This is getting quite frustrating. More than a month after the launch of two of the most anticipated mobile phones in the US, there is complete silence about their launches in India.
Motorola Droid photo
I am talking about the Motorola Droid and the Nokia N900. Everyone knows them both. Motorola Droid is the iPhone killer that everyone who is not an iPhone fanboy wants to try out at least once. We have been reviews from websites abroad, and generally everyone seems to like the Droid. It is approaching a sales target of 1 million, for chrissakes. That is a vote of confidence by the tech-savvy American public, certainly. So when are going to see it in India?
Photo: Nokia N900 features a 3.5" WVGA touch screen
I was once a Motorola fanboy. Those were the days of the first Motorola Razr. We spent what was a fortune in those days. Some Rs 17,000 or so. Yes, we. We bought two. Me and my brother. And for a long time, we had the snazziest phone around. I stil have it lying around somewhere. Once I got used to their atrocious user interface, and decided to do nothing more than send SMSes and take calls, it was a great mobile phone alright. The Motorola Droid, on the other hand, is the complete opposite of the Razr. This can is fast, has a touchscreen, can run multiple apps simultaneously, runs the latest version of Google Android.. (if you are looking for Google Android phones in India, click that link or this one for more info.)
And then the Nokia. My first phone ever was a Nokia 5110, and then I went through several Nokia phones temporarily ditching it for the Razr once, and then went back to Nokia again. Their current interface, the S60 Symbian, looks seriously cluttered and is a kludge to use on their latest phones. It looks like it is seriously a generation behind the interfaces on even Windows Mobile phones with a custom interface like the HTC ones!
All that has – possibly – just changed with the launch of the expensive but powerful Nokia N900. While we know that this is a brilliant phone on paper (apart from the resistive screen), we need to see this. We need to touch this, use it to know if this is the phone that will save Nokia from ignominy.
No chance. Motorola and Nokia have both been silent about the launch of their phones in India. What is it – supply issues? Is the demand so high? There is reason to believe so, I guess. 1 million Droid sales in US is no joke, and the N900 has met with much enthusiasm and probably, the company wants to focus on the biggest smartphone markets first. After all, when it comes to smartphones, India is seriously lagging.
I have even tried to see if there are any gadget shopping websites in India, which offer the N900 or the Droid. No such luck. All we can do is wait and fume, for now.
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