While Nokia remains the top player in the Indian mobile phone market, its market share has dropped slightly because of lack of dual-SIM phones in its portfolio. With these new phones, Nokia hopes to increase its market share.

IN ORDER to cope with this market gap, the Finnish company on Wednesday launched two new phones: C2-03 and Nokia C2-06 in Chennai. Both these phones have a dual-SIM facility, accompanied with touch and type feature, web, maps, messaging service, stereo FM radio, media player, expandable memory (up to 32 GB).

Nokia C2-03 is the dual-SIM version of C2-02 phone, a user can personalise up to 5 SIM cards, while rest of the features are the same. SIM cards can be changed without turning off the phone of removing the batter. It’s a slider phone with 10 MB memory, a 2.0 megapixel camera, Bluetooth 2.

1+EDR, maps and a micro-USB.

Nokia C2-06, too, is a slider phone, and is available in a variety of colours. The phone comes with new Nokia Maps for Series 40, which allows a user to check out maps and plan routes even when the phone is in offline mode, thus saving on the download money. It has a 10 MB memory, a 2.0 megapixel camera, Ovi Maps, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and a micro-USB.

These phones also have an interesting data compression feature, which allows them to download stuff at a faster pace, while at the same time reducing the surfing cost. The estimated cost of the two phones is approximately Rs 5,000.