"The target sales for 2005 for all the handset models in India is two million," SIEL director, sales and marketing, Ravinder Zutshi, said.
"The industry is growing at about 60 per cent. Last year, we managed to grow at the same pace and this year also we are looking at a similar growth," he said when asked about the expected growth in its mobile handset sales.
SIEL has added another top-end model, D500, with cricketers Virender Sehwag, Mohammed Kaif and Irfan Pathan launching it at the ongoing Lakme India Fashion Week 2005.
The handset has been rated 'World's Best Moblile Phone' by the 3GSM Association World Congress held at Cannes in February this year.
"This model has been positioned as a lifestyle statement at the top end of our handset portfolio," Zutshi said. Priced at around Rs 22,500, D500 model has 96 MB of user memory, 1.3 mega pixel camera, 1.9 inch LCD screen.
It also supports messaging in Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati and Kannada.
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