC for the build quality and 5mp cam is at 15k market price and galaxy at 12k. Really a tough choice for me.Considering the depreciation factor of pricing in electronics I’m tempted to stick with samsung.
Amit, should I go with wildfire or galaxy3 ?
There are no major tech spec differences.. processor, ram. One has higher in one of them. Shouldn’t be a problem.
If ‘durability’ is your only concern, then what would you choose among these two?
Hello I want to buy a smartphone pricing in & around 10,000 preferably a 3G Android one having good camera, screen resolution, audio quality etc. I have seen the Samsung Galaxy 5 & the Spice MI 300 on the net. The Spice people are also giving 2 years additional warranty covering water damage, breakage etc at an additional Rs1200 but I need your expert opinion.Which one do you think is better?Or do you suggest another phone? Please help me out
Spice mi-410 will be launched in Mid Jan, Before it was launching in mid Dec with android 2.1 but company has decided it to launch with android 2.2 that’s why it is being late in launching. Info from senior executive officer(SPICE MOBILITY).
anyone plz tell me if mi-300 can be further upgraded from 2.1 to 2.2 and 2.3.1 versions or not…
i m plannin to buy this phone on new year…
please help me…
many type of problems r in this mobile sombody can help me 08010113437
Is it upgradable to android v 2.2?…..if yes then how?
The only problem with the Indian based phone manufacturer companies is that, after the launch of their handset they rarely give an firmware update to the existing handset and only in the case if that handset is successful one.
Nah !!! I don’t think we have an firmware update on this !!!
ya,this can be updated using cyano to 2.2 froyo.
but for that u ve to get root access,that may be risky if u dont know wht u r doin mainly fr novice users.
but soon the bugs ll b fixed for 2.2 and 2.3.1 will be available soon.
fr those intrstd in update can search on google…