TechGazing

We have been moping about the absence of 3G in India for a good time now. Yes, we can get decent bandwidth using some of the high-speed modems from the likes of Tata and Reliance, but browsing on cellphones remained a rather slow affair. Fortunately that seems to be changing. A few weeks ago,the Samung Corby Speed was released, which allowed users to surf the Net on it at speeds up to 3.1 Mbps. However, we were a tad disappointed to see that all this speed was being given to a device that was more a multimedia phone than a smartphone.

Well, according to a recent ad, even that shortcoming seems to have been tackled. Reliance Mobile is now offering the BlackBerry Tour 9630 device with 3.1 Mbps Internet access speed. Now, that makes it India’s first smartphone to have speeds in the 3G class. It also gives it a formidable advantage over other not just other smartphones, but just about every mobile computing device in the country. After all, it has a super QWERTY keypad, a terrific screen, a decent 3.2 MP camera, GPS, great battery life, lots of apps in the App World, has world roaming across 240 countries, supports GSM and CDMA networks, has decent multimedia and most connectivity options, Wi-Fi excluded. But with connectivity speeds like that, we are not even sure too many would miss Wi-Fi.

Yes, it is not the cheapest device in town, but the high-speed connectivity edge is likely to make it one of the best investments for those who love to work on the move. Until the next smartphone on high-speed Internet comes across!