Which is the best among all these Android smartphones under 18k?

I want to buy a smartphone which has the following features:
1)Smooth and cool interface with minimal defects
2)Fast processor with good amount of RAM for multitasking.
3)Sufficient internal memory and expandable microSD
4)Capacitive touchscreen with large screen size.
5)Good dust and scratch resistant screen quality with sharp,vivid color and good visibility in sunlight.
6)Good quality camera 5MP with flash
7)HD Video recording with no stuttering
8)Good music and video playback with good sound quality
9)Since I am not very good with texting on touchphones,comfortable QWERTY layout for easy texting without lot of mistakes.
10)Good Battery Life

I assembled a list of phones
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HTC Incredible
Rs. 19,899

Sony Xperia Sola
Rs. 18,690

HTC Rhyme
Rs. 18,500

Samsung Galaxy SL I9003
Rs. 18,316

Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro
Rs. 18,116

LG Optimus Black
Rs. 17,490

HTC Desire
Rs. 16,750

Sony Ericsson Neo V
Rs. 16,475

HTC One V
Rs. 16,299

Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray
Rs. 15,990

HTC Desire S
Rs. 15,990

Sony Xperia U
Rs. 15,890

LG Optimus Sol E730
Rs. 15,790

I really like the HTC sense UI which is very cool looking.I like the 4" NOVA screen in LG Optimus Black.
Please suggest the best option whcih has the best balance among all these.If there are any upcoming models fitting my needs,do suggest.
If I buy HTC ,how is the service in Kolkata ?Is it good as Nokia ?

Surely Incredible S among these ?

4" , 8 MP . It belongs to the upper league.

Sola is another good choice.

The prices, where are you quoting these from ?

@gohan89: from where u got these low prices?

I wud prefer Incredible S,Xperia Pro,HTC One V

HTC One V or Incredible S
You may also go for Neo V if you like but in my opinion one v, incredible s and desire s are far better than neo v.

Among the all mentioned above Incredible S is the best option.

my option is sony ericsson arc s (20k ebay)

Incredible S is better than Arc, and there is not much difference is Arc and Arc S

aroraanant said:
Incredible S is better than Arc, and there is not much difference is Arc and Arc S

me too planning to buy the Mobile on this weekend, i think it will be better than sony ericsson arc s except lacking the ICS update in Arc s.
the Incredible S is 22 k and the arc s is 19k.

here are my options
1) sony ericsson arc s
2) HTC Incredible S or HTC One V

which one you want me to pick then but i heard that HTC build with bad quality..?

If you want to save money then get One V or Desire S
Otherwise get Incredible S

For 22k you get Sensation which far better than all the above handsets

I am confused between the Xperia S,One V and the Desire S.

How smooth is the One V in terms of gameplay with good graphics and using the sense ui ?I will play games casually and watch HD videos .

If I can always update any phone in my range to Android 4.0, is buying the One V worth it.I also heard its battery is non-removable,will it pose any problem if it hangs ?

Is the HTC Sense really worth using ?

R

^^^Quite likely it may pose a problem (non removable battery). Also smartphone batts wear out fast, so you may not be able to replace battery. Consider that. Further, it (1V) will be useless for navigation.

If the htc one v has non-removable battery,plz suggest an alternative.
How is the HTC service center in India ?

Is it good as Nokia and how fast is the response?

How cool looking is the Xperia U UI?

What problem do you have with one v's non-removable battery ?

gohan89 said:
If the htc one v has non-removable battery,plz suggest an alternative.
How is the HTC service center in India ?

Is it good as Nokia and how fast is the response?

How cool looking is the Xperia U UI?

Dude, where you are getting HTC One V for 16,299? :shock:

I check'd all these phones and in the real world One V is best in your budget.
Incredible is laggy and below average camera, Neo V is also having below average camera.
HTC One V has mind blowing user interface, very fast and camera quality is awesomest, it has backlit image CMOS censor with 2.0/f aperture which produces sharp and decent image even in low light. The build quality is best among competitors and the only problem is it has no front facing camera and low internal memory, but there is a micro SD slot.

Dont waste your money in Xperia U, it has poor battery for a dual core phone and no micro SD slot.

