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GSM 3G/CDMA EVDO Phones Below Rs 10,000 GSM 3G is here and CDMA EVDO was already in place. Next thing you want is an affordable 3G/EVDO Phone. I feel not everyone is looking for buying those 20-25K phones, neither can most people afford it. So thought of compiling this list. For this roundup, my criteria was following, -Price Below Rs 10,000 -Real 3G Phone. GSM Phones advertising 3G but having 384kbps speed is excluded. -For CDMA, 1x speed phones are excluded. -Also imported CDMA phones excluded as Official EVDO on them still not possible. (I know some members using but still it's not available for public at large easily, Also won't fit into Rs 10,000) With this criteria, my search yielded following choices for 3G/EVDO Phones below Rs 10,000. All Prices are Online. Happy And Economical Buying....Enjoy.... Please post phones missed out fulfilling the above criteria and i will update. Thanks. CDMA PHONES Micromax E360 Rs 3,999 Micromax EG333 Rs 7,,999 -EVDO Rev.A V3 Pearl Rs 3,999 - EVDO Rev.A Samsung mPower TV S239 Rs 3,999 -EVDO Rev.0 Samsung Metro M519 Rs 5,649 -EVDO Rev.0 Samsung Ch@t M369 Rs 5,895 -EVDO Rev.0 Samsung mPowerTxt M369 Rs 5,989 -EVDO Rev.0 Samsung Corby TV F339 Rs 7,249 -EVDO Rev.0 Samsung Galaxy Pop Rs 8,950 - EVDO Rev.A Android 2.2 Huawei C7300 Rs 5,499 -EVDO Rev.A LG Cookie Spark 235 Rs 5,900 -EVDO Rev.0 LG Cookie Zip LG510 Rs 6,399 -EVDO Rev.A GSM PHONES Micromax H360 Rs 3,900 Micromax Modu T Rs 7,999 Micromax Andro A60 Rs 5,666 -Android 2.1 Micromax Bling 2 Rs 7,999 Android 2.2 Motorola Charm MB502 Rs 8,999 Android Motorola Flipout Rs 8,999 Motorola Quench XT3 Rs 9,999 Android 2.1 Samsung Hero E3210 Rs 3,190 Samsung Shark S5350(Metro 3G) Rs 4,740 Samsung Star Duos B7722 Rs 9,250 Samsung Monte S5620 Rs 6,790 Samsung Wave 575 S5753 Rs 6,999 Samsung Wave 723 Rs 9,299 Samsung Omnia 652 B6520 Rs 7,999 -Windows Mobile Standard 6.5 Samsung Galaxy5 I5503 Rs 7,990 -Android 2.1 Samsung Galaxy 551 I5510 Rs 9,399 Android 2.2 Samsung Galaxy Fit S 5670 Rs 9,500 Android 2.2 Samsung CorbyPRO B5310 Rs 6,999 Samsung Galaxy Pop S5570 Rs 7,650-Android 2.2 Sony Ericsson Cedar Rs 4,122 Sony Ericsson Naite J105i Rs 5,949 Sony Ericsson JALOU F100i Rs 6,299 Sony Ericsson Zylo Rs 5,567 Sony Ericsson T715 Rs 7,168 Sony Ericsson Elm Rs 6,599 Sony Ericsson W595 Rs 9,259 Sony Ericcson Hazel Rs 7,899 Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 mini Rs 8,499-Android 2.1 LG Cookie Plus GS500v Rs 5,999 LG T325 Rs Rs 5,524 LG GW525 Rs 6,490 LG Cookie Flip GD580 Rs 7,199 LG New Chocolate BL20V Rs 7,299 LG Optimus ME P350 Rs 7,500 - Android 2.2 LG Optimus One P500 Rs 8,999 - Android 2.2 LG Optimus GT540 Rs 9,999 -Android 2.1 Nokia 5230 Rs 6,899 -Symbian S60-5th Edition Nokia X3-02 Rs 7,724 Nokia 5235 Rs 7,799 -Symbian OS version 9.4 Nokia C5 Rs 7,249 -Symbian OS version 9.3 Nokia C3-01 Rs 8,205 Nokia X5-01 Rs 9,167 Nokia E5 Rs 9,142 Nokia C5-03 Rs 9,699 Nokia E52 Rs 9,976 Olive Fluid V-W1 Rs 6,649 Android 2.1 Spice Mi-310 Rs 7,299-Android 2.2 Spice MI-300 Rs 9,500-Android 2.1 Spice G-6565 Rs 9,700 HTC Smart F3188 Rs 6,999-BREW Videocon V7400 Rs 8,990-Android 2.1 Dell XCD28 Rs 5,999-Android 2.1 Dell XCD35 Rs 9,549 Huawei Ideos Rs 7,500-Android 2.2 Special Mention: HTC Wildfire Rs 10,499 Androd 2.2

"If Wishes Were Horses, Beggars Would Ride". Heard the proverb in kindergarten days. Refers to something which is impossible or day dreaming. Even today the Mobile Consumer in India is sort of a beggar for many just or necessary wishes. On the last day of the year 2010, Here is my Wish List For the Telecom Sector in 2011. Fellow Beggars…errrr….Fellow RIMweb members do contribute your wishes….. Indian Mobile User's Association The total mobile subscriber base as on 31st October 2010 is 706.69 Million. Assuming that even 50% of this number belong to non active or multiple connections, we have 353.34 Million Mobile users in the country, that's about 35 Crore Customers. AND We Have No Unified, Large Voice At all to represent our interests to Government, Regulatory Authorities or Telecom Operators. In India we have interest groups, associations, unions for every imaginable thing who protect their interests with unified representation but most of the time with coercion. Few Examples, -Some 50,000 Taxiwallas and 1,00,000 Rickshaw Owners keeps a city like Mumbai with 1.5 Crore population to ransom everytime they want a fare hike and gets it easily. -A few hundred ATC (Air Traffic Controllers) can halt entire Aviation Sector in India and get their demands met. -About a million or so Transport Operators gets their demands met (However unjustified) every time by halting their wheels for a few