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Need a touch screen phone within 20k

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Sreeejith Original post #1
Jun 12, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Can anybody suggest me a good touch screen phone? My budget is Rs.20,000
These are my requirements

*good/decent music and video playback
*good camera
*long battery life
*wifi

I heard about Nokia 5800. But after reading some reviews i found that it has some problems with wifi. Is that true?
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k4ce #2
Jun 12, 2009 at 7:26 PM
i have been researching bout the 5800 myself .. havent heard of wifi problem , but there seems to be some issue regarding build quality on some of the earlier ones
varuog
varuog #3
Jun 12, 2009 at 8:43 PM
5800 is the perfect choice for you. No wifi issues ... The music quality is awesome ...
dreamcatcher
Jun 12, 2009 at 9:31 PM
S8300 touch?? or the pixon??
The good camera part would obviously put 5800 out of the equation. It has the worst camera by miles. Even a 10k phone beats it.
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Jun 13, 2009 at 1:13 AM
As much as i'd hate to say , but 5800 is probably the best for you .

Music is great ,video in that large nHD screen is best i've seen in cellphone . Camera is not good , just usable , video capture is great though , also tv out.

I would have suggested touch diamond , but with its poor battery life its the worst reliable 'phone' .

Btw , from your query about wifi , seems like internet is a big importance for you . And in that case , trust me , get a n95 8gb or n85 or e71. 5800's browsing , though looks very good and 'cool' in paper is not as great as it seems to be. In fact except iphone , no touchscreen browser is ideal for long browsing sessions . The reason is that swipe to scroll in most touchscreen becomes really tiresome after sometime . In a n85 you just have to press a key to scroll with minimum finget movement but in touchscreen , you have to drag your finger repeatedly across a 3.2inch screen to to the equivalant of a single keypress . While this may look cool first , becomes really really tiresome after few minutes of browsing long pages.

Most nokia priority dealer have live demo of 5800 , i'd suggest you to try it . Even if the phone dont have internet , reading through some long help files would give you good idea about browsing experience.