Reliance Mobile and HTC Launch the HTC Wildfire for GSM and 3G customers

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Reliance Mobile and HTC Launch the HTC Wildfire for GSM and 3G customers

3G mobile phone works on 2G and 3G networks
Share apps, updates and experiences with the latest social powerhouse from HTC
Reliance Communications customers to get an exclusive offer of upto 500 MB of free data with HTC Wildfire

New Delhi (India) – 01 August, 2010 – In a move that would empower the younger generation social networkers to stay seamlessly connected on the move, HTC Corporation, a global designer of smartphones, and Reliance Communications, (BSE: RCOM) India’s largest integrated telecom service provider, today announced an exclusive partnership to launch the HTC Wildfire™ in India. The 3G ready HTC Wildfire, equipped with the company’s signature HTC Sense experience, is a new Android phone on the GSM networks that integrates the most popular social networks to help bring your friends closer to you. Under the alliance, Reliance Communications GSM customers can avail up to 500 MB of free data access every month for a period of six months, thereby enabling them to experience the true power of the HTC Wildfire.

“Social networks have really caught on the fancy of today’s young generation, who like to stay seamlessly connected with each other even while on-the-go,” said Ajay Sharma, Country Head, and HTC India. “The stylishly designed HTC Wildfire combined with the HTC Sense experience bring all your communication requirements into one place, whether it’s through Facebook, Orkut, Twitter, Flickr, text messages, images or email, ensuring that one is never far away from the conversation and always close to one’s friends.”

“We are proud to further our association with a telecom leader like Reliance Communications who share our commitment of ushering in the latest innovation for Indian mobile phone user”, Ajay added.

“The launch of HTC Wildfire is in line with our strategy to offer next-generation service on mobile phones enabled with superior voice clarity, hi-speed wireless data network access and ultra-fast application downloads to Reliance Mobile customers”, said Mr. Mahesh Prasad President Marketing – Wireless Business, Reliance Communications.

“Empowering Reliance Mobile customers to access work and personal information on the move in addition to a host of fun applications, the feature-rich HTC Wildfire is a powerful Android powered 3G smartphone which will protect customers’ interest in the mobile phone once the 3G network and services are launched by RCOM,” Mr. Prasad added.

The 3G ready feature-rich futuristic HTC Wildfire smartphone would also give Reliance Mobile customers the unique experience of staying up to date with the friends’ posts, comments, alerts and photos, wherever they are. The smartphone would also enable the user with impeccable features laid on Android platform with HTC Sense operating system. Featuring a 3.2” touch screen, a 5 megapixel camera with auto focus LED flash, FM radio, a media player with a slot for expandable memory, the HTC Wildfire comes with special features including Proximity sensor, G-sensor, Digital compass, light sensor and an optical joystick, next generation caller ID, support for phone, email, text messaging, Wi-Fi, HTML web browser and more.

Attractively priced at Rs. Rs. 16,590*, the new HTC Wildfire will be available at all authorized HTC resellers across the country.

Reliance Mobile GSM customers upgrading to HTC Wildfire will also get FREE Data Usage up to 500 MB of free data access every month for a period of six months.

* Prices may vary according to the local applicable taxes

The New HTC Wildfire on Reliance Mobile GSM network offers:

Processor: Qualcomm® MSM7225-1, 528 MHz
Operating system: Android™ 2.1 with HTC Sense
Memory ROM: 512 MB Flash RAM: 384 MB
Dimensions: 10.66 cm (L) x 6.09 cm (W) x 1.21 cm (T)
Display: 3.2-inch QVGA 262k colour TFT capacitive touch screen
Network: HSPA/UMTS dual band (900/2100mhz); GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 (Band frequency, 3G network availability, and data speed are operator dependent.)
Connectivity: Bluetooth® 2.1 with Enhanced Data Rate
Camera: 5 megapixel colour camera with auto focus and LED flash GPS GPS/AGPS
Battery: 1300 mAh rechargeable lithium- ion battery
Special features: Proximity sensor, G-sensor, Digital compass, Light sensor, FM radio, Optical joystick
Users can download and install various applications from the Android Market with a single click

About HTC
HTC Corporation (HTC) is one of the fastest growing companies in the mobile phone industry. By putting people at the centre of everything it does, HTC creates innovative smartphones that better serve the lives and needs of individuals. The company is listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange under ticker 2498. For more information about HTC, please visit www.htc.com

About Reliance Communications:
Reliance Communications Limited founded by the late Shri Dhirubhai H Ambani (1932-2002) is the flagship company of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group currently has a net worth in excess of Rs. 64,000 crore (US$ 13.6 billion), cash flows of Rs. 13,000 crore (US$ 2.8 billion), net profit of Rs. 8,400 crore (US$ 1.8 billion).

Reliance Communications is India's foremost and truly integrated telecommunications service provider. The Company, with a customer base of ~ 110 million including over 2.5 million individual overseas retail customers and nearly 3 million DTH customers, ranks among the Top 5 Telecom companies in the world by number of customers in a single country. Reliance Communications corporate clientele includes 2,100 Indian and multinational corporations, and over 800 global, regional and domestic carriers.

Reliance Communications has established a pan-India, next generation, integrated (wireless and wireline), convergent (voice, data and video) digital network that is capable of supporting best-of-class services spanning the entire communications value chain, covering over 24,000 towns and 600,000 villages. Reliance Communications owns and operates the world's largest next generation IP enabled connectivity infrastructure, comprising over 190,000 route kilometers of fibre optic cable systems in India, USA, Europe, Middle East and the Asia Pacific region.