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Spica Unavailable, Buy I7500 or Wait?

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lolcat Original post #1
May 25, 2010 at 10:45 AM
Hello people,

I Finally decided to buy a Spica, but unfortunately, Its unavailable in all of the market in and around Vikas Marg, East Delhi. Only one dealer is offering it a ridiculous 15.5K and the rest are saying Samsung discontinued it. :(

Do you guys know anywhere I get it for less than 12K?

I was offered i7500 (Galaxy) at almost every store for 11.5K. Should I go for it instead of the Spica? I'm just worried about getting an outdated OS with a weak CPU, rest the phone is great. Will froyo come to i7500?

Also, there are rumours on the net about samsung i5800, a hybrid between i7500 and spica.

So should I buy the i7500, wait for i5800 or look around more for spica?

Thanks
sriharsha_madineni
May 25, 2010 at 11:27 AM
Hello people,

I Finally decided to buy a Spica, but unfortunately, Its unavailable in all of the market in and around Vikas Marg, East Delhi. Only one dealer is offering it a ridiculous 15.5K and the rest are saying Samsung discontinued it. :(

Do you guys know anywhere I get it for less than 12K?

I was offered i7500 (Galaxy) at almost every store for 11.5K. Should I go for it instead of the Spica? I'm just worried about getting an outdated OS with a weak CPU, rest the phone is great. Will froyo come to i7500?

Also, there are rumours on the net about samsung i5800, a hybrid between i7500 and spica.

So should I buy the i7500, wait for i5800 or look around more for spica?

Thanks
i7500 hasn't even got 2.1 Eclair support, let alone Froyo.

And that rumored i5800 aka Galaxy 3 is placed tad below Spica, so going for Spica now would be a better deal, else you can wait for HTC Wildfire
M
May 25, 2010 at 12:04 PM
buy from gurgaon sec. 14 market
almost every mobile shop there has one
i bought spica with 2.1 yesterday for 12.1k :)

---------- Post added at 12:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:58 AM ----------

buy from gurgaon sec. 14 market
almost every mobile shop there has one
i bought spica with 2.1 yesterday for 12.1k :)
P
May 29, 2010 at 10:34 PM
Hey Manan,

Can you tell me which all shops you looked? Especially, where did u purchase? I am planning to go to Gurgaon sec 14 market tomorrow (30th May) to buy this phone. Most shops are telling me that this phone is not available.

Thnaks in advance,
Pradeep
M
May 29, 2010 at 11:40 PM
i got it from Spice Communications, Sec. 14, Gurgaon
Another shop Cell WLL beside it also had this mobile.
dreamcatcher
May 29, 2010 at 11:45 PM
Now that the X10 mini is out..you can try it too.
P
Jun 7, 2010 at 12:33 AM
Got the spica (on 30th May) at 12.1k (with proper bill etc) from Spice communications at Sec 14, Gurgaon. Thanks Manan for the directions.

Pradeep