Less than a week after the Nokia E7 officially became available for pre-order bookings in India, Nokia has announced the market availability of the phone. The Finnish phone maker has given the ‘all-in-one business smartphone’ a ‘Best Buy’ price of Rs. 29,999 at Nokia Priority Stores, substantially lower than the pre-order booking price of Rs. 35,000.
Just like with the Nokia N8, Nokia has also introduced a zero percent interest easy payment scheme that will allow potential customers to split the total amount over three equal payments, one per month. The scheme is apparently available at 176 Nokia Priority Stores across eight cities – Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Chennai, Ahmadabad and Chandigarh. Nokia has tied up with Citibank, HDFC, Standard Chartered and ICICI for this scheme, necessitating a credit card from one of these banks.
In other news, the Nokia E7 was launched in New Delhi with Shahrukh Khan as the brand ambassador for the phone, being called the “Product Tester in India for Nokia E7.” Nokia also hearkened the Nokia E7 to its game-changing business smartphone of yesteryears, the Nokia Communicator, which was launched back in 1996.
Speaking on the occasion of the launch, Shahrukh Khan commented:
#advanceampads0#Nokia also introduced a couple of new offers and features, such as viewing of three Web TV business channels – CNBC TV18, CNBC Awaaz and Bloomberg – that E7 customers can avail of free-of-cost from the Ovi Store. Though Shahrukh Khan is an airtel brand ambassador as well, Vodafone managed to score an exclusive launch deal with Nokia, offering Vodafone pre-paid and post-paid customers a special data plan – 2GB free per month for 6 months.