This mobile handset can play videos though using proprietary disks using blue laser technology and the H.264 standard. The disks slip into a tray that pops out from the rear of the phone. Think PSP. If the large 2.8 inch display is not good enough for you (and I don’t know why it wouldn’t be), it also has a TV out. The headphones socket do extra duty to suit that very purpose.
Users can currently view just one movie (2.5 hours) per disk, but given time I’m sure someone will figure out a way to increase that. At the moment there are about 40 titles available, all Bollywood of course, but that number is likely to multiply many times over in the coming months. The disks are available for about Rs 200 per title.
Spice also launched an innovative handset designed specially for the blind. The keypad is equipped with Braille dots and a voice-guided system reads out the digits as they're typed. It also calls out the numbers of incoming calls. That may not seem like much, but I still think it's a brilliant concept. The phone is priced around Rs 800 ($20).
We don’t have details about the price of the video handset yet, or when it would be launched in India officially. So stay tuned.



