Handset manufacturer, Lemon Mobiles has announced the launch of a new affordable touch screen mobile phone called, iT 717 in the Indian market.

The Lemon iT 717 has a 3-inch touchscreen display offering clear sharp appearance and supports two GSM SIM cards. The candy bar phone also features a 3.2 mega pixel camera a host of new features at an economical price range.

The phone has an internal memory of 20 MB which can be expanded up to 8GB through a microSD card. The 1100mAh battery of the device offers talk time of up to 5 hours and a standby time of up to 8 hours.

The phone comes preinstalled with Nimbuzz IM allowing users to access various messenger services including Yahoo, AOL, MSN and Gtalk and Opera Mini browser for faster internet experience. Users can save upto 2000 contacts and upto 500 SMS messages in the phone memory.

Among multimedia features it offers, FM radio, voice recorder, video recorder, video player with support for MP4, 3GP and AV-Motion JPEG and a music player with support for various formats including MP3, AAC, MIDI and WAV.

As for connectivity solutions it offers, Bluetooth and USB support. The phone comes with other features like sync outlook feature and access to GPRS, WAP and MMS.

The Lemon Mobile iT 717 is priced at Rs 4,499 in the Indian market.