Celkon C76 Feature Phone Supports 8 Indian Languages, Price Is Rs. 1,899

Celkon Mobiles in India has launched a new feature phone called Celkon C76 that is basic at its core and brings an interesting feature of supporting eight Indian languages which include - Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. The phone was first unveiled in September 2013 and now it is available for buying across online sites and retails stores at a price of Rs. 1,899. The phone supports Dual SIM cards (GSM+GSM) and features a 2.8 inch TFT screen with 240 x 320 pixels resolution. The sound alert types available are Vibration, Polyphonic and MP3 ringtones.

Using the 3.5mm jack, users can plug-in earphones and listen to FM Radio. The rear camera is 1.3 megapixel one and supports video recording at 1280 x 1024 pixels, but there is not front cam. The microSD card support brings memory expandable up to 8 GB. For connectivity, users can have options of GPRS, EDGE, WLAN, Bluetooth and USB. Using the MP3/WAV player inbuilt in the feature phone, users can listen to music on-the-go. The Li-Ion 1400 mAh battery provides just about average battery life. "Introducing a multi-lingual phone will reach out to the majority people spread across the regional boundaries. This will enable users to send text messages in their respective mother tongue and perform other linguistic activity,” says Y Guru, Chairman and Managing director, Celkon Mobiles.


Available in three color variants - Chocolate, Silver and Black, Celkon C76 is the new budget phone in India.