Richie Rich said:
Dude, where you are getting HTC One V for 16,299?
I check'd all these phones and in the real world One V is best in your budget.
Incredible is laggy and below average camera, Neo V is also having below average camera.
HTC One V has mind blowing user interface, very fast and camera quality is awesomest, it has backlit image CMOS censor with 2.0/f aperture which produces sharp and decent image even in low light. The build quality is best among competitors and the only problem is it has no front facing camera and low internal memory, but there is a micro SD slot.

Dont waste your money in Xperia U, it has poor battery for a dual core phone and no micro SD slot.

+1 I agree on bold part
& yes 1350mH battery is very low for Dual Core Xperia U

How is the Xperia Sola when compared to the htc one V?

What happens if the phone hangs or freezes and there is the non-removable battery?

Richie Rich said:
Dude, where you are getting HTC One V for 16,299?

HTC One V - Brown - Sulekha Deals (It was 16,299 couple of days ago)
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Even HS18 is selling One V for just 16,499 rs.

@ OP
Checkout Sulekha's reviews on Mouthshut.com

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Richie Rich said:
Dude, where you are getting HTC One V for 16,299?
I check'd all these phones and in the real world One V is best in your budget.
Incredible is laggy and below average camera, Neo V is also having below average camera.
HTC One V has mind blowing user interface, very fast and camera quality is awesomest, it has backlit image CMOS censor with 2.0/f aperture which produces sharp and decent image even in low light. The build quality is best among competitors and the only problem is it has no front facing camera and low internal memory, but there is a micro SD slot.

Dont waste your money in Xperia U, it has poor battery for a dual core phone and no micro SD slot.

indeed HTC One V seems like ideal mid-range phone replacing Neo V, Defy Plus, Galaxy SL etc. Pricing around 15-16K is nice considering its has 3.7 inch display & ICS.

as we approach 19-20K. HTC Sensation priced below 22K will much better option than anything available around that price.

R

gohan89 said:
If the htc one v has non-removable battery,plz suggest an alternative.
How is the HTC service center in India ?

Is it good as Nokia and how fast is the response?

How cool looking is the Xperia U UI?

HTC seems to have a very bad reputation when it comes to service in India. Scout around on the net and you shall see. However, do check about particular service centers or the service in general in your town. It could differ.

ajaymailed said:
indeed HTC One V seems like ideal mid-range phone replacing Neo V, Defy Plus, Galaxy SL etc. Pricing around 15-16K is nice considering its has 3.7 inch display & ICS.

as we approach 19-20K. HTC Sensation priced below 22K will much better option than anything available around that price.

It is neither ideal nor really a "replacement" for those phones. The phone is useless for navigation and the non removable battery kills the deal, at least for me.

gohan89 said:
How is the Xperia Sola when compared to the htc one V?

What happens if the phone hangs or freezes and there is the non-removable battery?

Xperia Sola is even worse than Xperia U.. same story poor battery.
Nowdays, all new phones that are launching by HTC and Sony is of non-removable battery, as HTC guy said that they put non-removable so that there would be no loss of power with golden pins. :-?

Also, HTC promises that their HTC One series would never be hang, if it happens you can press off button for 5 seconds.
The best thing about the phone is S-LCD2 (non-penlite display) that is better than over saturated pentile super AMOLED display.

Raccoon said:
HTC seems to have a very bad reputation when it comes to service in India. Scout around on the net and you shall see. However, do check about particular service centers or the service in general in your town. It could differ.

It is neither ideal nor really a "replacement" for those phones. The phone is useless for navigation and the non removable battery kills the deal, at least for me.

Yea, HTC use to have bad service but now time has been changed, they open many service centers in couple of years. I visited last week for my friend's Desire phone. They have fine service.

power_8383 said:
HTC One V - Brown - Sulekha Deals (It was 16,299 couple of days ago)
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Even HS18 is selling One V for just 16,499 rs.

@ OP
Checkout Sulekha's reviews on Mouthshut.com

I don't trust Homeshop18, they are fake. They sent a Xperia Neo V phone that is made in thailand to one of my friend. I don't know about sulekha sales.

