HCL Frontline launches mobile PC products from Toshiba

HCL Frontline, the distribution arm of HCL Infosystems, has announced the launch of a slew of Toshiba products, aimed specifically at the Indian market. In line with the global trend of notebook PCs outselling Desktops, HCL Frontline is targeting an increase of 70 percent-80 percent in mobile products in India by introducing a number of state-of-the-art mobile and technology products from Toshiba. HCL Frontline is the exclusive distributor for Toshiba notebooks in India. 

Foremost among the technology products launched, the Pocket PC e310 is the a light and thin pocket PC, with all the latest MS and other application software and has a battery life of up to 10 hours. The other products include a hard disk the size of a PCMCIA card with a storage capacity of 2GB and upwards, making it convenient for data to be carried in a pocket, and a finger print reader that, unlike other brands of cards, works at the BIOS level itself. 

The other product launched by HCL Frontline in the notebook segment is the Pentium 4 based Satellite 2400, which comes integrated with Bridge Media Technology. HCL is also introducing a fully loaded notebook at a price of Rs 75,990. This value performance model is designed with a 1.2 GHz processor 128 MB RAM, 20 GB Hard Disk, 24X CD, Win XP Home and comes with a one-year international warranty. 

Talking about the distribution strategy for the Indian market, Rajendra Kumar, Vice President - Operations, HCL Frontline Division said, "There is definitely a huge potential in the Home and SOHO segment, as is evident in the impressive growth shown by this sector. We are in the process of expanding our retail network across the country. These Toshiba retail stores will display the entire range of Toshiba mobile products including Notebooks, Pocket PC and LCD Projectors." 

HCL FrontLine is also offering easy finance schemes, easier trade-in of the customer's old Notebooks and insurance schemes to Home, SOHO and the SME segments, by way of the relationship being forged at the national level with the leading players in these segments. Corporate customers can look forward to lease and rental offers that enable them to plan their outflow on IT investment over a period of 24 to 36 months, against making a hundred per cent investment upfront.

Cyber News Service