MOTOMING A 1600, in India.

After a flood of touchscreen launches in India this year, which includes Apple's iPhone, Samsung Omnia and BlackBerry Bold, US-based cell phone maker Motorola is out with its GPS-enabled touchscreen device, MOTOMING A 1600, in India.

Packing a host of multimedia features, the sleek A1600 which comes with a transparent flip cover is Motorola's challenge to other touchscreen smartphones available in the market.

And to add to the festive spark, the phone pleases buyers on the pricing front too. Here's looking into the features.

Motorola's touchscreen phone is GPS-enabled offering navigation maps and landmarks of 30 cities. The phone has satellite based GPS which offers users lifetime free GPS navigation maps.

The phone also offers voice-guided navigation and location based reminders across major national and state highways.

The phone supports turn-by-turn, voice-guided navigation, and easy search of points-of-interest like hotels, colleges, petrol pumps, airports, railway stations, cinemas and tourist attractions. It also provides coverage across national and state highways in India.

According to Motorola MobileDevices India and South West AsiaLloyd Mathias, the phone is Motorola's first GPS-enabled mobile phone. He added that the navigation service is free with no activation charges, independent of mobile networks and can be used even without inserting the SIM card.

The Linux-based phone has a 3.2 megapixel camera and 8X zoom for multiple capture modes.

Among the key multimedia features, the phone comes with MP3 player and Music ID, and provides users direct access to MOTOMUSIC service.

MING A1600 also provides video capture and video playback at 30 fps (frames per second). MOTOMING A1600 supports Class 2 Bluetooth wireless technology, support a talk time of up to approximately 405 minutes and a standby time of approximately 176 hours.More>>