Xperia U/Sola have lower capacity batteries but their battery life is no better or worse than other smartphones with larger batteries. The U8500 chipset is highly power efficient.

randomuser111 said:
Xperia U/Sola have lower capacity batteries but their battery life is no better or worse than other smartphones with larger batteries. The U8500 chipset is highly power efficient.

As mentioned in gsmarena.com xperia sola has only 5 hours of 3G talktime & Xperia U has up to 5 h 36 min whereas One V has full 10 hours of 3G talk time.

Also those phone have Sony's LED-backlit LCD screen, with poor viewing angle.

S-LCD2 > SAMOLED > Sony LED-backlit LCD

Theri is no with no micro SD slot and who wants a phone now days with 8 GB (5 GB user available).

These new sony phones have no mass storage feature and their headset is only compatible with sony brand. Putting files from computer to phone is very very slow with their sony software.

@Richie Rich: u have done a lot of R&D on HTC & Sony :grin:

gohan89 said:
I am confused between the Xperia S,One V and the Desire S.

How smooth is the One V in terms of gameplay with good graphics and using the sense ui ?I will play games casually and watch HD videos .

If I can always update any phone in my range to Android 4.0, is buying the One V worth it.I also heard its battery is non-removable,will it pose any problem if it hangs ?

Is the HTC Sense really worth using ?

I think you mean Xperia U and not S, U is not good coz it doesn't have a expandable memory and only 4GB memory is not enough I think.
One V is a very good phone, the only cons are it doesn't have a front facing camera and FM radio which are there in Desire S. You can get anyone of them among Desire S and One V, both are good.
And non removable battery won't pose any problem atleast till 2yrs
And HTC Sense is the best UI out there.

gohan89 said:
If the htc one v has non-removable battery,plz suggest an alternative.
How is the HTC service center in India ?

Is it good as Nokia and how fast is the response?

How cool looking is the Xperia U UI?

HTC service is pretty good, better than sony but they have limited service centers, I have written about their service experience in RMA section.
And you comparing nokia with HTC, seriously!!!
Anyways HTC phones are much better than Nokia.
The UI of Xperia phones is also pretty good.

gohan89 said:
How is the Xperia Sola when compared to the htc one V?

Sola seems to be good, but they have given quite a small battery in that which will give trouble and also as such no reviews are available so can't say much about it and it is not even available in market right now widely so let it come in market and then we can say more about it.

even Apple devices have non-removable batteries still they r excellent in performance :-D

aroraanant said:
One V is a very good phone, the only cons are it doesn't have a front facing camera and FM radio which are there in Desire S. You can get anyone of them among Desire S and One V, both are good.

FM + RDS is there in One V :mrgreen:

Few days back I read on gsmarena, and it was not there and suddenly it shows there that it has....

R

Richie Rich said:
Xperia Sola is even worse than Xperia U.. same story poor battery.
Nowdays, all new phones that are launching by HTC and Sony is of non-removable battery, as HTC guy said that they put non-removable so that there would be no loss of power with golden pins.
Also, HTC promises that their HTC One series would never be hang, if it happens you can press off button for 5 seconds.
The best thing about the phone is S-LCD2 (non-penlite display) that is better than over saturated pentile super AMOLED display.

Yea, HTC use to have bad service but now time has been changed, they open many service centers in couple of years. I visited last week for my friend's Desire phone. They have fine service.

I don't trust Homeshop18, they are fake. They sent a Xperia Neo V phone that is made in thailand to one of my friend. I don't know about sulekha sales.

Actually, for me, the best service is one that you never need... :lol:

As for HS18 - Whats wrong with Made in Thailand phone? Was it a sealed box? Did it come with SE India warranty? Please elaborate.

Zangetsu said:
@Richie Rich: u have done a lot of R&D on HTC & Sony

Hahaha.. you can say that! BTW I'm looking for a dual core phone in around 28-30k budget. I'm confused between SONY Xperia S and HTC One S.

aroraanant said:
Few days back I read on gsmarena, and it was not there and suddenly it shows there that it has....

No, man form the day it launched in India, gsmarena showing that it has FM + RDS. All specs in gsmarena are not correct like they didn't mention that this phone has S-LCD2 screen. In the bottom of every specs they mentioned Disclaimer. We can not guarantee that the information on this page is 100% correct.

Raccoon said:
Actually, for me, the best service is one that you never need...

