Social network with Linkz, the new touch-screen by Fly mobile

Fly mobile, a Meridian Group brand, recently announced the launch of its E145 messaging and social networking full touch dual-SIM phone with 2 mega-pixel camera, WQVGA screen at an affordable price of Rs5,509.

The mobile, targeted at the youth, is powered by Fly Buzz, which features multiple award winning application, Nimbuzz, an all-in-one messenger service that supports Skype, MSN, GTalk, Yahoo!, MySpace and others.

With Nimbuzz users can launch IM chat sessions, offline messaging, send photos, videos, music, voice messaging and various other communication and interactive features.

Linkz also features Snaptu, an all-in-one social networking application, with which one can plug into Twitter, Facebook, Picasa, Flickr and Google Calendar from anywhere and at anytime. It also provides games, cricket updates and live news.

Prem Kumar, chief executive officer (India operations), Fly mobile, said, ''Buoyed by the success of Fly Circle (B430 DS), our first all-in-one instant messaging and social networking phone, we decided to up the ante by launching a full touch edition for the urban youth who are more touch savvy.'' 

Linkz uses Opera Mini, the most popular mobile browser in the world, and also provides regular features such as Bluetooth, Java games and an expandable memory capacity up to 8 GB.