Dubai-based start-up IltoneTel has announced their first handset designed for the Islamic community, the Ilkone i800. While the phone itself isn’t that interesting in and of itself (it’s even promoted as being “moderate looking”), the software provides some interesting and useful tools, including Hijri and Gregorian calendars (including date conversion), 5-method Qibla direction (for determining the correct direction in which to pray), English and Uthmanic versions of the Quran, and alarms with prayer times for more than 5000 cities (including the “azan voice,” an audible call to prayer). The i800 should be available before year’s end in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, and India (but not Dubai?)
Their marketing material is surpisingly fun, too, as you can see.
Read – Product Page [Ilkonetel via ADMBlog]