As for HS18 - Whats wrong with Made in Thailand phone? Was it a sealed box? Did it come with SE India warranty? Please elaborate.

These all are electronic IT devices, and every device had to face some problem in its life. :-D

And BTW do you have any HTC phone?
That Neo V was made in thailand, having no TRAI hologram, don't know much about the problem faced by him, I will tell you later.

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It is neither ideal nor really a "replacement" for those phones. The phone is useless for navigation and the non removable battery kills the deal, at least for me.

why is One V useless for navigation?
3.7 inch display, 1 Ghz CPU, ICS at 15 to 16K- Its a good deal. It has still got the same hardware package as Neo V.

Richie Rich said:
As mentioned in gsmarena.com xperia sola has only 5 hours of 3G talktime & Xperia U has up to 5 h 36 min whereas One V has full 10 hours of 3G talk time.

Also those phone have Sony's LED-backlit LCD screen, with poor viewing angle.

S-LCD2 > SAMOLED > Sony LED-backlit LCD

Theri is no with no micro SD slot and who wants a phone now days with 8 GB (5 GB user available).

These new sony phones have no mass storage feature and their headset is only compatible with sony brand. Putting files from computer to phone is very very slow with their sony software.

I dunno where you read about file transfers being slow in MTP mode. Files transfers are blazing fast on 2012 Xperia devices.

I can transfer 1 GB file to my Xperia S in MTP mode in under 2 minutes.

And also from the reviews and owner feedback of the Sola, U and P battery life on these devices is quite good and in no way inferior to other devices in the same price point.

2 days of light-medium usage is achievable. But since everyone these days is a heavy users, under "normal" usage these phones can last you through the day (almost) just like any other Android smartphone.

why not get sola @17.5k

coolest111 said:
why not get sola @17.5k

Please elaborate on how we can get the Xperia Sola for 17.5k

adexmart + coupon code should lower price to 17.5k

try ngpay for it use coupon 'SHOP' wil give 10% off valid til 31st may hurry
My frnd got ipad 3 frm ngpay
I wil order my xperia p in a day or two....

Sam said:
adexmart + coupon code should lower price to 17.5k

what is the cupon code for adexmart.com?

coolest111 said:
try ngpay for it use coupon 'SHOP' wil give 10% off valid til 31st may hurry
My frnd got ipad 3 frm ngpay
I wil order my xperia p in a day or two....

Why you are buying Xperia P man, it has 1305mAH battery and 3G talk-timer is up to 5 hours ? Better choice is HTC sensation.

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Quote from The Verge review of Xperia P

"Coming into this review I was concerned about how the Xperia P's tiny 1305mAh battery would cope, but its SoC seems relatively good at sipping power. The Xperia P managed around 14 hours of use, including an hour and a half of camera work, watching a two-hour video, two hours of gaming, and over an hour of calls. In reality it’ll get you to the end of the day without any issues, and if you're not a heavy user you'll get a couple of days out of it."

its processor is very efficient

htc have all same almost lukin phones...so i hate it....

coolest111 said:
its processor is very efficient

htc have all same almost lukin phones...so i hate it....

HTC front shape is almost same in their phones but overall screen and back are different in every phone, same is applied by new sony X, P, U, sola series.
Keep in mind indian version of Xperia P is with old Adreno 205 GPU, (not Mali-400) that also comes in 16.5k Neo V.

IMO you should wait for HTC One S It is with SAMOLED screen, video playback upto 9 and half hours compare to only 4 hours of Xperia P. It is the most powerful phone till date in quadrant score beating even quad core HTC One X. (not included upcoming Galaxy S III)
I called hp india they said it is just going to be launched in a week price would be 27k as per HTC customer care.

randomuser111 said:
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Quote from The Verge review of Xperia P

"Coming into this review I was concerned about how the Xperia P's tiny 1305mAh battery would cope, but its SoC seems relatively good at sipping power. The Xperia P managed around 14 hours of use, including an hour and a half of camera work, watching a two-hour video, two hours of gaming, and over an hour of calls. In reality it’ll get you to the end of the day without any issues, and if you're not a heavy user you'll get a couple of days out of it."

