Two SIM Cards In One Smartphone Soon!

Chinese mobile manufacturer, Yulong Computer Telecommunication Scientific Co., has announced that it wants to bring its dual-mode handsets to India. The dual-mode handsets can let you use two SIM cards (i.e. two different phone numbers) simultaneously in one phone. Yes! two different numbers at the same time in the same phone, without having to restart the phone or swap SIM cards! This will be a boon to people who carry two phones. I have one GSM and one CDMA phone, but if these guys have their way, I’m buying one for sure!

The range of phones have two different chips inside, so it's essentially like having two different phones in one casing. Due to being separate, there is no interference between the two networks.

The dual-mode Smartphones planned to launch in India are the CDMA+GSM models CoolPAD 728 (Rs. 23,000) and CoolPAD 288 (Rs. 11,000), and there’s also a dual-GSM CoolPAD 782 G2 who's price is unknown. These prices are approximate conversions of their international prices.

The CoolPAD 728 (CDMA+GSM) and 728 G2 (GSM+GSM) both feature Windows CE, a 240x320 QVGA display with a touch-screen interface, upto 2.0 megapixel digital camera, MP3/WMV and streaming media, 3D stereo speakers, 128MB ROM and 64MB RAM with a miniSD expansion option, and the usual set of Windows-based mobile applications. However, Bluetooth or Infrared are conspicuously absent from the feature listing on the website.

These phones are already on sale in China, having sold a combined total of 2,30,000 units of the most popular CDMA+GSM models.