A couple of months back Mi-Fone launched a range of three enticing models the Mi-Q+, Mi-Q1 and Mi-Q5, these apart from all the essential multimedia options such as email, instant messaging, and uploading and downloading of documents are priced at a throwaway price, leading us to think the fate of smartphones in near future.

The Mi-fone series comes with all the necessary updated features that are in vogue.

For instance the Mi-Q+ has GPRS Class 10, WAP 2.0, MMS, FM radio, a torch light and has a QWERTY keypad. On the other hand is Mi-Q1 a dual-sim phone that has GPRS/WAP/MMS and MP3/Video abilities also sporting a memory space of up to 1GB.

The third to feature in the lot is the Mi-Q5 that boasts of all the above features at the same time runs on Java based applications such as the new MI-APPS initiative that integrates IM and push email with social apps.

The above characteristics if made so ubiquitous may intensely affect the market space of other dominant players such as Blackberry, HTC etc. The price is another factor that may magnetize many amongst the Indian market, as it ranges between Rs 2,500 - 3,999.