Touchscreen phone within 11k

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My 10 month old motoming was stolen today and i was quite happy with it. I have 2 very good cameras so i am not dying for a camera phone...what i want is a good quality screen, should be very customizable, and have good music playback. Which phones would you suggest i go for?
The options within an 11k budget are HTC P3400i, MotoROKR E6, and again the MotoMING.
if there are any others i am not aware of them. All the abovementioned phones are less than 10k in the market legally. so, what would you guys suggest?? HELP!

I sggest you go for the E6.Or if you want something different then HTC.

E6 lacks 3rd party apps. it's a superb touchscreen phone, rigidly built, superb battery life.

Check these too

HTC 3350
HTC 3400
HTC-S710

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E6 lacks apps??? ... its a linux fone for gods sake..everyone is singing praises about it.. i think the OP should check it out...

but my pick will be HTC Touch

^^ tu phir se aaa gaya??

Linux phone doesn't mean that it's the king!!!

yes. it's a linux phone.

If you buy the latest build, it comes with a firmware for which very few apps work.

In total there are some 20 apps written for this phone. Compare that to hundreds of apps for symbian and winmobile phones.

People praise it because what it does, it does with perfection.

but.

you don't get divx player for this phone. the new firmware is unable to play mplayer and xmms player designed for this phone. And hence, you have to stick to tinny real player that comes in the phone.

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u still posting useless posts??

dude..both are good phones... period..

^^hehe.

@madjeri
HTC Touch comes within 11k ?

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from what i heard in another forum..yea....

but i thght it was for 12.5~13k...

but HTC's bane is 65k color screen... all HTC's ..since Win OS only supports that

Htc P3400

^^me too vote for P3400.

HTC Touch is more of a headache with it's slow and buggy user interface. P3400 is much better.

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thanks for all your suggestions, and i have used the ming and the ming and rokr are essentially the same, so yes it has very little customizable options.
but still the ming was a darn good phone. i had dropped it quite a few times and it gave me no trouble at all.
now there is one confusion with the htc p3400i- the reviews say its windows mobile 6.0 and 256k color tft screen
whereas the htc indian website is listing it as windows mobile 5.0 and only 64k color screen.
can anyone clarify this? the screen res i can see would be a problem.
but processor wise and ram wise i think the htc is much better than the moto phones, it has to be, its running a more demanding OS.
again, thanks for the the suggestions, i will be waiting for a stronger verdict and the clarifications.

^^ it's win mobile 5 + 65k color screen.

If you likde motoming very much, wait for Motorola ZN4

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All Windows Mobile phones have 65K colour screens which is the limitation of WinMo itself although the phones are actually capable of displaying 256K.
Regarding Operating System - You can easily upgrade it to WM6.1 yourself - either through official release from HTC or by ROM released by various developers - check XDA-developers forum for that.
I had purchased one HP Ipaq 6828 which is WM5 - and HP never published an upgrade. But still I'm running WM6.1 - courtesy XDA-developers forum.
Hat off to the developers there.

So if your budget is strictly within 10k go for HTC P3400i - around 9K.
Else go for Touch or HTC P3350 (Love) - both around 13 -13.5 .
You can also try ASUS p527 - lots of feature (GPS)- there is a deal at Indiatimes by 1stwholesellers for 13K including shipping. But resale value and support for ASUS phones will be a problem.

yes, p3400...that will be good..except for gps...thanks to xda. modding is not a problem .
i have not used touch...can't say about it.i didn't find a need to buy it.same proc & ram, just the addition of gps.