days. Imagine how powerful Indian Mobile User's Association can be with a strength of 35 Crore Members. And funding this can be pretty easy. For a Start if every mobile subscriber gives just Rs 20 as Lifetime Membership, Rs 700 Crore can be raised. With that type of money, this association can have countrywide offices, hire the best talent, can have their own call centers and many things more. For further funding and to meet year to year expenses, All fines levied to Telecom Operators can go to this body like all fines levied in Stock Markets goes to Investor Education Fund. Some of the innovative activities this body can do for members is, -Mobile Strikes-An operator not listening…Boycott them for a day or more and cause some serious revenue damage. -Gandhigiri Type Satyagrah-All avenues exhausted and still the operator not listening. Well All members of this body will simply stop paying their bills to the particular operator. Let them initiate crores of recovery suits….They will come to their senses sooner than you think. -Mandatory representation of this body in all telecom policy formulation and management. Think more and you will realize what can be done with unity and strength… Pesky Call/SMS Punishment For years we are suffering the agony but it took TRAI one pesky call received by Mr. Pranav Mukherjee while in a meeting to get all charged up and come up with the new Pesky Call/SMS regulations. Now from 1st January implementation, it is rolled back to February. Still even after will it be effective with all the enhanced fines, registration procedures and what not… I have a simple suggestion for ending this menace… -Whenever a Customer will receive a pesky call, he can just press a pre-defined 3 number combination on any handset and then the same call will be simultaneously routed to Prime Minister, Entire Council of Ministers, All MP's & MLA's and Leaders of all Political Parties. The system will be such that all of them will have to listen to the call in full and cannot cut it off. No other function will be possible on the phone till the call is completed. -Similarly for pesky SMS, again a pre-defined 3 number combination and it gets delivered to all the above. Again they will have to read it fully and only then the handset is available for any other function. TRAI don't try for lengthy regulation. Try the above. It will work wonders in ending this menace once and for all… Web Based Mobile Account Management-Pre Paid Included All Mobile Operators have varying degrees of Web Based Customer Account Management available but mostly for Post Paid. The irony here is that in India out of the total mobile customer base, nearly 90% is pre-paid. Even for Postpaid Customers, Web Based Account Management is not comprehensive. The Operator's excuse for not providing this services to Pre-paid customers is inability to manage such a large database on the web which is actually a lot of bull***. If all the following services are available to User Online for himself to manage, a lot of our pains and grouse can be avoided, -Switching to a different plan. -Activating and de-activating VAS services. -Managing Caller Tunes. -Activating and de-activating add on packs for Calls, SMS. -Recharge, Balance Management, Usage History. Mobile Coverage Check Tool Mandatory on Telecom Operators Websites It's a tough job deciding a network operator for coverage. For the same operator, one city may have excellent coverage and another very poor. This changes even within city areawise. As of today, the mobile consumer has no way to check what quality coverage he can expect within the areas most used by him other than word of mouth which can be really off the mark most of the time. As all operators network is basically managed by computers and data centers, why not to have a tool on each operators website which can graphically display the following information, -BTS Numbers and Location in a Particular Area. -Signal Strength, Congestion, Call Initiation, Completion, Call Drop rates in a particular area. With this the consumer will be able to choose the best network in the respective area. VOIP made legal for use within India We all make those dirt cheap VOIP calls abroad to Mobiles and Landlines. Why not make them legal for Calling within India to all mobiles and landlines. This one move can be the real game changer as far as tariffs go and will keep all telcos on their toes. Till now they have succeeded by lobbying against this but this is the change which is needed. Optical Fiber Data pipes, broadband connectivity and all infrastructure is already there. Just a policy move is needed. Reliance Infotel LTE Rollout Reliance Infotel's LTE High Speed Wireless