Dell launches Venue, Venue Pro smartphones
05 Feb 2011
PC manufacturer, Dell has launched two new smartphones, the Venue and Venue Pro in the Indian market.
Priced at Rs29,990, Venue is an Android 2.2 smartphone powered by a 1GHz processor. It comes with a 4.1-inch AM-OLED display with curved corning gorilla glass, 8-megapixel camera, ActiveSync and QuickOffice support for business applications.
Venue Pro is Dell's first Microsoft Windows 7 based smartphone. Designed in a slider format, the Venue Pro features a QWERTY keypad and comes with XBOX Live and other Widows applications.
Like the Venue, the Venue Pro also features a 4.1-inch AMOLED touch display and a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. It comes with 5-megapixel camera with LED flash and autofocus, 512MB RAM and 8GB onboard storage but doesn't feature a memory card slot.
The Venue Pro is priced at Rs34,990 for the Indian market.
The smartphones will be available across all GSM networks in India with special privileges for Aircel users, courtesy Dell's tie-up with Aircel as its preferred partner.
''Aircel is delighted to enter into a preferred partnership with Dell wherein Dell customers will enjoy exclusive data plans, PocketApps store and a rich bouquet of content and value added services,'' said Gurdeep Singh, COO, Aircel.