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A new benchmark in speed has been reached in Sri Lanka’s smartphone market with the arrival of the E-tel Curiosity O9, the first Octa Core smartphone to go on sale in the country.
The brand’s promoter Brantel said the O9 will be the fastest phone in Sri Lanka, and will further strengthen E-tel’s position as the third highest selling smartphone brand in the local market.
Powered by the cutting-edge MediaTeck 1.7 GHz Octa-Core Processor, the E-tel Curiosity O9 runs on the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean operating system, offering smartphone aficionados best-in-class performance and top-end features at an unbeatable price.
The sleek and stylish dual SIM phone has a standard and a micro SIM port, is HSPA and Wi-Fi/Wi-Fi Hotspot enabled, and has a 5-inch 16M colour full touch High Definition IPS display. With 1MB RAM and 4MB ROM, an 8MP auto focus back camera with flash, geo-tagging and face detection, a 3MP front camera, an external memory slot that can accommodate up to 32GB and Video and Skype calling facility, the O9 is fully-loaded with every feature offered by top global smartphone brands.
“Brantel is proud to once again lead the way in introducing a new benchmark in smartphone performance with the E-tel Curiosity O9,” the company’s CEO Bishri Latiff said. “As with its predecessor, the Quad Core Curiosity N3, we expect the new phone to fly off the shelves, significantly widening the use of state-of-the-art smartphone technology in Sri Lanka.”
E-tel phones are designed in Hong Kong and manufactured in three top ten ranked manufacturing facilities in China that produce branded smartphones for the European and US markets, guaranteeing the same high level of quality, consistency and performance. One of the key strengths of the E-tel brand has been its ability to offer the latest in technology without the price tag associated with building global brand equity.
E-tel the only brand present in the top three of both the Feature phone and Smartphone segments in the local market, according to the market intelligence and advisory firm CyberMedia Research (CMR).
Named after the Curiosity rover sent to Mars, the E-tel smartphone range sold in Sri Lanka now comprises of the Curiosity i4, i5c, i6 and i7c series, the Curiosity N3 released in early March 2014 and the Curiosity O9 released in late July 2014.
E-tel phones are available in nearly 2000 dealer outlets in Sri Lanka and via a Brantel owned after sales service network of six service centres in Colombo, Anuradhapura, Kandy, Matara, Negombo and Jaffna.
Brantel has been in operation in Sri Lanka since 2004 and launched the E-tel brand in 2008.
