The word is Samsung has now announced the new Samsung Mpower 699 mobile phone for India reports samsunghub, and the Samsung Mpower 699 has been manufactured in partnership with Qualcomm, and will be the world’s first CDMA handset to use Open Market Handset tech.

As the Samsung Mpower 699 is an OMH handset it can be used on any CDMA network in India such as Tata Indicom, Reliance, and MTS as well as in other countries.

The Samsung Mpower 699 mobile phone sports a 1.3 megapixel camera, music player, mobile tracker, FM radio and microSD expansion, and should become available in March 2010 and command a price tag of 7100 INO which is roughly $145.