Broadband Rollout this year should change the broadband sector in India quite dramatically. Hope is for a nationwide rollout with Economical Data Packages and Choice between various devices. But the biggest anticipation is that Mukesh Ambani will roll out this with Voice Capability also. Lets hope this wish comes out true. Economical 3G Hi-Speed Data Yes, Yes we all know you brainless 3G auction winners that you blew up thousands of crores in 3G Spectrum and now think that it was too costly perhaps. So you want to extract the same from 3G Customers. Reminds me of a drunken, gambler husband who will always blew up everything and will return to the helpless wife demanding more dowry. Usually the Pati Parmeshvar type Wife will toil hard and meet all the demands for years living in suffering and pain. But today's India is different. The other half is liberated, courageous and will not tolerate nonsense. The only way for Telcos to wriggle out from this is to have sensible 3G data tariffs so that there is widespread adoption which in turn generates the much needed revenue for them. Telcos should understand that the Consumer wants Economical Data Tariff which may not necessarily be cheap. There is a difference between the two. OMH Handsets Mandatory For CDMA When you buy a Car, is it legal for your manufacturer to demand that you can fill up the petrol from only Hindustan Petroleum OR can use only Apollo Tyres? Then why allow CDMA Operators to have network locked handsets particularly now when OMH Handset Technology is available. Make a law or regulation making it mandatory that any new CDMA handset launched henceforth has to be OMH handset so the consumer can freely use it on any CDMA network. Nationwide MNP Including Outside Circles We are still keeping the finger crossed whether the damn thing will happen or not on 20th January for the entire country. But even if it happens, it will be limited to switching within the same circle. Though assurances are given that Intra Circle switchover is the ultimate aim, this has to happen very soon. Technology is already there and this will be real freedom for the consumer. Right To Information Act Coverage of Even Pvt. Sector Telecom Cos. This one Act has really made a difference for helpless entity called aam aadmi in India. Most powerful and mighty have come down to earth with intelligent use of this powerful tool. But it is not applicable to Private Sector Companies. With Telecom such a vital sector having Crores of subscribers, isn't it in real Public Interest to extend Right to Information Act Coverage to All Telecom Companies. BSNL-MTNL Merger, Listing on Stock Exchange and Freedom From Babudom We have been hearing this since years and long overdue. The BSNL-MTNL merger and one entity nationwide can give some serious competition to Private Telcos and relief to millions of Customers who want BSNL Services but can't get it simply because they are in Mumbai and New Delhi which are incidently two cities with the largest mobile customers. BSNL disinvestment plans are also heard since ages but nothing done. Even with a 20% disinvestment (New Equity), BSNL can get critical fund infusion for exapansion and network enhancement. And Freedom from Babudom concerns BSNL/MTNL's equipment purchases. Everyone knows how this one simple factor delaying equipment purchases keeps BSNL/MTNL behind the Pvt. Telcos and dents its competitive advantage. "Agni Pariksha" For Spectrum Scamsters We have heard story in Ramayan when Bhagvan RAM subjected SITA Maiya for Agni-Pariksha before accepting her back. SITA Maiya walked the fire and came out without any hurt. While this was thousands of years back and in today's world, the idea of justice and punishment has changed… Still going by the chaos in the spectrum scam of a JPC, PAC, CBI, Supreme Court, Enquiry Commission…..endless delays….The Culprits are never going to be punished for years. Why not have "Agni Pariksha" for all Spectrum Scamsters? None of them will pass and burn out. Good riddance and swift justice.

3G isn't only about browsing internet on your mobile and/or PC. Services like video calls (using which you can see each other and talk), mobile TV (where you can watch TV programs including Live programming) etc. will work over 3G data. The scope of these services will vary depending upon the applications available as anything is possible. Yes, you need a high end smart phone to utilize them. Voice calls won't have much difference in clarity but there could be lesser congestion as more spectrum is available for the operator.

dear friends wishing all a very a happy new year 2011.. my resolution : will try to quit fagging, which sometimes overrules