Nokia launches dual SIM phones

Nokia has officially unveiled three dual SIM handsets onto the telecom market.

The handsets, Nokia X1-01, C2-00 and C2-03, comes with a lot of new exciting features such as loud music speaker which can play for 36 hours continuously and designed with the youth in mind and an easy swap of SIM.

Other key features of both handsets are a different MP3 ringtone for each SIM, unique name and icon for each SIM, Micro SD which support up to 16GB for the X1-01 and 32GB for the C2-00, large phone book with up to 500 entries, speaking alarm clock and super long battery life.

On the other hand, the Nokia C2-03 model, which will be available in the country in few weeks also comes in a sleek touch screen slide cell phone with higher specifications than the first two. All phones come in about eight colours ranging from off white, silver, blue, red to black.

“Nokia has introduced all three phone models at the same time to enable users of the products save cost and also to lead innovation in the handset manufacturing industry.

“Nokia wants to always remain the leading brand,” Country Manager, Ludovic Falcuo, told the media at the official unveiling of the handsets in Accra.

“You will find that coming in late, that has been asked severally, is hinged on the fact that if you want to make a quality product, from a reputable organisation, we don’t just rush in and rush out; people have known Nokia as devices you could use for a long time,” he added.

Olumide Balogun, Product Manager of Nokia, West Africa, making a said: “Through the various specifications of the newly introduced phones, the Nokia C2-00 also has a five SIM card memory, which means the settings of five SIM cards are automatically stored on the phone and will thus automatically read whenever it is slotted into the phone, even after so many months.

The Nokia X1-01 and C2-00, are presently on the Ghanaian market at very competitive prices of GH¢ 65 and GH¢ 110 respectively, while the third, the Nokia C2-03 is expected to be made available in the next few weeks.