Samsung has announced the launch of two message-centric mobile phones in India, the Samsung Corby TXT B3210 and Samsung Corby Mate B3313.

Motorola has announced a new touchscreen phone, the Motorola Crush, that will be launched via US Cellular, by end-2009.

HTC Tattoo, a touchscreen phone from Taiwanese handset maker HTC has been launched in India. The HTC Tattoo is an Android phone, running Android 1.6. The company announced that the phone will be available in India at a price of Rs 18,400 in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. In other parts of India, HTC Tattoo price will be Rs 16,990.

UK-based Fly Mobile has announced the launch of two new dual-SIM touchscreen phones, the Fly MC 160 Touch and the Fly E 106 Touch, in India.

BlackBerry App World for India has been launched, seven months after it was unveiled in the US and Western Europe. BlackBerry App World is an application gathering and distribution service, on the lines of the iPhone App Store started by Apple.

Nokia struggling to meet its expectations for the touchscreen mobile phone market in India, but they have a few attractive touch screen mobile phone models in the market.

LG has launched the LG GD900 Crystal transparent phone, in India.

Opera Mobile 10 for mobile phones running Windows Mobile was launched today, the latest edition of the popular mobile browser. Barely two weeks back, Opera had launched Opera Mobile 10 for Symbian phones. Mostly, Nokia phones run the Symbian operating system.

Nokia has announced that the latest addition to its Eseries line-up, the Nokia E72 smartphone, is now available in stores.

Dual sim phones are all the rage in India now. An estimated 20% of all mobile users in India are believed to be using dual sim mobile phones. Those who keep one mobile number of the office and one for home now do not have to carry two different cells, and can manage their work with a single, multiple-sim phone. Though cellphone giants like Nokia, iPhone, BlackBerry, Motorola and HTC have not ventured into the dual-sim mobile phone market, others like LG, Samsung and a host of smaller gadget makers have dived straight in. Here, we take a look at a range of popular dual sim phones available in India.