Nokia India launches handset with 5 mp camera

"The new handset is designed as per the changing requirements of the mobile handset users," Nokia India, Head GTM, Program Portfoilo, Raghuvesh Sarup said here today.      

Priced at Rs 19,959, the new set is fitted with Xenon flash, autofocus, Carl Zesis optics and is A-GPS enabled which would allow sharing of photographs.     

In addition to it, it has Nokia Maps 2.0 which would allow users to see the detailed image of a particular place of a city.

"Presently, we are offering navigation maps of nine cities including Delhi, Jaipur, Ahemdabad, Pune, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Kolkata," he  said.     

The mobile phone also has HSDPA data connection for fast web browsing and downloading and Adaptive multi rate speech coding technology.

Nokia 6220 is also equipped with Nokia MBlog application which allows maintaining a blog directly from handset.      

Sharing the details regarding growing use of mobile camera phones, he said the size of camera phones in global market would grow to one billion by 2011.

However, he did not have any data relating to the growth of mobile camera users in Indian market.      

He further said that Nokia had adopted a three pronged strategy for mobile imaging and the first strategy was that collaboration was required among companies which were in the field of mobile imaging.

"Second strategy is to launch superior kind of camera solutions and finally offer better consumer experience," he said.