mekturk

Kyocera Rise - Would be around $80 in US for new - any of RIMWeb trusted sellers would be able to get you one imported and activated within your budget. I've been importing 4-5 used Kyocera Rise's for use in some project as a dumb wifi device with QWERTY keyboard. Very good device with solid build quality (Little heavy and thick). I can get you one too, but I would also go through one of the sellers here for activation - so better you get in touch with them.

Why Samsung doesn't sell this in India and sell only junk low end dual-sim / CDMA phones like Galaxy Pop CDMA, etc! May be like rimweb community does often for giving petitions for Reliance, we should petition Samsung India also to bring the android CDMA models available elsewhere to India (At least the OMH compatible ones would be easier logistically).

When is this effective from? SnS sent mail saying it's effective from 1st March 2013. But I'm sure they're not going to implement it so soon.