HotSpot Retail ties up with RIT to offer mobile applications

MUMBAI: Mobile and technology retailing company HotSpot Retail today said it has tied up with Research and Innovation Technologies (RIT) to offer a suite of mobile applications to the Indian consumers.

This suite of applications will be sold under the umbrella brand Orbit and will offer a host of features, including mobile tracker, mobile protect, handset back-up and a beep-free dictaphone, the company said in a statement here.

"The powerful and innovative mobile application from RIT will help today's consumers secure their handsets and use them smartly," HotSpot Retail CEO Sanjeev Mahajan said.

This exclusive tie-up would also help deliver on our TCO (Total Customer Offering) model and garner more margins while selling new mobile handsets, he said.

"Orbit is a suite of technologically advanced mobile applications operational on 2.5 G and 3 G mobile handsets, available at a very competitive price. We plan to sell more than 10-million applications in the first fiscal," RIT CEO and Managing Director Naushad Abdulla said.

HotSpot Retail, a part of B K Modi-led Spice Group, is a leading mobile and technology-product retailer.

Research and Innovation Technologies is a start-up information technology company headquartered in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE.

It is a prominent player in the mobile applications and accessories sector.