RIT offers Smart Mobile Applications in India redefining the mobile phone experience

Ties up with HotSpot Retail exclusively

New Delhi, 1st Sep’09: Mobile phone experience will never be the same again in India. Research and Innovation Technologies (RIT), leading technology player from Dubai has launched mobile software products, which will help detect theft of the mobile handset, track a person precisely on the ground, record all the conversations and take a back up of the entire data of your phone.

HotSpot Retail, India’s first and leading multi-brand mobile and technology retailing company and a venture of Dr. B. K. Modi Group, will be exclusive dealer for these applications in India.

Through this tie-up, RIT is entering into the Indian market and will offer a suite of its cutting-edge mobile applications to the Indian consumers. This suite of applications will be sold under the umbrella brand ‘Orbit’. In the first phase four applications have been launched:
Orbit Record: Two-way voice recorder plus Dictaphone
Orbit Tracker: Personal Activity and GPS tracker (for on-the-ground employee movements)
Orbit Protect: Mobile anti-theft software with advanced GPS
Global Phone Backup: Phone book contacts, tasks and calendar backup and restore software

Commenting on the launch, Naushad Abdulla, CEO & Managing Director, RIT said: “We are pleased to venture into India by partnering with the country’s leading technology retail chain. The mobile market in India is pegged at US$ 16.5 billion (Rs.800 billion or Rs.80,000 crore), out of which value-added services (VAS) constitute 10 percent of the total market. RIT is looking at penetrating this segment through various channels. An outcome of an investment of 50 man-hours, ‘Orbit’ is a suite of technologically advanced mobile applications operational on 2.5G and 3G mobile handsets, available at a very competitive price. We plan to sell more than 10 million applications in the first fiscal.”

Announcing the tie-up, Mr. Sanjeev Mahajan, CEO, HotSpot Retail said: “Indian consumers have the purchasing power and inclination to own good handsets. The powerful & innovative mobile application from RIT will help today’s consumers’ secure their handsets and use them, smartly. This exclusive tie-up will also help deliver on our TCO (Total Customer Offering) model and garner more margins while selling new mobile handsets.”
RIT also announced that it has appointed Speed RechargeTM, a nation-wide Electronic PIN distributor of BSNL prepaid products, as the National Exclusive Distributor for all RIT products. Mr. Vikas Jain, Founder, Speed RechargeTM, said: “We have already identified state-level distributors in 21 States of India. By end of this month all the products will be available at the retail end.”

Product Features:

1. Orbit Record

Orbit Record has been designed keeping the user in mind. Orbit Record is a new-age Call Recorder / Mobile Dictaphone for Symbian Series 60 2nd & 3rd edition devices. Orbit Record has been developed by Research & Innovation Technology (RIT) FZC, UAE. RIT has spent 50 man years to develop cutting-edge mobile applications, including Orbit Record.

Easy to use Orbit Record allows the user to easily record all or just limited calls using Super Memory Light AMR format. The application enables the user to literally record thousands of hours of calls on today’s modern memory cards. These recorded clips can be easily shared via MMS or E-mail. Through this application a mobile phone device can also be utilized as a Dictaphone while not on call.

2. Orbit Tracker
Companies that have to constantly keep track of their employees involved in logistics and sales find it difficult to do so. Research & Innovate Technologies (RIT) introduces Orbit Tracker, a first-of-its-kind global positioning system (GPS)-based mobile phone tracking application that is handy and most effective.

Orbit Tracker delivers the information to a web account, where one can view these reports (movie) 24×7 from any Internet enabled computer or mobile phone. Orbit Tracker can be used on Series 60, Blackberry, iPhone and Windows mobile devices.

3. Orbit Protect

Mobile devices are lost or stolen literally every second in India. With today’s smartphone devices customers not only lose a large investment on the handset, but they also face the risk of their personal or business information being accessed and used.

Research and Innovate Technologies FZC presents Orbit Protect, a cutting-edge, easy-to-install Anti-Theft & Security mobile application that will take care of the capital investment as well as the invaluable data.
4. Global Phone Backup
If content is King, then data is the Emperor. Research & Innovation Technologies introduces cutting-edge, web-based, highly secure encrypted mobile phone data backup solution.

With the help of Global Phone Backup, phone data is now quick and easy with absolute security. The access to account information is done through secure socket layer (SSL) connection. The information stored at Data Centers is implemented with RAID data storage that has full fail-over capability to disaster recovery.

Global Phone Backup supports all major brands of phones such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, LG, Samsun and it is also available for Smart Phones and PDAs. The application works in any country and on any network: 3G, WAP, EDGE, GPRS and WLAN
About Research and Innovation Technologies (RIT)

Research and Innovation Technologies (RIT) FZC is a start-up information technology company headquartered in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The company has been formed with a clear vision to become a prominent player in the mobile applications and accessories sector. RIT derives its strength from a delivery model that is truly global yet cost effective and prudent.

RIT has a strong focus on Research and Innovation and the company believes that only, and only, technological innovations can make the company’s stated vision come true. Within a short-span of time, RIT has showcased its prowess in the mobile application space and it is working on cutting-edge technologies that will help large sections of society deal with day-to-day needs and issues.

About Spice Televentures & HotSpot Retail

Spice Televentures is part of the Dr. BK Modi-led Spice Group (a conglomerate in Telecom, Technology, Entertainment & Financial Services verticals). The Spice Group has a long and rich 30-year history in pioneering products and services in technology, automation, IT and telecoms in the Indian market.
Spice Televentures is the new holding company and promoting company which manages and operates the interests of Spice in the domain of Mobile devices (Spice Mobiles), Mobile Value Added Services (Cellebrum), Application Development (Mobisoc), Mobile & Tech Products Retail (HotSpot), BPO & Back Office Services (Bharat BPO).

HotSpot Retail is a leading mobile & technology-product retailer, voted the best in Customer Service by Mint-Pitch and voted the Best Large Format Retailer in North India by Voice & Data.

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