Contributor /Manila Standard Today
23 June 2008
Veteran actor and TV host Edu Manzano is endorsing a new line of mobile phone products from China’s leading television and mobile phone manufacturer Konka Group.
With more than 1.6 million units of mobile phone sold in China alone, the Konka Group gears up for international expansion by establishing production bases in India, Indonesia, Mexico and recently in Turkey. The company aims to widen its market by introducing TV and mobile phone products across the globe starting in Asia and in the US.
Now, the Konka Group is trying to tap the Philippine market by introducing Konka mobile phones together with the other electronic products it manufactures. In the recent media launch of the new mobile brand at the Manila Hotel, “Papaya” dance craze proponent Edu Manzano officially endorsed the new line of mobile phones that clings to its tagline: “World-class quality need not to be expensive.”
“Before we do not embrace technology, but now, technology is part of our everyday life.
Two months ago, people from Konka asked me to try their product and the mobile phone instantly impressed me. It’s lightweight, the screen is so clear, not to mention that it is touch screen, and it has impressive features. It impressed me because the phone comes in a very reasonable price,” Manzano shared during an interview with Standard Today.
Manzano stressed during the media launch that Konka mobile phones can provide consumers true and long-lasting value for their money because the products are not just cheap they are of high quality supported by international acknowledgments. In 1997, Konka was the first Chinese TV producer to obtain both the International and Domestic ISO9001 and ISO14001. In January 2000 at the Las Vegas International Consumer Electronic Fair, Konka won the award for Innovation.
“I would never endorse alcohol or cigarette, I am more for something that allows me to communicate real message to the consumer, something that is useful to them,” Manzano revealed. “Timing is essential. Konka has a phone that has a dual SIM feature and surprisingly both of them work actively. You can receive a call while talking to someone and all you have to do is just put him on hold,” he added.
With three world-class R&D centers in China and one in the US, Konka is successfully developing a series of new generation electronics and telecommunications products with high market adaptability and competitiveness, including large-screen color TV, Combo TV, Digital TV, LCDTV, and Plasma screen.
The Konka phone
Konka Group president Nu Wei Dong, who was also present during the event, stated that Konka is a technology within your reach for the products are of prime quality yet still affordable.
For its initial offering for the Filipino consumers, Konka Group introduces: T808, the most expensive phone with a price at around P8000, is a mobile TV with 3-inch screen that receives free channels, an FM radio with dual speaker (3D stereo) and operates without a headset, a 2.0 mega pixel camera, a mobile phone with MP3 and MPEG 4 player and functions with dual Bluetooth; E111, the cheapest phone that costs at around P2,000, functions as an FM radio with MP3 and MPEG 4 playback; E222 phone works with a dual SIM/dual active support feature and is also a 1.3-mega pixel camera; E167 is a versatile phone that stores more than 500 phonebook entries; and E169 model that only weights only 80 grams, functions as an FM radio, and an MP3 and MPEG 4 player.
The Konka Group is optimistic that Filipino consumers will patronage its mobile product. Dong was pleased to announce that T808 is already sold-out after its release two months ago.
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