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Lava Mobiles, the India-based smartphone manufacturer, just announced its latest dual-SIM phone : the Lava B8. Aimed at young business professionals and enterpreneurs, the Kava B8 packs an interesting agglomeration of business features and interesting tech. specs.

The Lava B8 features a candy bar phone form factor with a BlackBerry-like physical build which means a physical QWERTY keypad flanked by a track pad joins the 262K color boasting TFT high-resolution 2.3” screen of the unlocked mobile phones.

A 3.2 megapixel camera satiates your desires to shoot pictures and videos in decent quality, and is assisted by a LED flash to help you shoot images/videos in the dark or low-light situations. While the listed specs may sound just decent, know that Lava B8 is a dual-SIMphone and it comes at a really affordable price.

Connectivity options include Bluetooth, wifi phone, FM Radio with recording, Edge and presumably a 3.5mm audio jack (unconfirmed) for plugging in your favorite set of headphones or connecting your home music system to the device.

The Lava B8 phone enables Push Mail support with support for up to 10 email accounts including corporate emails. The device has an onboard storage space of 2GB which can be further expanded to up to16GB to house your favorite media files and office documents.

Other interesting features Java Support, a phonebook capacity of about 2000 entries, an MTK 6235 chipset with a “good processor”, preloaded social networking apps like Facebook, Twitter, Nimbuzz, Snaptu, an integrated motion sensor that can change music tracks and wallpapers at the ‘shake’ of the phone, MP3 player, Opera Mini and much more.

Interestingly, the device is priced at just Rs. 5299 and is now currently on sale across a number of retail stores across India. FlipKart is currently offering the same handset for just Rs. 3,999. An amazing discount, isn’t it.

Seemingly, the Lava B8 business phone is one of the best dual-SIM business phones from Lava Mobiles, and the device seems to have decent set of specs on its shoulders, so looks like an easy deal for people on a tight budget with the preferences of a business phone or youngsters with multimedia and social networking interests.