PTCL takes Pakistan’s mobile communication into its stride with the launch of first 3G smartphone

Pakistan Telecommunication Limited has taken yet another step in revolutionizing the telecommunication industry in Pakistan. The pioneers of 3G networks in the country, who brought the fast speed internet in the reach of public without the hassle of wires, have now taken mobile telecom industry into their stride. The company announced Pakistan’s first 3G enabled Android-based smartphone, IVIO Icon Pro, this week.

Although both 3G networks and Android handsets are not new technologies in Pakistan; these have been used separately, however. The wireless 3G internet was, to date, limited to personal computing and Android phones could only benefit from GPRS and EDGE networks provided by the national carriers.

However, PTCL has combined both technologies and the final product, the ICON Pro is now available to the public. Aside from the 3G network, the smartphone is powered by one of best mobile operating systems in the world, Google’s Android. The IVIO sports the version 2.2, Froyo of the software.

Although there is no PTCL supported Android-based applications market in Pakistan per se, Google offers a vast pool of countless application at their app store. In addition there are third-party applications available on the internet.

The handset offers some of the best features inside the chassis, though they are not the latest in the market, they are fast and efficient. The ICON Pro has a single-core Qualcomm MSM7627 processor clocked at 600MHz. The brain is supported by 256 MB of RAM.

The smartphone has internal storage capacity of 512 MB however; it supports external Micro-SD card with capacity of up to 32 GB.

The rear camera is 5 mega-pixel which is capable of capturing high quality video. However, HD capabilities are lacking in the handset. There is a 0.3 mega-pixel front-facing camera that can be swiftly used for video chats on PTCL’s 3G network.

The ICON Pro comes with all the necessities required for wireless connectivity in addition to 3G network. It sports Bluetooth 2.0, WiFi, WAP, GPRS and EDGE as standard features. Wherever, the 3G network is not available, the user can connect to the internet via GPRS immediately.

The PTCL 3G network is only one feature of the phone. As the ICON Pro is both GSM and GPRS supported, it can be connected to any GSM and AMPS network in Pakistan.

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Posted by Usman Khalid on Jan 10 2012. Filed under Sci-Tech. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry