Spice Stellar Horizon Mi-500 availability delayed to end-August

New Delhi: The feature-rich and attractively priced Spice Stellar Horizon Mi-500 attracted a lot of media and consumer attention when it was first announced in early June. The phone was expected to hit stores in late June, which was subsequently deferred to end-July and now the availability has been further pushed back by a month and is likely to be available by late August or early September.

In response to an IBNLive query a Spice Mobile representative said, "The phone is expected to be available in the market by end-August/1st week of September. Although, we are trying our best to make it available for our customers as earlier as possible."

The Rs 11,999 Spice Stellar Horizon Mi-500 is a 5-inch dual-SIM Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) smartphone powered by a 1 Ghz Snapdragon processor and 512 MB RAM. It has 4 GB of internal memory (expandable to 32 GB).

The Spice Stellar Horizon Mi-500 is now expected to be available in the market by by end-August or the first week of September.

The phone also includes a 5 megapixel rear camera and a VGA front camera and a 2150 mAh battery.

Of the three new phones announced by Spice in June this year - Spice Stellar Horizon Mi-500, Spice Stellar Mi-425 and Spice Stellar Craze Mi-355 - only the Mi-425 has gone on sale (Read our review of the Spice Stellar Mi-425).

Also See

• Review: Spice Stellar Mi-425 falls a little short
• Spice launches 5-inch Android ICS phone for Rs 12,000

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