MUMBAI: Reliance Mobile and Samsung Mobile have announced the launch of India's first Android powered CDMA handset Samsung Galaxy i899.

The smartphone will offer seamless speed data on the move with speed upto 3.1 Mbps to Reliance Mobile customers. It will be available only on Reliance Mobile network and is the first CDMA device to be launched in India pre-installed with Android Market – an online applications store developed by Google for Android devices.

The touchscreen CDMA smartphone would also enable high-speed access to popular social networking sites like Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, YouTube as well as Gmail, GTalk and Google Maps. Featuring a 3.2... AMOLED touch-screen, a 3.2 megapixel camera, a media player and expandable memory upto 32GB, Samsung Galaxy i899 comes with popular Smartphone features including support for phone, email, text messaging, Wi-Fi, HTML web browser and more.

Announcing the launch, Samsung Electronics director- mobile and IT Ranjit Yadav stated, With this association we hope to target a large consumer base of Reliance Mobile subscribers by offering them the feature rich Galaxy i899 – India's first CDMA Android Phone. Applications from the Android Market can be easily downloaded and installed on to the Galaxy i899 very fast, thereby opening up an entirely new world of applications for the mobile phone users, which they can further customize as per their preferences. Consumers can also enjoy enhanced experience of several data speed dependent applications on the Hi Speed Data network of Reliance Communications. With this launch, we have considerably strengthened Samsung's CDMA portfolio in the Indian market....

The launch of Samsung Galaxy i899, Smart Phone, is in line with our strategy to offer next-generation services with unmatched  voice clarity, hi-speed wireless data network access and ultra-fast application downloads on India's largest and only nationwide CDMA mobile service   to Reliance Mobile customer,s... said Reliance Communications head of handset & data services Vrajesh Shelat.

Priced at Rs 19,900, Reliance Mobile customers upgrading to Samsung Galaxy i899 will also get Free Data Usage on Reliance Netconnect Broadband+ - 10GB for one month for prepaid customers and 15 GB per month for two months for post paid subscribers.

The handset features built-in Wireless Broadband support that offers data speed of upto 3.1 Mbps allowing customers to access Android Market to browse and download thousands of exclusive, free and powerful third-party applications on this platform.