HTC is in exclusive partnership with Bharti Airtel, India's leading telecom company. HTC plans to aggressively market its new offering to double its overall sales from 100 thousand units sold last year in India.

    Priced at 27,500 rupees, or almost 640 U.S. dollars, HTC Touch Diamond will be available from the second week of June in 25 cities.

    The new touch screen phone comes with three-dimensional interface called TouchFLO3D. It provides animated access to people, messaging, e-mail, photos, music, weather and more. Touch Diamond comes with a 2.8-inch display and provides near-print quality viewing of photographs and a perfect Web browsing experience.

    HTC President and CEO Peter Chou said India was an important market for the company. Therefore, the new product was being launched much before the United States, Japan and European markets, barring England.

    "We are targeting a sale of 50,000 units of Touch Diamond phones this year," he added.