ISLAMIC PHONE FEATURES 29 QURAN TRANSLATIONS; POINTS TO MECCA
By Moni Basu, CNN
updated 7:29 AM EST, Wed Dec 7, 2011
The new smartphone has a compass directing India‘s 180 million Muslims towards Mecca for prayers.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
A new Quran mobile phone launched in India final month
India is home to about 180 million Muslims
The ENMAC phone enables Muslims to review the Quran anywhere
It also lets them work out alms, find Mecca and overpower their phones automatically at request times
New Delhi (CNN) — What could presumably be more renouned than the ultimate iPhone? An Indian company is anticipating that between India’s Muslims, it will be the new Quran mobile, a smartphone installed with Islamic features.
The new ENMAC Quran MQ3500 phone, launched final month in India, comes with Islam’s holy book translated in twenty-nine languages and a compass that directs users toward Mecca. Muslims crawl in the citation of the holy city for prayers 5 times a day.
The $76 phone also facilities an Islamic calendar, downloaded holy books, a electronic caclulator for zakat (donation to charity) and an automatic ring silencer that can be set up for request times at mosques.
Niyas Ahmed, a 35-year-old New Delhi engineer, traded in his aged Nokia for the new Quran phone 10 days ago.
“They are on condition that a good service,” he pronounced about being able to review the Quran at your convenience he had time to spare, no make a difference where was.
Network operative Mohammad Mohsin, 28, paid for the phone for his father.
“The judgment is great. It maximizes one’s celebration of the mass time,” he said.
Mohsin pronounced the phone is sure to do well in India. All his father’s friends, he said, are extraordinary about the singly Islamic device that is the initial of the kind in India.
Anuj Kanish, conduct of TolMol, the Indian online more aged selling network that launched the phone, pronounced the Quran mobile is already on behind order. He pronounced it will be more at large accessible in stores starting in January.
ENMAC, a Malaysia-based Islamic digital products company, grown the Quran phone — also accessible in multiform Middle Eastern countries, Pakistan and Malaysia.
But India, pronounced Kanish, has intensity for large sales.
India is home to 180 million Muslims, the world’s third largest Muslim population, and a fast flourishing mobile phone user market. More than 800 million Indians — from the lowest rickshaw pullers to rich entrepreneurs — own mobile phones.
Unlike Hindus, who form a infancy of India’s 1.2 billion people, Muslims have well-defined each day rituals, Kanish said. The Quran phone is perfectly matched for Islam, he said.
Sirajuddin Qureshi, boss of the India Islamic Cultural Center, agreed. He hopes the new dungeon phone will energise seductiveness in Islam.
“Until a Muslim understands the Quran, he cannot assimilate Islam,” Qureshi said. “One should review the Quran each day. This phone will assistance a lot.”
Mohsin, the immature network operative who paid for the phone for his father, wasn’t so sure how the Quran phone would fool around between those of his era who can means more worldly phones.
His friends, he said, may still opt for emails, Facebook and Twitter on an iPhone. Or maybe download an Islamic app. But for millions of other faithful, the Quran phone could only really well be the “in thing.”
By Moni Basu, CNN
updated 7:29 AM EST, Wed Dec 7, 2011
The new smartphone has a compass directing India‘s 180 million Muslims towards Mecca for prayers.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
A new Quran mobile phone launched in India final month
India is home to about 180 million Muslims
The ENMAC phone enables Muslims to review the Quran anywhere
It also lets them work out alms, find Mecca and overpower their phones automatically at request times
New Delhi (CNN) — What could presumably be more renouned than the ultimate iPhone? An Indian company is anticipating that between India’s Muslims, it will be the new Quran mobile, a smartphone installed with Islamic features.
The new ENMAC Quran MQ3500 phone, launched final month in India, comes with Islam’s holy book translated in twenty-nine languages and a compass that directs users toward Mecca. Muslims crawl in the citation of the holy city for prayers 5 times a day.
The $76 phone also facilities an Islamic calendar, downloaded holy books, a electronic caclulator for zakat (donation to charity) and an automatic ring silencer that can be set up for request times at mosques.
Niyas Ahmed, a 35-year-old New Delhi engineer, traded in his aged Nokia for the new Quran phone 10 days ago.
“They are on condition that a good service,” he pronounced about being able to review the Quran at your convenience he had time to spare, no make a difference where was.
Network operative Mohammad Mohsin, 28, paid for the phone for his father.
“The judgment is great. It maximizes one’s celebration of the mass time,” he said.
Mohsin pronounced the phone is sure to do well in India. All his father’s friends, he said, are extraordinary about the singly Islamic device that is the initial of the kind in India.
Anuj Kanish, conduct of TolMol, the Indian online more aged selling network that launched the phone, pronounced the Quran mobile is already on behind order. He pronounced it will be more at large accessible in stores starting in January.
ENMAC, a Malaysia-based Islamic digital products company, grown the Quran phone — also accessible in multiform Middle Eastern countries, Pakistan and Malaysia.
But India, pronounced Kanish, has intensity for large sales.
India is home to 180 million Muslims, the world’s third largest Muslim population, and a fast flourishing mobile phone user market. More than 800 million Indians — from the lowest rickshaw pullers to rich entrepreneurs — own mobile phones.
Unlike Hindus, who form a infancy of India’s 1.2 billion people, Muslims have well-defined each day rituals, Kanish said. The Quran phone is perfectly matched for Islam, he said.
Sirajuddin Qureshi, boss of the India Islamic Cultural Center, agreed. He hopes the new dungeon phone will energise seductiveness in Islam.
“Until a Muslim understands the Quran, he cannot assimilate Islam,” Qureshi said. “One should review the Quran each day. This phone will assistance a lot.”
Mohsin, the immature network operative who paid for the phone for his father, wasn’t so sure how the Quran phone would fool around between those of his era who can means more worldly phones.
His friends, he said, may still opt for emails, Facebook and Twitter on an iPhone. Or maybe download an Islamic app. But for millions of other faithful, the Quran phone could only really well be the “in thing.”