Information Madness

Aircel India, the pan India GSM mobile service provider recently launched its wireless internet phone (WIP) at Rs 3299. This is a first-of-its-kind offering and the WIP service comes with attractive prepaid and postpaid rental plans.

The Aircel WIP is at the same time a phone and an internet modem and is preloaded with a web browser. The phone also features single touch GPRS/WAP (pocket internet access) and is made available in all the 22 telecom circles in India. The device is a compact and easy to use model with a 3.5 inches TFT LCD screen.

The model has inbuilt on-device internet browsing facility which lets you to browse the internet on the device at EDGE speed, without any requirement of connecting to a PC for internet access. The device offers attractive call charges where the subscriber can make local and STD calls at just 50p/min to any network across India.

Huawei has modeled the WIP device and it has an inbuilt memory of 64MB. However, the memory is non expandable and users can not download files from the internet to the phone. But the phone can be connected to a PC or a laptop as an internet modem and files can be downloaded to the computer by this process.