Karbonn Titanium S6 with Android 4.2 coming for Rs 19,900

Karbonn Titanium S6 was expected to be launched in June but now we have got confirmation that it will be launched in July.

Karbonn is getting ready to launch yet another smartphone under its Titanium series, called Titanium S6.

As reported by The Mobile Indian earlier, Karbonn Titanium S6 will be priced at Rs 19,900 and will run on Android Jelly Bean 4.2.

It will have a quad core processor and will be very slim. It will also support a 13 megapixel camera, Pardeep Jain, managing director of Jaina Group, which owns Karbonn Mobiles, told The Mobile Indian.

Jain had earlier said that the smartphone was expected in June but now we have got confirmation that it will be launched in July.

In the last couple of months we have seen a couple of affordable full-HD smartphones like Zen Ultrafone, Wickedleak Wammy Passion Z, Gionee E5, Lava Iris 504q and so on being launched in India. All these phones are priced between Rs 13,000 to Rs 19,000 and offer value for money proposition.

Interestingly, the last quad core smartphone launched by Karbonn, Titanium S5 got a warm reception by consumers. It had a 5 inch qHD (540 x 960 pixels) display, a 1.2 GHz quad core processor, 1 GB of RAM, and was running on Android Jelly Bean with OS version 4.1.2. It was pitched directly against the Micromax Canvas HD A116.

National roaming won't be free: TRAI

ROAMING

Disappointing mobile users, TRAI reduces ceiling on roaming but fails to affect the present tariff scenario.

Telecomm Regulatory Authority of India has ruled out the plan of providing free roaming services to mobile phone users in India. However, it has reduced the ceilings for roaming tariffs. Earlier, roaming fee was expected to be abolished from March this year.

According to the ruling sent out by TRAI, the ceilings for roaming tariffs set in 2007 have been reduced from Rs 1.40 and Rs 2.40 to Rs 1 and 1.50 for local and national calls while roaming respectively. For incoming calls while roaming, ceiling has been reduced form Rs 1.00 to Rs 0.75 per minute. The outgoing SMS which earlier was being charged between Rs 3.50 and Rs 1.50 have now been priced flat at Rs 1.50 for STD SMS and Rs 1 for local SMS.

Even though the ceilings have been reduced by TRAI, on ground pricing is likely to remain the same as most of the telecom operators including Airtel, Vodafone, Idea and Aircel are offering roaming services at similar pricing (outgoing STD calls at Rs 1.50 per minute and outgoing local calls at Rs 1 per minute).

But with the ceilings now reduced by TRAI there will be uniformity in pricing by service providers or telecom operators as the upper limit has now been reduced and most beneficial will be in the case of outgoing SMS which will be charged up to Rs 1.50 maximum for STD and Rs 1.00 for local. Incoming calls will also be charged at reduced tariff form Rs 1.00 to Rs 0.75 per minute now offering more savings.

The telecom operators now with the upper limits being reduced will be forced to offer all services at lower or standard pricing be it on home network or on a different network. But the telecom operators still remain free to provide special rebate to users with the use of STV or special packs for reduced tariffs while roaming, which presently include free incoming calls and per second billing for calls made while roaming outside the home network as well.