Android phone within 10 to 15K

Hi, one of my friend wants to buy an android phone on a budget of 10 k.Please suggest.
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1. Budget?
Ans: 10,000
2. Display type and size?
Ans: Not sure
3. Form Factor? bar, slider, flip?
Ans:Bar
4. Preferred choice of brand?
Ans: HTC,LG,Sony,Motorola
5. Preferred input method (QWERTY, touchscreen, numpad, touch-n-type).
Ans:touchscreen
6. What camera option you want? Please specify need for flash, autofocus, front facing camera.
Ans:Not much important
7. Preferred operating system? (Android, Symbian, iOS, Windows Phone etc).
Ans: Android
8. Preferred connectivity options (3G, Wifi etc)Please specify clearly.
Ans:3G, Wifi
9. Preferred applications (Flash, Swype, GPS, etc)?
Ans:Flash,GPS
10. Primary use of handset (multimedia, camera, mails, internet, gaming etc)?
Ans:multimedia, camera, mails, internet,
11. Any specific mobile phones in consideration?
Ans:Sony Tipo looks promising except for the battery backup
12. Any other info that you want to share
Ans:Need good battery backup.Infact it is the most important factor and if required will increase the budget by 2 to 5K as this will be used for office purpose like mailing and long conference calls.

akshaykumar12 said:
HTC Mobiles Desire C is best in this Budget and according to your requirements.

AVOID DESIRE C !! Super laggy phone.

@op check out Huawei Ideos X5 Pro / Xperia Tipo instead.

AlphaQ said:
AVOID DESIRE C !! Super laggy phone.

@op check out Huawei Ideos X5 Pro / Xperia Tipo instead.

Huawei Ideos X5 Pro comes with gingerbread. I need a phone with either ICS or Jellybean or that can be upgraded to jellybean. How is the battery backup of tipo?.Somewhere i read a talktime of 5 hours. Basically, my friend is migrating from BB to android platform. So he needs the good of BB (email client), and advantages of android.Also, he needs wifi hotspot

jackal_79 said:
Huawei Ideos X5 Pro comes with gingerbread. I need a phone with either ICS or Jellybean or that can be upgraded to jellybean. How is the battery backup of tipo?.Somewhere i read a talktime of 5 hours. Basically, my friend is migrating from BB to android platform. So he needs the good of BB (email client), and advantages of android.Also, he needs wifi hotspot

X5 Pro already got ICS Upgrade and IMO no smartphone w/ 512 MB Ram will get official JB Upgrade

pratyush997 said:
X5 Pro already got ICS Upgrade and IMO no smartphone w/ 512 MB Ram will get official JB Upgrade

Possibly. But there will be budget droids with 512 mb RAM.

Hauwei Ascend g600 should fall under 15k !
It got 786 MB RAM and other cool specs

pratyush997 said:
X5 Pro already got ICS Upgrade and IMO no smartphone w/ 512 MB Ram will get official JB Upgrade

a-raam said:
Possibly. But there will be budget droids with 512 mb RAM.

depends on the hardware actually. Xperia J with 512MB ram will get JB update mainly because the amount of ram dedicated to GPU is less. So more free memory for the system to use. Xperia Sola/U won't get JB update because 1/3 memory is dedicated to GPU and Android OS will use up the rest. No free ram left for user and so apps will lag and slow down.

What I actually meant was an Android phone with Ics or that can be upgraded from Ics to jb. Jb is not mandatory.

X5 pro will suit you just well.. the processor is capable of OCing to 2.0 ghz, better than any budget dual cores

Nerevarine said:
X5 pro will suit you just well.. the processor is capable of OCing to 2.0 ghz, better than any budget dual cores

Well, my friend will not be doing any OC'ing or rooting. And he prefers Samsung or HTC.

D

what is the processor in Hauwei Ascend g600

a crappy A5 one, dont go for it

Any thoughts on Pantech burst? @ 8-9k ??

Nerevarine said:
a crappy A5 one, dont go for it

Its the Snapdragon S3 chipset mate, if I am not wrong. And those are really powerful. Cortex A9 I guess.

Can someone suggest from HTC, Samsung or Motorola?

:bump

HTC One V, SOny xperia Sola w/o warranty on ebay!

pratyush997 said:
HTC One V, SOny xperia Sola w/o warranty on ebay!

HTC one v goes outside budget and Sony xperia sola comes with gingerbread, not ICS.

sola has official ICS, id reccomend it too for 14.5 k at flipkart

Xperia J and Sola are available at almost same price, considering that Xperia J is a very good option in budget of 15k, One can even have a look at Desire V

a-raam said:
Its the Snapdragon S3 chipset mate, if I am not wrong. And those are really powerful. Cortex A9 I guess.

Snapdragon S3 is a family of chipsets, the one in Desire C has the lowest possible model of S3... The QSD 8255 (S2) is around 15% faster than a MSM 7225A (S3) at stock speeds..
But QSD8255 can be oced to a whopping 2.0 ghz, which gives speeds better than all budget dual cores

avoid Xperia J at all costs..seriously who in their right minds would spend 15 k for an adreno 200 ? LOL
Xperia Sola is good, but there are some issues with it, that are coming up lately

If OP wants to go for One V, then id suggest a Neo L instead.. ( same everything but bigger screen and less price)

I have a new suggestion. OP should look at the Micromax A116 Canvas HD.

a-raam said:
I have a new suggestion. OP should look at the Micromax A116 Canvas HD.

My friend only want from htc, Samsung or maybe from Sony. Also, as explained initially he is migrating from bb. His usage will also be similar. Importance will be for mail usage, with good talk time and battery backup and browsing.

Is there any good one from LG on this range?

Increase budget by 2-3k and get L9

theserpent said:
Increase budget by 2-3k and get L9

+1, there is nothing close to the l9 in that range...

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for 10k
how is htc desire s at 9999(ebay dealer warranty i know the risks) but is this good value for money
than huawei and xperia tipo