Whatever, but It is not better than HTC One series in terms of battery life (check gsmarena battery endurance rating)

HTC One V Battery
HTC One S Battery
HTC One X Battery

where itz mention indian version dont have mali 400

from official sony india website download this and read specs on page no. 7

i don't have adexmart coupon but you can spend 5min googling and you'll have at least one working coupon.

And regardless of where you buy Xperia P, it'll have Mali 400 GPU but its clocked low. Thats the only way to makes it run at lower power. As processor too is power efficient, so it mayn't perform same way as other dual cores. But even if you get 90% performance but 25% more battery, this deal makes lot more sense.

Adreno is Qualcomm property. And they don't offer any kind license for it.

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coolest111 said:
where itz mention indian version dont have mali 400

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That's a mistake by Sony on the website. But it's general common sense really that only Qualcomm can use Adreno GPU. Xperia P all over the world has the U8500 Nova Thor chipset which comes with Mall 400 MP1 GPU.

Xperia U, Sola and P all have the Mali 400 MP1 GPU.

digit mentioned in its xperia u,sola,p post that sony is goin to end all its phones in september n come up wid a single device like apple so does that means no futher support to new xperias or any phone for that matter?

coolest111 said:
digit mentioned in its xperia u,sola,p post that sony is goin to end all its phones in september n come up wid a single device like apple so does that means no futher support to new xperias or any phone for that matter?

They may be sale these cheap phones with some different name tag. :-D

This also implies that HTC ONE series phones would have better future than Sony NXT series.

randomuser111 said:
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That's a mistake by Sony on the website. But it's general common sense really that only Qualcomm can use Adreno GPU. Xperia P all over the world has the U8500 Nova Thor chipset which comes with Mall 400 MP1 GPU.

Xperia U, Sola and P all have the Mali 400 MP1 GPU.

May be you are right, but sony india customer care is also saying it has Adreno 205. Maybe qualcomm and nova thor have some kinda deal for this phone, nothing can be common sense in the marketing world.

coolest111 said:
digit mentioned in its xperia u,sola,p post that sony is goin to end all its phones in september n come up wid a single device like apple so does that means no futher support to new xperias or any phone for that matter?

Mean no offense but did you read the article properly ?

Sony will be discontinuing "feature phones" by September which refers to Mix Walkman, Cedar, Zylo, Hazel, text pro handsets. Also the old Sony Ericsson handsets - Neo V, Arc S, Ray etc will also be discontinued by then.

The 2012 Xperia range will get great support just like the 2011 Xperia devices. Do not worry about future support.

And no Sony won't have just a single device like Apple. Dunno where you got that from, but that simply isn't true.

@RichieRich

Sorry but that is just a mistake and nothing more. Xperia P, U and Sola do NOT have Adreno 205 GPU. They have Mali 400 MP1 GPU. If you want I can ask someone with Xperia U,Sola, P to send a screenshot of the GPU description.

Would you believe if I told you that Audi A4 has Honda 1.5 litre 90 bhp engine ? No right ? Why ? Because not only will Audi never use a Honda Engine in its premium sedan but also because 1.5 litre engine simply isn't powerful enough for the A4.
The Xperia P is a dual core smartphone and the Adreno 205 is meant for single core handsets with the Snapdragon s2 range of chipsets.

EDIT: Just called up Sony Xperia support and asked them to rectify the error. Should be corrected soon

randomuser111 said:
Mean no offense but did you read the article properly ?
Sony will be discontinuing "feature phones" by September which refers to Mix Walkman, Cedar, Zylo, Hazel, text pro handsets. Also the old Sony Ericsson handsets - Neo V, Arc S, Ray etc will also be discontinued by then.

The 2012 Xperia range will get great support just like the 2011 Xperia devices. Do not worry about future support.

And no Sony won't have just a single device like Apple. Dunno where you got that from, but that simply isn't true.

@RichieRich

Sorry but that is just a mistake and nothing more. Xperia P, U and Sola do NOT have Adreno 205 GPU. They have Mali 400 MP1 GPU. If you want I can ask someone with Xperia U,Sola, P to send a screenshot of the GPU description.

