Please suggest phone around 20k for dad

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Hello guys,

Buying a phone for dad. He will use it more as a traditional phone and also for gaming

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So please suggest:

He likes Sony Sola at the moment.

How do you compare it with HTC One?

How about Xperia P or HTC sensation?

Please let me know the best phone quickly experts

thanks,

Go with Xperia P. Local shops will quote 24k pricing though. One V is not recommended and Sensation is discontinued and most likely won't find the same locally.

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How about Samsung galaxy S advance? Xperia P at 25k is out of my budget

Xperia P and Sensation for 22k are the best options right now.

aaryaan said:
How about Samsung galaxy S advance? Xperia P at 25k is out of my budget

S advanced is a bit overpriced. Instead look for Motorola Atrix 2. market price is 21k.

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Motorola doesnt have good after sale services

I suggest to go for Sony Xperia P ...try bargaining a little ..u can easily get it around 23k

One can get Xperia P very easily.
I don't know why you people sat that it is for 25k or 23k

Get Xperia P if u can, otherwise Xperia Sola

Atrix2(yes I know Motorola's service is a mess atm)but it is a fantastic phone for 22k!

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red dragon said:
Atrix2(yes I know Motorola's service is a mess atm)but it is a fantastic phone for 22k!

Xperia P is better at 23k

Nope!I I think op wants the phone for his father.
And elder people prefer phones with decent battery,and they are not bothered about useless benchmark scores or the latest update from Google(ICS is far more buggy than GB anyways)

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Thanks all, I bought Xperia P and I must tell you that it has a fantastic display and an excellent camera (seems better from my galaxy note as well).

Only thing I am struggling to find is the task manager. In my galaxy note, I can free up ram by closing unused applications in one click. The task manager with information about RAM status and running apps etc comes on long pressing the middle button. But even after fiddling with xperia p for 3 hours I am unable to figure out, how can I open the task manager!!! Did Sony leave this out. Some of the games do run slow since I am unable to kill applications.

Edit:
Hmmm.... I am playing Homerun Battle and it definitely shows lag. Even with 1 Gb RAM. This game always ran super smooth on my note having 800 mb ram!!

Told ya to stay away from P!

aaryaan said:
Thanks all, I bought Xperia P and I must tell you that it has a fantastic display and an excellent camera (seems better from my galaxy note as well).

Only thing I am struggling to find is the task manager. In my galaxy note, I can free up ram by closing unused applications in one click. The task manager with information about RAM status and running apps etc comes on long pressing the middle button. But even after fiddling with xperia p for 3 hours I am unable to figure out, how can I open the task manager!!! Did Sony leave this out. Some of the games do run slow since I am unable to kill applications.

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Hmmm.... I am playing Homerun Battle and it definitely shows lag. Even with 1 Gb RAM. This game always ran super smooth on my note having 800 mb ram!!

That is because your note is running ICS I believe and that is an ICS feature. That functionality isn't available in Gingerbread. To stop applications go to Settings - Applications - Manage applications - running apps and then manually stop.

Also remove the McAfee security app.
And as for the game, restart your device once. It seems some rogue app is causing issues. Try stopping unwanted apps with the above method and report back.

@red dragon

What makes you think Atrix 2 would be better ? :-o

It has worse performance than Xperia P. Much worse UI, much worse call quality and the screen is also much worse.

randomuser111 said:
It has worse performance than Xperia P. Much worse UI, much worse call quality and the screen is also much worse.

LOL

so many times worse :mrgreen:

hat is an ICS feature. That functionality isn't available in Gingerbread

Buddy the case is different with every phone, my Incredible S is having gingerbread and it has a task manager.

@aaryaan- download a third party task manager from android market(google play)

@Sam

LOL. Worse yes, not as good

Btw Check your PM!

@aroraanant

I was talking about Sony Gingerbread.

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Some games do not run very well even with 450-500mb free RAM but that could be game specific too. I have not tried heavy ones. Will report back on that.

Charging is super fast. Gets charged from 0 to 75% in around 1 hour.

