If you from india and have used HTC’s first generation G1 model of smart phone then it is likely that you are keeping your fingers crossed for the launch of HTC magic in India. HTC the Taiwanese company has come up with its latest second generation model, G2 and has launched it in India on Tuesday, which is India first smart phone and it runs on Android operating system. This doesn’t have a Google branding and has a lot of up gradations done to it s previous model. Let’s have a quick check on the best and worst features of the upgraded G2 model.

Having been launched, the G2 the first thing which goes in your mind would be the price. And you guessed it as it comes to Rs.29900. Bharthi Airtel has made an agreement with HTC for unlocking the HTC magic G2 phone. Thus you can buy it from all the relationship centers of Airtel across India or from the HTC resellers which are spread across 17 cities including Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Cochin, Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jalandhar, Kolkata, Ludhiana, Lucknow, Mumbai, Pune and Patna. The Airtel customers are offered with 100 MB monthly download for a span of 6 months.Though both Airtel and Vodafone were well in the race, Airtel has managed to claim it and to your surprise Vodafone is the major carrier of both G1 and G2 in most of countries particularly in Europe. Though it has been tied up with Airtel it doesn’t mean that it can’t be used with any other carrier.

There is a limit on the agreement as it is restricted to the offers given by Airtel to its customers. By the statement of the company it seems that the Airtel customers would be able to take advantage of many utility applications like in-mobile search, hello tunes, weather news, portfolio manager and so on. Giving a thought to the price of G2, it would be really difficult to say how many catchers are there to buy it!!! But it is expected around 1 million HTC Magics would be shipped by August.

Coming to the internals of the smart phone G2, most Linux users would be benefited as this uses Android which is an open source platform based on Linux operating system. It is a very robust operating system and it provides better Outlook synchronization. The device also includes new features like Smart Dialler and has a soft QWERTY keypad. Compared to G1 this seems to be sleeker and a lighter model but with an onscreen keyboard and everything is touch screen. G2 offers a better battery life when compared to G1.

Are you just curious to know specifications of the simply attractive G2 phone? No more wait. It has a wide screen display of 3.2-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with a resolution of 320×480. It has an auto focus color camera of 3.2 megapixels. it supports a wide range of audio and video formats and it weighs about 118.5 grams which is lighter when compared to G1 weighing 158 grams. On the whole it is really attractive but only for the price. Let’s wait and watch.