Would you believe if I told you that Audi A4 has Honda 1.5 litre 90 bhp engine ? No right ? Why ? Because not only will Audi never use a Honda Engine in its premium sedan but also because 1.5 litre engine simply isn't powerful enough for the A4.
The Xperia P is a dual core smartphone and the Adreno 205 is meant for single core handsets with the Snapdragon s2 range of chipsets.

EDIT: Just called up Sony Xperia support and asked them to rectify the error. Should be corrected soon

Alright, alright.. it is definitely a typo. But if talk about performance of Mali-400 MP1.. how would you compare ? Is it as powerful as Samsung Galaxy SII Mali-400?

I got the benchmarks of Xperia P :
Antutu Score = 5338
Vellamore Score = 858
Quadrant = 2179

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Samsung GSII has Mali 400 MP4 which is the quad core variant of the same GPU, so the Xperia P, U and Sola won't have similar performance as the GSII.
In Nenamark GSII scores 38 fps with WVGA resolution, and Xperia P scores 30 fps with qHD resolution. So I guess depending on the app, Xperia P has about 75-80% of the GSII GPU performance.

i thot by 'feature phone' they means all phones my mistake

"The move certainly is an interesting one, with Apple and RIM the only two major global manufacturers to not have feature phones on the market (Apple's was 3rd place overall in 2011)"

was my premise to conclude they wil cum up with something like apple

pls post that pic to show xperia p hve mali 400 if u can just 2 b sure...

coolest111 said:
i thot by 'feature phone' they means all phones my mistake

"The move certainly is an interesting one, with Apple and RIM the only two major global manufacturers to not have feature phones on the market (Apple's was 3rd place overall in 2011)"

was my premise to conclude they wil cum up with something like apple

pls post that pic to show xperia p hve mali 400 if u can just 2 b sure...

Xperia P response is not coming quite good, not only because the battery is below average but also having death grip issue mentioned by cnet reviewer. :-o

CNET explained death grip issue

Oh please, not iCNET review. They are the most biased and crappy tech site ever.

And again these people at Cnet do nothing but search for whatever weakness they can find and mention it in their review as if they did encounter the issue themselves.

Much like the Iphone 4s vs Xperia S camera showdown which got them a lot of angry responses as they clearly made the Xperia s look bad.

Anyways just like I mentioned earlier in another thread, Xperia P has no deathgrip issues. Only if you block the transparent bar completely 360 degrees you might lose a bar or two but even then you won't lose signal completely

I am mentioning what I have read from actual buyers and people who have actually used the phone for quite some time and not some apple biased tech site that doesn't even know how to review a product.

But of course at the end of the day its up to you whom you wanna believe. Cnet or real users.

randomuser111 said:
Only if you block the transparent bar completely 360 degrees you might lose a bar or two but even then you won't lose signal completely

if you use Xperia P, your palm will cover the back side and you finger the front. So maybe it'll have some sort of deathgrip. Even though the signal strength may drop by 1-2 bar but in low network area, this will cause problem. though for most this shouldn't be an issue at all. at times even software fixes this problem upto a certain extent.

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Nope actual users have not experienced any such issues

. At worst, the signal drops by 1 bar. But then Xperia P has much better signal reception and call quality than most other Android devices, especially HTC One Series which have poor signal reception and signal drop problems

You can read what actual have to say about the "deathgrip" in the Xperia P thread under Xperia S general forum on XDA.

How is the LG P990 in comparison to the One V?

xcept the htc one v, the rest of the htc's are out of question coz they wont get ics...
check out sony xperia sola it is bang for the buck...only thing missing is secondary camera( if that is a dealbreaker)
otherwise get the sony ericsson xperia neo v...

rahulpv102 said:
xcept the htc one v, the rest of the htc's are out of question coz they wont get ics...
check out sony xperia sola it is bang for the buck...only thing missing is secondary camera( if that is a dealbreaker)
otherwise get the sony ericsson xperia neo v...

HTC one V, S, X all are with ICS and 4.0 HTC Sense

And HTC India confirmed that these models will get ICS update soon with HTC Sense 3.6 :

HTC Desire S – June-July
HTC Desire HD – July-August
HTC Evo 3D – June-July
HTC Evo 4G+ – May-June
HTC Evo Design 4G – June-July
HTC Incredible S – June-July
HTC Sensation – March-June
HTC Sensation 4G – March-June
HTC Sensation XE – March-June
HTC Sensation XL – April-June
HTC Rezound – June-July
HTC Rhyme – June-July
HTC Thunderbolt – July-August
HTC Velocity 4G – March-June
HTC Vivid – March-June

HTC One V has much better camera and screen quality than Neo V but no secondary camera. Xperia Sola lacks memory card slot.

