Philips has returned to the Indian smartphone market with three new phones, the S308, W3500, and W6610, priced at Rs. 8,290, Rs. 16,195 and Rs. 20,650 respectively. Philips also launched feature phone, the E130, at Rs. 1,960.
 
The first phone in the series is W6610 that features 5 inch qHD IPS display and packs a 5300 mAh battery. W6610 comes with an ingenious Power-saving switch and provides talk time of up to 33 hours and web browsing time of up to 16 hours. The phone has a fast-charging feature and multi-faceted power management system. W6610 is powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core processor for multitasking.
 
The Philips S308 is an Android 4.2 Jelly Bean-based mid-range smartphone. It supports dual-SIM (GSM+GSM) functionality with dual standby. The S308 features a 4 inch TFT display with 480 x 800 pixels resolution and sports a curvilinear design. It is powered by 1GHz dual-core processor with 512MB RAM. It includes a 4GB of inbuilt storage which is further expandable up to 32GB using microSD card. The Philips S308 sports a 5 megapixel rear camera with LED flash, while there is no word on the front-facing camera. It will be available in Black, Blue, Red, White, and Yellow colour variants.
 
The Philips W3500 also offers dual-SIM (GSM-GSM) support and runs Android 4.2 Jelly Bean out-of-the-box. The new Android smartphone from Philips features a 5 inch FWVGA display with 480 x 854 pixel resolution. It is powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core processor with 1GB RAM. It sports a 5 megapixel rear camera with LED flash and also comes with a 2 megapixel front-facing camera. It includes 4GB of inbuilt storage that can be expanded up to 32GB via microSD card.

                                                     
 
For connectivity it includes Bluetooth, GPS/ A-GPS, Wi-Fi, GPRS/ EDGE and 3G support. The W3500 has a 2200 mAh battery.
 
The fourth phone in the series is E130, which is a dual-SIM low range phone. The phone has an inbuilt MP3 player and also houses a FM Radio. The phone is equipped with Bluetooth connectivity, a 3.5mm audio jack and a torchlight. It supports MicroSD cards of up to 32GB.
 
Philips Mobile has announced that it has tied up with Redington as distribution partner to market the newly launched devices across the country. However, the company did not reveal the availability details of any of the devices. The company also revealed that it has partnered with Accel Frontline for after sales service of the handsets.