MoFirst to launch smartphones in regional languages by March 2015

Indian technology startup MoFirst Solutions Pvt. Ltd. has plans to launch regional language based smartphones, whose patented technology will allows user to change languages with just a swipe across India by March 2015.

"Language is one of biggest barriers thats prevents people from using mobile phone functions exhaustively. We have launched and tested response to smartphones that supports Gujarati language. By March 2015, we will launch phones for all regional languages," MoFirst Solutions Co-founder and CEO Rakesh Deshmukh told PTI.

The company, founded in December 2008, has developed smartphones under the brand name Firstouch, in which it has installed its patented technology for the translation and transliteration from English to regional languages and vice-versa.

"Our swipe technology helps customer to communicate in regional as well as in English even if they don't know one of these languages. A message typed in regional language can be translated to English by swiping finger left to right and transliterated by swiping finger right to left," Deshmukh said.

He added that customers have the option to keep all menus of the phones in a regional language and even the application store.

The company has plans to launch Firstouch phones in Hindi and Marathi in July, Tamil, Telugu and Bengali by September, Kannada and Malayalam by November and rest of the regional languages by March 2015.

They will launch 10 models of the Firstouch phones, priced between Rs.3,500 and Rs.12,500, in over the next year, Deshmukh said.

Via : PTI