With an awful name like Guru100, Samsung must either be mocking spiritual teachers or in complete denial about their latest super-budget handset’s features; the candybar cellphone, recently launched in India, is intended to boost the sort of functionality people expect at the entry level price-point.  And when you compare it to, say, Spice Telecom’s “People’s Phone“, it does look blessed with exciting capabilities; that could be because the Spice handset lacks even a screen, of course.

What you do get with the Guru100 is dual-band GSM (900/1800MHz), MP3 ringtones (and Samsung helpfully preload two Bollywood hits to get you jiggling) and a 1.5-inch 65,000 colour 128 x 128 display.  It also has dual Hindi and English SMS predictive text dictionaries, weighs 78g and measures a compact 104mm x 44mm x 16.3mm.

It’s available now for INR1949 ($49).

[via Mobile Burn]