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thanks for your suggestions guys, i greatly appreciate your help. Today a friend of mine kept advising me that a touchscreen phone would conk off within a year and so i forced myself to look at non touchscreen options...(i have avoided slider phones cause i have seen how bad it can become after one hard knock)
And i noticed a few phones well within 10k
all of them seem to have decent reviews. the lg dynamite kg320 is only around 7k and it has a 3mp camera too!
the nokia expressmusic 5310 has a great screen and its still less than 10k
and finally fly E 105 this is only 8.3k and its a touch screen phone with a 3mp camera with flash.the config is impressive, but i have no idea how fly phones are.Anyone who has used them? and i know its not a windows mobile phone. so what OS is it running?
not that i am in dire need of a camera, thats a secondary priority. what i would truly like, is a phone with a great screen and a universal headset jack..which narrows it down to only the rokr and the 5310...but still i am open to suggestions.
till now the most ideal phones seem for me to be the motorokr, and the HTC Gene P3400i as far as touchscree phones go,but i keep hearing nightmare stories about htc phones having problems with service, parts and viruses. HELP PLEASE! ONLY 36 hours before i go to buy.

i seem to have dragged on this discussion for what seems like eons, and if i have wasted any of your time , then i apologize and let me say again, i greatly appreciate your help.

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All WM phones will have problems of virus if not used carefully. I've also heard regarding bad service of HTC. Also stay away from Fly.
In the range of 11K there is not much option of touchscreen phones.
You can look at Asus P320 also @around 12K else buy a 2nd hand phone or drop the idea for a touchscreen and go for a Nokia Symbian phone - u'll get a good one in ur budget.

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so if i go for a non touchscreen phone then the best option is the nokia 5310? the 5310 and the rokr are the only ones below 10k that has a universal 3.5mm headphone jack right?
and if i still opt for touchscreen the motorokr e6 still seems to have everything i was looking for-3.5mm jack, touchscreen, 2mp cam, and linux os which makes it more secure.

i have not yet got a virus problem with p3400 till now. its been stable and good for me so far.

tamalsen said:
so if i go for a non touchscreen phone then the best option is the nokia 5310? the 5310 and the rokr are the only ones below 10k that has a universal 3.5mm headphone jack right?
and if i still opt for touchscreen the motorokr e6 still seems to have everything i was looking for-3.5mm jack, touchscreen, 2mp cam, and linux os which makes it more secure.

touchscreens going kaput after a year is absolute bullshit.

Don't even think of 5310. It will be in top 10 list of buggy phones.

For near 12k check these:

1) Samsung i450
2) Motorola Razr2
3) Sony Ericsson W580i
4) Nokia N73

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tamalsen said:
so if i go for a non touchscreen phone then the best option is the nokia 5310? the 5310 and the rokr are the only ones below 10k that has a universal 3.5mm headphone jack right?
and if i still opt for touchscreen the motorokr e6 still seems to have everything i was looking for-3.5mm jack, touchscreen, 2mp cam, and linux os which makes it more secure.

If you don't need lots of 3rd party applications then E6 is for you. BTW you can always have 2.5mm to 3.5mm adapters (~50 Rs.) or Nokia adapters (a bit costly - around 300-400 bucks) which will let you connect 3.5mm adapters to your phone.
You can also look for SE phones - u'll get some god ones in this range.
Check this thread - lots of info :
*www.techenclave.com/mobile-phones/the-mobile-phone-advisor-101785.html

all htc devices hv 64k touchscreen
p3400 has windows mobile 5.0
p3400i has windows mobile 6.1 pro n its within 9.3k

any windows mobile devices os can be upgraded...so thats not a problem...in that case if he is getting p4300 cheaper than p3400i...then go for p3400 ..you can easily upgrade to wm 6.1.

*forum.xda-developers.com/

go here

Motorola has launched a new touch handset in its YUVA series .... its the Moto YUVA A810 ... More Info

@desibond, whats the price of HTC S710 in Bangalore ?

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I think HTC P3400i will be fine.

Should be around 14k.

^^ wat p3400i?? lol...it is jst for 9.3k with 1 gb card preloaded....

In case you are getting a non-touchscreen phone, then get the Nokia 5320. It is a Symbian S60 based phone with a 2" 16 million colour display, 3.5 mm headphone jack and a 2mp camera. It is better than Nokia 5310 and costs only 10k.

bhushan05d251 said:
^^ wat p3400i?? lol...it is jst for 9.3k with 1 gb card preloaded....

was talking about S710

^^oops..sory...i thot that...

y not go for MOTO ROKR E8

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Why don't go ahead and try Moto ROKR.

HTC P3400i is the thing..