Visafone Excites Customers With OMH Android Dual SIM Smartphone

*Sailesh Iyer, Visafone CEO

Visafone, one of Nigeria’s leading telecom operators has launched the Motorola XT 800 and ZTE R750 dual SIM touch screen smart phones which operate on the Android Operating System. The launch makes Visafone the first CDMA operator in Africa to roll out these devices.
In a statement signed by the Head, Corporate Communications, Mr. Joseph Ushigiale, the launch of the phone was said to have been widely received with appreciable excitement having recorded over 600 unit sales just within one week of the official launch.
Android, the fastest selling growing mobile operating system in the U.S, UK and Europe, is an open-source mobile Google operating system with over 300,000 applications stored in the android market. The device grants access to emails on the go, mobile office (word, excel, power point) applications and others.
A report released recently by a global leader in measuring the digital world and preferred source of digital business analytics, comScore MobiLense, showed that Android OS is currently leading other smart phones with a 38.1 per cent share of the market while Blackberry OS has 24.7 per cent share of the market.
Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Visafone, Sailesh Iyer, said at the launch of the android phones that "We are excited to be the first mobile operator to launch the Android dual SIM OMH touch screen phone into the African market. This further empowers corporate organizations and

Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) with tool of having a mobile office on the go."
Iyer explained that the Android Dual-SIM phones has been designed to enable users to easily access both their work and personal lifestyles via just one device. “The launch of the dual SIM Android Smartphone also reflects our long term investment to develop high-tech devices which will enable our customers explore various unique applications that satisfy their needs,” he said.
“With the Android phone, Visafone customers can now download applications like games, the Bible, Quran and access to social networking sites like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and news websites like CNN,” he pointed out.
Iyer said “Customers will also enjoy unique features of using their Visafone SIM and additional GSM SIM on one phone. It also comes with mobile Internet running on Visa Mobile Office (VMO) service, Email (Microsoft Exchange, Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL), EVDO and WiFi High Speed Internet, Android market, Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo Messenger.”
Also available in the phone are tools such as; alarm, calculator, calendar, Google map, 5.0 MP Camera,  WAP 2.0, full browser, FM, Bluetooth 2.1, Office Tools and file manager and 2GB Micro SD among others.