14 DAY TRIAL // Motorola has recently unveiled a new CDMA entry-level handset, the Motorola W362, which will soon be released in India, via Reliance Communications.
Apparently, the new W362 is 100% made in Motorola's new Indian factory from Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, inaugurated only two months ago. This is probably one of the reasons why the handset has an affordable price: 4,199 INR, the equivalent of $98 or 62 Euros. The rest of the reasons are, of course, represented by the limited capabilities of the phone.
Working only on the 800 MHz CDMA frequencies, Moto W362 is a candybar that resembles the older W360 model but brings better specs. The new handset features a 160 x 128 pixel TFT display with 65K colors, MP3 player, FM radio, SMS and MMS capabilities, USB 1.1, voice recorder, speakerphone, expandable memory, downloadable games, wallpapers and ringtones. The candybar also comes with a photo camera, but only a VGA one (with digital zoom but no video recording), which means it's able to take snapshots at a maximum resolution of 640 x 480 pixels.
Motorola W362 measures 110.8 x 45 x 14.6 millimeters weighs only 75 grams and includes a 910 mAh Li-Ion battery of unknown (yet) capabilities.
At first, Motorola W362 will be available across 12 Indian cities from the country's southern region (Chennai included), with other cities and areas to follow shortly. There's no word yet on when exactly the W362 will be available for purchase. Anyway, most probably, in the next few weeks users will be able to buy it.
With about 46 million customers, Reliance is the second largest mobile operator in India, after Airtel and ahead of Vodafone. Reliance is one of the two Indian carriers that offer CDMA services (besides GSM), the other operator being Tata Indicom, which is CDMA-only.