new delhi the year 2006 will see worlds leading cellphone makers like nokia motorola samsung and sony ericsson fight hard to capture indias rapidly growing handset market which is projected to sell over 40 million mobiles up from 34 million including four million greyparallel in 2005while these companies will roll out madeinindia affordable mobiles for the mass market they will also hardsell the midrange and hightech phones that will become much more visible in the countryprices will range from subrs 1000 entry levels to rs 50000 plus for minilaptop sorts as well as the ones that can play tv which will fulfil communication needs that go well beyond voice callsfeatures like emails gaming tv music and video clips on mobiles will gain ground leading to a spurt in replacement market that would go up to 10 from about 7at the entry level growth will be spurred by cellphone operators bundling handsets with airtime hutch has already tied up with motorola to sell its 300000 madeinindia c115 model which is priced at rs 1700 but has airtime worth rs 700similarly airtels move to offer a lifetime prepaid connection for rs 999 may become an industry norm and attract millions of new subscribers operators will start offering specialprice handsets for such deals at prices even lower than rs 1399colour screens mp3 players and cameras will be taken for granted by people spending around rs 6000 this trend has been set in the past few months and will gather momentum through 2006for instance nokias 6600 a bigscreen feature packed phone which debuted at over rs 25000 some 18 months ago is already available for subrs 10000 motorolas l6 a very thin candybar stripped down version of snazzy flip phone razr over rs 20000 not so long ago is now in the rs 8000 range soon its black version l7 with bigger memory for photos videos mms etc will be on the marketat the high end there will be a greater demand for video and tv compatible phones like nokias nseries n92 and go beyond samsungs recentlylaunched d600 which can play videos recorded on phones on your tv screens through a cablebesides windowsbased phones like o2 will spread rapidly although they will constitute a small percentage of the market