The phone though comes with a lot of bloatware and not very well thought out arrangement of widgets on the home screens i.e. not very space or design efficient. Had to fiddle a lot to get it right.

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The P has no difficulty running even latest HD games, so it must be some rogue app causing problems.

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BTW just to let people know, I got it for 23750 and that too after vigorous bargaining from a non-sony multi-brand outlet.

Regarding rogue app, I checked the RAM usage before testing some games and there was still 400-500mb unused RAM as I mentioned in my previous post. My note runs much heavier games with less than 250 mb available RAM.

Which latest HD game should I try to be absolutely sure?

randomuser111 said:
@red dragon

What makes you think Atrix 2 would be better ? It has worse performance than Xperia P. Much worse UI, much worse call quality and the screen is also much worse.

Atrix 2 has much better battery,does not have any stupid transparent band(tacky to say the least)
Much worse call quality!?
Where did you find that!!Did you try yourself?
Both of them has sucky u.i!
The only good thing about P is the better screen and probably marginal better audio quality and better results in few absolutely worthless benchmark results.

aaryaan said:
Which latest HD game should I try to be absolutely sure?

Didn't you buy the phone for your father?
BTW,DO NOT install any third party task manager.You do not need them.
250 MB of free RAM is more than sufficient to run any damn HD game!!
Just do not install those cracked apk of HD games(quality of cracked apps for android is extremely poor just like the legit Playstore apps)

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red dragon said:
Didn't you buy the phone for your father?
BTW,DO NOT install any third party task manager.You do not need them.

Buying a phone for my dad does not stop me from having an occasional go at it

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And why do you say that I should not install task manager?

red dragon said:
Atrix 2 has much better battery,does not have any stupid transparent band(tacky to say the least)
Much worse call quality!?
Where did you find that!!Did you try yourself?
Both of them has sucky u.i!
The only good thing about P is the better screen and probably marginal better audio quality and better results in few absolutely worthless benchmark results.

Well design is subjective but I am sure 9 out of 10 people would prefer the Xperia P design over the ugly Atrix 2 design.
And about call quality, I suggest you try both first and then ask me whether or not I tried out both.
Both of them sucky UI ? Well again that's subjective. Sony Timescape UI especially 2012 NXT range is one of the best Android custom UI out there on par with sense. And much ahead of shitty touchwiz and Motoblur. Kinda off topic but I'd even make do with motoblur and Touchwiz over iOS

@aaryan

Try any of these.

The Adventures of Tintin 1.1.2
SHADOWGUN 1.1.0
Dead Space 1.1.38
Max Payne Mobile 1.0
Grand Theft Auto III 1.3
BackStab 1.2.6
Need for Speed™ Hot Pursuit 1.0.62
Pocket RPG 1.14
Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation 1.1.1

Have not tried P,but tried both S and Atrix2,both were fine!

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Okay Sir ! I don't wanna argue anymore with you

I just can't! LOL

@aaryan

Let us know if the above games work well. Also you might wanna check out XDA if you wanna mod the phone

aaryaan said:
And why do you say that I should not install task manager?

Because Android is supposed to clean up the access memory for the newly launched app(but you can not be 100%sure of anything with Android!!)

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Gosh, so much hatred towards Android

That too after using Android right from cupcake till ICS!!(worst part is I am still a mod @xda!)

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red dragon said:
Because Android is supposed to clean up the access memory for the newly launched app(but you can not be 100%sure of anything with Android!!)

Probably that is because Android only cleans memory (by closing other opened or paused applications) by itself when a running application demands excess memory which is currently unavailable.

randomuser111 said:
@aaryan

Try any of these.

The Adventures of Tintin 1.1.2
SHADOWGUN 1.1.0
Dead Space 1.1.38
Max Payne Mobile 1.0
Grand Theft Auto III 1.3
BackStab 1.2.6
Need for Speed™ Hot Pursuit 1.0.62
Pocket RPG 1.14
Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation 1.1.1

Awsome! will lay my hands on these soon.

galaxy s advance is a best choice and price is.slashing too...
check out its best for 23k.
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The OP has already bought a phone.
And apart from that Advance is not worth the price