Reliance Info unveils wristwatch phone

Reliance Infocomm has launched Telson TWC 1150, a wristwatch designer phone with plug-in camera from Telson Electronics of South Korea, for the first time in India.

A next-generation mobile phone with cybertic design, Telson 1150 can be worn on the wrist and is the world's lightest CDMA2000 1x phone, the company said in a release.

Telson Electronics is expected to launch the same model in Korea within a few months.

Reliance is offering the watch phone on an outright sale basis. Priced at Rs 23,900, it is initially being launched at Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad.

According to a media release, the watch phone weighs only 98 gms and has several features including speakerphone facility along with infrared 'finger-ring' type earpiece.

The battery of the phone enables talk time up to 100 minutes and standby time up to 150 hours. The phone also has a three-way calling facility for conference, call waiting and forwarding and call mute.

Reliance Infocomm has already launched around 12 handsets including a PDA handset in India. Since its commercial launch in May 2003, Reliance Infocomm, which offers wireless and wireline services across the country, has cornered six million subscribers.