Karbonn Brings in a Battery of Phones

Amongst the low-budget multimedia phone companies, Karbonn has not hit the Indian market too well. Looking at the K10 and K560, you might just agree. They’re now trying to counter that with quantity, as they plan on launching ten new phones with varied features and prices.

The specs of all the phones are not officially out, but in brief the Karbonn K111, K11 and K514 fall in the multimedia category while the Karbonn K550i, K424, K343, K316, are music phones. The Karbonn K451i doesn’t boast of any features apart from good battery life. We’ve found some specs from various sites on the K1414 and K25i.

K1414 looks pretty

K1414 is a touchscreen phone with access to Twitter and EBuddy services. The phone supports Dual SIM (GSM + GSM) and has the standard features of Alarm, PC Modem Adaptability and Stopwatch. Here’s a list of the specs for the K1414:

• 3.2-inch touchscreen WQVGA display with a resolution of 320 x 400 pixels
• GPRS
• Bluetooth with A2DP
• 3 Megapixel camera
• 62 MB memory expandable up to 16 GB

Although there’s no mention of the price, Flipkart has slapped a Rs. 4990 tag on it.

The K25i is a QWERTY keypad phone that has some social networking features. It has instant chat messengers like Yahoo! & MSN and has Java & Email support. The other specs are as follows:

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• TFT Display Screen with QWERTY keypad
• GPRS/EDGE
• Bluetooth
• 2 Megapixel camera
• Memory expandable up to 8 GB through a Micro SD slot
• FM Radio

The phone is priced at Rs. 4550 which we got to know from a