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Xperia U lacks memory card slot, Xperia Sola has memory card slot

LOL and why would "HTC India" mention models that aren't even sold in India :-o

Except for Sensation, Desire S, Desire HD, Evo 3D, Sensation XE, Sensation XL all the other phones are US only handsets.

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Incredible S and Rhyme are also being sold in India bro

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Yup missed out those two there !

and for ur enlightenment ,xperia sola does have a memory card slot!!!

i dont prefer htc's because sense ,though beautiful comes with a lot of bloatware!!!

^^^
You don't prefer HTC because of sense and sense is one of the best thing by HTC...

I was wondering if the Sola is updated with the ICS,will it match up to the One V ?

Sola will get ICS update soon. What do you mean by matching up to One V?

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One v cant match the novathor dual core.

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i will suggest sony ericsson xperia sola its an osum phone.

surprising that no ones suggesting xperia sola...
about the small battery there arent any complaints arnd...
the novathor chip inside is very power efficient...

only drawback maybe the absence of a secondary camera...

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rahulpv102 said:
surprising that no ones suggesting xperia sola...
about the small battery there arent any complaints arnd...
the novathor chip inside is very power efficient...

only drawback maybe the absence of a secondary camera...

No man there are a lot....and i mean a LOT of complaints about the Sola.I was very keen on it too but after reading the complaints on GSM Arena in comments, I was totally put off. Do a google search for "Xperia Sola Problems" and you'll be hit by a blast of customers complaining about dead screens,Camera Buttons failing,Wifi dropouts,crappy battery lives,earphone jack problems. Too much of a risk purchasing a device with so many issues.
Agreed every new device has a few niggles but this many is too much.

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D3LeT3 said:
No man there are a lot....and i mean a LOT of complaints about the Sola.I was very keen on it too but after reading the complaints on GSM Arena in comments, I was totally put off. Do a google search for "Xperia Sola Problems" and you'll be hit by a blast of customers complaining about dead screens,Camera Buttons failing,Wifi dropouts,crappy battery lives,earphone jack problems. Too much of a risk purchasing a device with so many issues.
Agreed every new device has a few niggles but this many is too much.

Now just search HTC One V and you will almost the same number of problem with it too ...

and even Galaxy S2 had a vast numbers of problems when it came

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Every device has problems. Even One X has hell of a lot of issues

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randomuser111 said:
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Every device has problems. Even One X has hell of a lot of issues .

True but the difference is the S2 and One X are flagship phones, so you could probably expect them to be treated preferentially in terms of customer satisfaction. Then again there's no official word on better quality control for the Sola, like was announced for the Xperia S handsets which showed yellow tinge problem or the international One S which had chipping issue on the MAO Black phones. I was totally gunning to buy the Sola. NFC plus Dual core plus an awesome screen in 19k!! But somehow I didnt end up picking it up after reading these issues. Just my personal opinion.I feel the notification led just under the screen (not the transparent strip like in the P,S and U)and above the capacitive keys is not getting a fair share of attention.
I just hope Sony works out all the kinks cause the Sola is a beautiful handset with a beautiful set of features.

I have searched high and low..
I think the LG optimus 2x is the one for me.
One concern is the battery.
Will the 1500mAh battery last a day moderate phone call,moderate texting,0.5 to 1 hour of gameplay,occasional movies and listening to music for quite some time and minimal web browsing?I charge every night when sleeping...
If the phone is rooted and updated with the ICS,will performance and battery life significantly increase?
I saw on the internet there is a 3500mAh battery for the Optimus 2x,but I dont knwo whether LG sells it in its authorised stores?Where can I get such a battery?
Other than that,there were some software bugs and lags,freezes when it was released,were those fixed by LG in the newly manufactured phones?
Are there any noticeable and considerable gltiches or problems which I need to knw that are still present on the LG Optimus 2x?