South Korean electronics giant, Samsung has announced the launch of two new smartphones in its Galaxy family of smartphones in India.

Samsung launched Galaxy S Duos and Galaxy Y Duos Lite smartphones in the Indian market. Both the new smarphones support dual-SIM and will allow users to use two mobile phone connections simultaneously and stay connected in a better manner.

The Galaxy S Duos measures 63.1 x 121.5 x 10.5mm and weighs 120g. The `always on' feature of the phone will allow the users to receive calls on one SIM number while taking a call from the other. It runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system and is powered by a 1GHz Cortex A5 processor..

S Duos has a 4.0-inch screen with a resolution of 480x800 pixels and it also has 5MP camera, VGA front camera, 4GB of built-in storage, 32GB microSD card slot, 512MB of RAM and 1,500 mAh battery. The company is also offering Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB 2.0 for connectivity options in the device.

Samsung's Galaxy Y Duos Lite, which is also known as the Galaxy Pocket Duos outside India, runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system and is powered by an 832MHz processor. It has a 2.8-inch touch display with
240x320 pixels resolution and comes with other features including 2MP camera, built-in storage of 4GB (3GB user available), microSD card slot, and a 1,200 mAh battery.

The Samsung Galaxy S Duos is priced at Rs. 17,900 while the Y Duos Lite smartphone is priced at Rs. 6,990 in the Indian market.