Which touchscreen phone to buy under Rs 10k in next 3 months ?

After my sister admission i will be getting about 10k in hand .I want to buy a Smart phone ( not Business but entertainment purpose ) under say next 3 months . My friends are saying LG Cookie and i am also fond of touchscreen . What should i do ? Will there be any new launches in next 3 months in touchscreen sector ? Is Brand selection necessery . I personally hate Sony for it's brittleness ,so please don't advise me to buy of that brand. About 11 to 12 k can also work as the price will come down or can be bargained for 10 k or under in coming months.

Brittleness??
Anyways, Samsung has the Star serie phones that are pretty effective. You can try them.

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ayushman9 said:
After my sister admission i will be getting about 10k in hand .I want to buy a Smart phone ( not Business but entertainment purpose ) under say next 3 months . My friends are saying LG Cookie and i am also fond of touchscreen . What should i do ? Will there be any new launches in next 3 months in touchscreen sector ? Is Brand selection necessery . I personally hate Sony for it's brittleness ,so please don't advise me to buy of that brand. About 11 to 12 k can also work as the price will come down or can be bargained for 10 k or under in coming months.

LG cookie is NOT a smartphone.
I think the only smartphone available in that range are htc touch and some windows mobile phone. Pathetic for entertainment purpose.

^^ pathetic for wm phone even

remember if you ever buy a wm phone make sure it's ram is around 128mb and proccy atleast 400MHZ.

Better get LG cookie Or Samsung star !!!

I suppose u wait for another 2 months for new launches...or htc TOUCH VIVA is something u can consider.

Samsung star is good but not a smartphone...nor cookie...

Don't take any decision now...who knows maybe the campany may stop those models you think now!! Create similar kind of thread after 3 months..

Sorry buddy, but having a good touchscreen smartphone for ~10k is difficult for now.

I had my HTC Gene (Windows Mobile) for around that price. And it has been serving me quite well, but you may not be me.
Nevertheless WiMo opens up a lot of opprtunities and there are some really good apps. Plus, WiMo is great for managing your digital life.
But this low-end-model might not be really impressive in entertainment department though.

If you want to have a phone complying to today's norms, either drop the 'smartphone' or drop the 'touchscreen' part. HTC Gene, Touch aint that bad, try'em out.

K

touchscreen dumbfones (ok , non smartfones)
- lg cookie ( shud be 11k approx)
- samsung star (definately 10k in 3 months)
- samsung start 3g (doubtful to come down to 10k)

touchscreen smartfones
- p3400 (wimo , really old ... tis 9k right now)
maybe some more htc fones ... all wimo ... not worth

non touch smartfones
- nokia 5320 ( its 9.9k now)
-samsung i450
- nokia 5630 (if u are lucky ... but it unlikely .. it'll still cost 12k atleast after 3mnths)

SORRY sorry sorry

I will never demand a smartphone in that touch segment . I already own Sony K550i & Nokia 7610 & they are serving me well considering Games & apps so leave samrtphone . What actually is problem is that my thumb hurts when i use this mobiles extensively & i can't even use them for normal purposes like calling etc or writing sms that's why i required a touchscreen . My new but decreased requirement for a touchphone are

Decent sound for occasional music intrest

If possible fullscreen video out ,any format works for me only for occasional viewing

If possible it should have flash with the camera ,though i tend to click only in daylight

if & if only possible can it have good music and filemanagemnt such that the songs can be browsed through album art

Can some of the avaliable models summarise these features ?

My friend bought LG Cookie few days back for 9.7k

Though it does have auto rotating screen and shake but somehow did not look appealing to me. Volume is great so is the screen. But it catches finger prints and you'll be left wiping it to keep it as good looking as it looks on websites.

I would not have bought it having used Motorokr E6 previously.

saurabhpatel said:
My friend bought LG Cookie few days back for 9.7k

Though it does have auto rotating screen and shake but somehow did not look appealing to me. Volume is great so is the screen. But it catches finger prints and you'll be left wiping it to keep it as good looking as it looks on websites.

I would not have bought it having used Motorokr E6 previously.

what if i laminate it wil performance degrade it is better than a hurt thumb though

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ayushman9 said:
SORRY sorry sorry

I will never demand a smartphone in that touch segment . I already own Sony K550i & Nokia 7610 & they are serving me well considering Games & apps so leave samrtphone . What actually is problem is that my thumb hurts when i use this mobiles extensively & i can't even use them for normal purposes like calling etc or writing sms that's why i required a touchscreen . My new but decreased requirement for a touchphone are

Decent sound for occasional music intrest

If possible fullscreen video out ,any format works for me only for occasional viewing

If possible it should have flash with the camera ,though i tend to click only in daylight

if & if only possible can it have good music and filemanagemnt such that the songs can be browsed through album art

Can some of the avaliable models summarise these features ?

Just for your info , original 7610 (not supernova) is a smartphone.

Btw , using touchscreen is more pain than normal phones. Eerything requires more movement of fingers in every work , so if you get your thumb soared easily , think again before jumping touchscreen .

^^

Btw , using touchscreen is more pain than normal phones. Eerything requires more movement of fingers in every work , so if you get your thumb soared easily , think again before jumping touchscreen .

Depends. When I am in my room, sitting on my bed and using my Windows Mobile phone, I can get a lot more work done than I could have ever done without a touchscreen.

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IronManForever said:
^^

Depends. When I am in my room, sitting on my bed and using my Windows Mobile phone, I can get a lot more work done than I could have ever done without a touchscreen.

