Samsung has announced three new 3G-enabled yet affordable phones for the Indian market. First is the Champ 3.5G (S3770) that was leaked last month. Champ 3.5G is a full-touch device that comes with a 2.8-inch QVGA display, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 2MP camera, SoundAlive, 30MB internal memory with memory expansion support of up to 16GB and 1000mAh battery. Champ 3.5G will sell for Rs. 5,590.

Next up is the Chat 527 (S5270) that also showed its face early last month. Targeted at avid texters and messaging users, the phone comes with an optical trackpad, a QWERTY keyboard, 2.4-inch display, Wi-Fi, FM Radio, microSD card slot up to 16GB and 1000mAh battery. It will be available for Rs. 5,930.

Next up is the simple and sleek Primo (S5610). Clad in a metallic design, Primo comes with a 2.4-inch display, 5MP camera with flash, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0, front-facing VGA camera and microSD card slot supporting up to 16GB. It will be priced at Rs. 6,590.
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The Galaxy Tab 10.1 will get a name change when it will be announced next week in India. It will be unveiled as Galaxy Tab 750 on August 10 at an event in New Delhi. Apart from the change in branding, we expect the same Galaxy Tab 10.1 with Android Honeycomb OS, 1GHz dual-core Tegra 2 processor, Wi-Fi, 3G support, Bluetooth, GPS, 3MP and 2MP cameras, HD video recording and more. Samsung will also live stream the launch on August 10, which you’ll be able to watch it here.

Another Android smartphone has just been launched by Micromax in India. The Micromax A70 features a 3.2-inch 320 x 480 touchscreen display, a 600MHz processor, a 0.3MP front-facing camera, a 5MP rear-facing camera, a microSD card slot (up to 32GB), GPS, 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, a 3.5mm headset jack, a 1450mAh battery and runs on Android 2.2 Froyo OS. so if you are in India you can start to purchase The Micromax A70 just for Rs. 7,999 (about $180) without contract.

Finally we got confirmation that the cheap tablet from India is not a hoax. It is real. Announced by India’s Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal last year, this India’s cheap tablet is said would be retailed with a Rs 1,500 price or around $30. The tablet is expected to be available later this month. While the official retail price will be around Rs 2,200 or around $50, India’s government will subsidize the tablet around 50% to make $25 retail price. There will be 10,000 unit shipped this month and another 90,000 units released during the summer.

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HTC’s one of the two smartphones with dedicated Facebook button – Salsa is now available for purchase online in India. Flipkart today started selling the device for INR 20,500 and we are expecting an official announcement from HTC pretty soon.

HTC Salsa comes with some decent specs in this budget. Salsa was introduced earlier this year at Mobile World Congress with HTC Chacha, which also comes with a dedicated Facebook button.

HTC Salsa Features:

• 5 MP Camera
• VGA Secondary Camera
• Android 2.3
• Bluetooth V3.0 With A2DP
• 3.4 inch display
• 1520 mAh
• 800 MHz Qualcomm processor
• 512 MB Internal Memory, 512 MB RAM

Samsung’s much awaited Galaxy S II has been announced for the Indian market. The power packed Android 2.3 device will be available from next month for a price of Rs. 32,890 or users can pre-book the device from tomorrow by paying Rs. 1,000. Vodafone has managed to grab an exclusive sale period where Vodafone will sell the phone from June 3 before it hits retail nationwide on June 9.

The phone specs include a dual-core 1.2GHz processor, 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus display, TouchWiz UI 4.0, 8MP rear-facing camera, 2MP front-facing camera, 1080p video playback and recording, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0, A-GPS, 16GB internal memory and microSD card slot.

Samsung Mobile India’s twitter account just confirmed that bada 1.2 update has been rolled out for original Wave (S8500) users in India. Users can download the update via Kies which in addition to performance improvements and bug fixes, will also add the T9 Trace keyboard.

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Poor Nokia, between having to abandon its Symbian baby and hawk anachronistic wares at a Microsoft event, it’s had a pretty rough go of it recently. Now India’s Ministry of Home Affairs wants to block the launch of the company’s new push email service until a monitoring system can be put in place. According to The Economic Times, the Department of Telecommunications is being asked to hold back the service until the intelligence community has a way to spy on messages being sent. RIM recently fought a similar battle with the Indian government, as well as those in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Looks like the two companies share more in common than just their slip from the top of the smartphone heap.

At the Samsung South West Asia Forum in New Delhi, Samsung announced the Galaxy S II for the Indian market. While we don’t have an exact date to look at, we do know that Indians will be able to get it sometime in May for a price hovering in between Rs. 32,000 to Rs. 35,000.

Although pricey, users will get a phone packed with features likw HSPA+ 21Mbps support, Android 2.3 OS, 1.2GHz dual-core processor (still unsure which processor will be used), 4.3-inch Super AMOLED display, 8MP camera with LED flash, full HD video recording and playback, GPS, various Hubs – Social Hub, Game Hub, Readers Hub and Music Hub, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n with Wi-Fi Direct support, Bluetooth 3.0, accelerometer, DLNA, 16GB internal memory, microSD card slot and 1650mAh battery.

We often hear that cheap tablets keep coming from chinese manufacturers but the world’s cheapest Tablet comes from India. Actually the India government are trying to develop a $10 laptop but their experiment result a 7 inch tablet which only priced Rs.1500 ($30). It is not like the expected price but this $30 tablet is worth and very useful. This India’s tablet runs Linux OS and sport 2GB of RAM, WiFi and USB port as well as a webcam. The tablet support cloud computing and Adobe Flash. Lots of free or open source applications also preloaded to the tablet which include Open Office, PDF reader, Media Player and some more. This cheap Indian tablet expected to hit the Indian market starting from next year.