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12K-18K: The Over Budget Phones
Frazier Barretto, Dec 22, 2006 1313 hrs ISTThis is the third installment of the Mobile Buying Guides. Today, we will continue where we left and push the budget all the way to 18K.
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This is the third installment of the Mobile Buying Guides. Today, we will continue where we left and push the budget all the way to 18K. The phones here are not only feature-rich but could also be ones like KRZR, which is an all out style phone. Let's move on with the list of phones we suggest you to look at if you have a similar kind of budget for buying a phone.
The phones mentioned below are all equipped with standard features such as GPRS, Bluetooth, pop-port/USB, and a 256K TFT screen. That said and done there will be no more repetitions of the same further. I would like to bring it to your notice that we won't be listing PDAs in these guides instead a separate guide to PDAs will be done later in 2007.
Nokia
Nokia always seems to have a good list of phones and the same applies to this price range. Here the phones cater to different people with different lifestyles. Nokia is really trying hard to keep up in this market as well with other phone manufacturers making it a difficult choice for the end users.
Nokia 3250 (Rs. 14,500)
The Nokia 3250 is the first music phone from Nokia. The phone, though it looks like the 3230, has a very different design and weighs a lot more at 130 grams. The design is questionable, because any movable part always calls for problems sooner or later. The phone otherwise has a 2 MP camera and comes bundled with 512 MB microSD card. It has 10 MB of internal memory and runs on Symbian OS v9.1. The phone even has EDGE for browsing. Being a music phone, it has an MP3 player and an FM tuner as well. The phone comes bundled with 3.5 mm jack headphones to attach your own choice of headphones. The phone has a short battery life of just about 2 hours of talktime and 2-3 days of standby time.
Nokia 5500 (Rs. 13,000)
The Nokia 5500 is a sports phone. The ads on the TV will surely help you depict the kind of activity one can perform while using the phone at the same time. The rubber body and the dust covers keep the phone in perfect condition in the most rugged situations. The phone comes bundled with a lot of accessories to fit in the sports phone category. The phone features softwares like Sports Tracking (stopwatch, steps calculator, and calories burned.) This phone runs on a very stable Symbian OS v9.1 OS. It has 64 MB of total internal memory out of which 10 MB is for user data and the remaining is allotted to the OS. The phone has a microSD card slot to expand memory, which is placed under the battery cover for protection. The phone is equipped with EGDE connectivity and Bluetooth 2.0, Infra-red, and pop-port USB v2.0 for quick transfers. The phone has a 2 MP camera and is equipped with a flashlight as well. The phone has music capabilities like audio player and FM tuner as well. The battery life of the phone is about average providing about 3 hours of talktime and 2-3 days of standby time.
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