I'm not talking about what can be done or not , i'm talking about the 'effort' needed to use touchscreen phone . For example , when using opera mini on 5800 , to scroll a page i have to drag my finger form bottom to top of the screen , now imagine reading some long forum and think about how many times finger needs to be dragged. In a normal phone , you just need to press 8 .

There are few advantages in touchscreen , but comfort is not among them.

Tamoghno said:
Just for your info , original 7610 (not supernova) is a smartphone.

I own the orginal only ,its only negative point is it only accept upto s60 v2 software only

coming to touchphone , actually i had read in a health magazine that it is better to shift to touchphone for better comfort . From above discussion ,i think the information is turning as a hoax

between samsung star & LG cookie which is good & why ?

K

lg cookie ... better interface ... only problem is that u cant get more widgets than the preinstalled ones

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ayushman9 said:
between samsung star & LG cookie which is good & why ?

Samsung star. Better battery , better music ,slightly better camera , better looks , better music quality , slightly faster edge . But most important and big enough reason , its not lg .

Cookie has better interface though.

^^ lol really ? i found cookie to be great

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krates said:
^^ lol really ? i found cookie to be great

Cookie was great until star came.

I personally had very bad experience with lg phones . So my neurons refuses to transmit anything that says 'lg' and 'great' in same sentence . So dont argue with me , it'll get personal. ;-)

Save money in the next 3 months and get Nokia 5800XM.

ayushman9 said:
what if i laminate it wil performance degrade it is better than a hurt thumb though

My friend got two Scratch guards free with the phone.

ico said:
Save money in the next 3 months and get Nokia 5800XM.

I am an unemployed Indian Engineering student ,you are saying to save money when actually the money itself has been promised to me after 3 months :))

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okk soo dont be in a hurry...as i said previously wait for 2 months...then decide in the 3rd month...

N

You have only one choice: Asus P320

T

Yeah , just wait and see. A hell lot of phone is coming in next few month.

nikeel said:
You have only one choice: Asus P320

If you are looking for good music and ok touchscreen then u should consider this as an option

. The device is laggy and the amount of ram is less. I sold the phone in 17 days :evil:

N

^^ True. Asus P320 is laggy. But there is no other touchscreen smartphone available less than 10k. Only other phone is the HTC P3400. But its even worse than the P320

Go for HTC P3400i

I think i will settlw with LG Cookie or samsung star ,it is better than a dull looking wimo interface ( no offense to other wimo users )

T

Winmo is not bad . Atleast when you couple with a 35k hardware it becomes almost usable.

Btw , there are similar threads running in te. People are giving good reviews about samsung . Seems like battery life is quite good.

K

just saw the samsung star a few days ago ... fren got one for 8.5k ... great price ... love the widgets .... wish s60 had something like that ...

yup me too very impressed by samsungs initiatives...its getting better and better...

S60 should be renovated....its sort of similar for quit a time...at least its icons

Tamoghno said:
Samsung star. Better battery , better music ,slightly better camera , better looks , better music quality , slightly faster edge . But most important and big enough reason , its not lg .

Cookie has better interface though.

Stop Stereotyping. At the high-end, LG touch screens outclass Samsung. LG , Samsung are two almost identical twin Korean companies, which identical product lineup, but LG usually, aims at the masses and Samsung at classy and style obsessed.
But the LG cookie is better than Star (Check out the reviews online). Cookie's got better interface, better battery, good sound, and better touch sensitivity.

If you like, go for HTC P3400i, come to XDA Forum, use one of my ROMS and you will be more than happy with the device.

1. Music quality, at least in headphones, with AudioBooster on is quiet good. Trebles are a bit less clear but bass is quiet tub-thumping

My personal opinion though.

2. Camera, average: takes nice pics in daylight, pathetic at night, though night mode works sometimes.

3. Video : 240x320 xvid or divx coded movies works fine using TCPMP. But nothing to boast about as the processor is a bit slow.

4. File Management, Album Art Searching etc etc : No worries, Slide2Play or Audio Manager will definitely catch your fancy, i am sure.

5. Battery Performance : Average to Good, on Windows Mobile 6.1 ROMs you will get around 2.5 days, on 6.5 ROMs you'll get 3 days or more. I am assuming 1.5-2 hours of calling and 1 hour of music listening and touch screen fondling in it

All in all, P3400i is a great phone if you are ready to give up the traditional way of using phones and accept that its not a phone, its a PDA. Windows Mobile Standard devices like the HTC Vox will give you more of a traditional phone like experience.

Plus, with the default OS that comes with the device, you wont be able to do much. It is pathetically under optimized to work on its hardware and thats why people get a bad impression from it.

Flashing a custom made ROM like mine will void your warranty although in 99% cases that i have seen, HTC service center guys are aware of these things and they don't even ask a single question to get the device serviced if something goes wrong with it.

You will have to study some information first in order to perform an upgrade, i have written a step by step guide for that on XDA Forums, so that wont be tough.

If you make decision to buy an P3400i, you are welcome on the Gene section of XDA to make it better, thats all i can say

@Krazy_About_Technology
looks impressive thing to do .. and can you post a few screenshots from the new ROM

@Krazzy about tecnology....I would love to do all this as soon as i get my hands on any windows mobile :razz:

Well, Thanks guys, you are always welcome. the pics are in the Gene>Gene Upgrading etc.... Section in the thread of each ROM so you can go there and see. You dont even need to register for that. My username is same there also.