Just In
- 7 hrs ago Realme C65 5G India Launch Confirmed; Coming Under Rs 10,000
- 8 hrs ago Instax Mini 99 Review: Should this be your next Instant Camera?
- 9 hrs ago Samsung Is Offering Free Screen Replacement for Select Devices Affected by Green Line Issue
- 10 hrs ago Boat Storm Call 3 Smartwatch Launched With up to 7 Days Battery Life – Check Price, Specs
Don't Miss
- Finance Rs 10/Share Final Dividend: Record Date To Be Announced Soon; Buy The IT Stock?
- Sports Who Won Yesterday's IPL Match 38? RR vs MI, IPL 2024 on April 22: Yashasvi Jaiswal and Sandeep Sharma Star In One-Sided Victory
- Lifestyle Hanuman Jayanti 2024: Hanuman Chalisa Lyrics With Meaning, When And How Many Times To Recite It
- Movies Karisma Kapoor Is ‘Summer Lovin’ Doll In Anavila Silk Kurta Set That You Can Swear By In This Scorching Heat
- Education Ratan Tata's Social Endeavors Recognized With KISS Humanitarian Award
- News US White House Considers Immigration Relief For Spouses Of US Citizens: What You Need To Know
- Automobiles Top Tips – How To Charge Electric Scooters For Best Battery Life
- Travel Kurnool's Hidden Gems: A Guide To Exploring India's Lesser-Known Treasures
MoFirst To Launch Smartphones That Support Regional Languages by March 2015
Indian smartphone brands have already realized the good that linguistic diversity of the country can do to the smartphone industry and thus most have started making phones that support more than one regional languages.
In the same line, Indian technology start-up MoFirst has plans to launch regional-language based smartphones, whose patent technology allow users to change languages with just a swipe, across India by March 2015.
Recommended: Top 5 Highly Rated Android Tablets You Could Buy This June
"Language is one of biggest barriers thats prevents people from using mobile phone functions exhaustively. We have launched and tested response to smartphones that supports Gujarati language. By March 2015, we will launch phones for all regional languages," MoFirst Solutions Co-founder and CEO Rakesh Deshmukh told PTI.
Recommended: Top 5 Amazing Smartphones You Can Buy Under Rs 20,000
The company, founded in December 2008, has developed smartphones under brand name Firstouch in which it has installed its patent technology of translation and transliteration from English to regional language and vice-versa.
"Our swipe technology helps customer to communicate in regional as well as in English even if they don't know one of these languages. A message typed in regional language can be translated to English by swiping finger left to right and transliterated by swiping finger right to left," Deshmukh said.
He said that customers have the option to keep all menu of the phones in regional language and even application store.
The company has plans to launch Firstouch phones in Hindi and Marathi language in July, Tamil, Telegu and Bengali by September, Kannada and Malayalam by November and rest of the regional languages by March 2015.
"We will launch 10 models of Firstouch Regional Smartphones in price bracket Rs 3,500 to Rs 12,500 in next one year. By the end of March 2015, we want to present all over India," Deshmukh said.
PTI
-
99,999
-
1,29,999
-
69,999
-
41,999
-
64,999
-
99,999
-
29,999
-
63,999
-
39,999
-
1,56,900
-
79,900
-
1,39,900
-
1,29,900
-
65,900
-
1,56,900
-
1,30,990
-
76,990
-
16,499
-
30,700
-
12,999
-
14,999
-
26,634
-
18,800
-
62,425
-
1,15,909
-
93,635
-
75,804
-
9,999
-
11,999
-
3,999