HTC Corp, a worldwide leader in mobile phone innovation and design, and IDEA Cellular, a top telecom service provider in India, have made announcement about the availability of the HTC Touch Pro (T7276) and the HTC Touch Viva (T2223) in the India market.  

With cutting-edge innovation, design and entertainment capabilities, the HTC Touch Pro and Touch Viva offer users with two strong choices, which can fulfill their different requirements.

Jack Tong, Vice President, HTC Asia, stated, “HTC Touch Pro and Touch Viva perfectly embody our commitment to build a family of touch phones that are powerful, stylish and offer something for everyone. We are proud to be working together with a mobile leader like Idea Cellular who shares a similar vision for bringing mobile solutions to India.”

Mr. Pradeep Shrivastava, Chief Marketing Officer, IDEA Cellular Limited. Said, “Innovation and customer delight have been at the forefront of IDEA Cellular's service delivery to its customers, and this alliance with HTC – a global leader, is a reaffirmation of this commitment to our customers.”

“Together with HTC, we are pleased to be bringing our customers a complete suite of IDEA communications, browsing, content and Internet services across our network,” Mr. Pradeep added.

“HTC Touch Pro and the Touch Viva are significant touch-based milestones for Windows Mobile. I am delighted that Indian consumers will be offered these revolutionary devices that are based on the Windows Mobile 6.1 platform,” said Sumeet Gugnani, Director Mobile Communications Business, Microsoft India.

The HTC Touch Pro presents a stylish and classy touch screen experience for intuitive navigation and a full-featured QWERTY keyboard for text entry.

The Touch Pro features 3D optimized touch experience, five-row QWERTY keyboard layout, which makes typing-intensive tasks including composing email or working on Microsoft Office® documents speedy.

On the other hand, the HTC Touch Viva consists of the best elements of the touch screen experience in a device that's designed to put this newest, innate mobile phone technology in the hands of everyone with a passion for communication.

Besides its compact design with a sharp 2.8 screen, the Touch Viva also features touch screen for navigation through contacts, media and web pages with HTC's touch optimized TouchFLO™ user interface. Users can flip through their album artwork, pictures and videos as if they were picture cards in the palm of their hands.

The HTC Touch Pro™ (T7276) and HTC Touch Viva™ (T2223) will be available at a Market Operating Price of Rs 34,900 and Rs 16,490 respectively at all leading HTC Authorized Resellers across India.