I was looking to buy a sub Rs 10,000 mobile, there were many choices presently in Indian market, with strings attached of course.
Requirements:
1) 5" screen or higher
2) main use media consumption and some small games nothing fancy.
3) should be able to root.
4) SD card support of 64gb card
Sub 10 K choices:
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1) Redmi Note 3G/4G
2) Yu Yureka
3) ZTE Grand S2 (Sub 10K for 3 days only 24-26th Jan 2015)
1) Redmi Note
- Cumbersome purchase process
- Snapdragon 400 for 4G is not exactly high performance,
- MTK Chipset was banned for sale in India
+ Excellent Screen Quality
+ High Capacity Battery
+ Availability of accesories
+ Excellent built quality
+ good enough camera
2) Yu Yureka
- After 2 frustrating week of trying to purchase from amazon, I gave up. process is absolutely frustrating and not smooth like flipkart flash sale.
- 64 bit chipset. Android at 64 bit is relatively new and full of bugs, it will iron out in time, but waiting for cyanogen mod to release fixes, makes the experience of this phone pretty bad. (src Amazon customer reviews of Yu Yureka handset)
- I am not sure if 2GB ram is enough of 64 bit , for windows thumb rule is 2gb windows 32, 4gb windows 64 bit considering that its phone OS but still if memory allocations are 64 bit instead of 32 bit won't it use up most of 2GB RAM ? I am yet to use a 64 bit phone so I wish to see its idle memory usage first before plunging into 64 bit/2GB platform.
-none of my friends got this after trying it for 4 weeks now(05, feb2015). This shows how screwed up wastage of time trying to purchase this phone is.
+ high specs on paper
+ CyanogenMod
3) ZTE Grand S2
-not exactly under 10K ( was for 3 days only for republic day sale 3,000 lightening deal discount and 10% discount from HDFC Card) I got this on 24th Jan 2015 for Rs-9,900
-Jellybean 4.2 (no chance of upgrade ever-since this phone is different from that of Chinese market S291 Indian version is S251) so I am not hopeful about development of OS from modaco.com or xdadevlopers.com
- no accessory available (no cases and no screen-guards) whatever is available is for S291 and not for S251
+ GSM, CDMA, UMTS, 3G (dual band - 2.4/5 GHz wifi)
+ Excellent built quality (premium aluminum finish)
+ snapdragon 800 / 2GB /16MB/expandable SD-Card
+ very light phone
+ ZTE UI (some cool shortcuts)
+ NO Fussy sale process, just login to amazon and buy, No invites and no flash sales = frustration free buying experience
will be updating on my experience with ZTE Grand S2 (S251) later on. but this phone at Rs 9900/- is really a very good deal. perhaps this deal will come later on at valentine's day or holi , If anybody is intrested in buying can check amazon for this phone..
Link Amazon.in(ZTE Grand S2 (S251)
Images
Requirements:
1) 5" screen or higher
2) main use media consumption and some small games nothing fancy.
3) should be able to root.
4) SD card support of 64gb card
Sub 10 K choices:
=============
1) Redmi Note 3G/4G
2) Yu Yureka
3) ZTE Grand S2 (Sub 10K for 3 days only 24-26th Jan 2015)
1) Redmi Note
- Cumbersome purchase process
- Snapdragon 400 for 4G is not exactly high performance,
- MTK Chipset was banned for sale in India
+ Excellent Screen Quality
+ High Capacity Battery
+ Availability of accesories
+ Excellent built quality
+ good enough camera
2) Yu Yureka
- After 2 frustrating week of trying to purchase from amazon, I gave up. process is absolutely frustrating and not smooth like flipkart flash sale.
- 64 bit chipset. Android at 64 bit is relatively new and full of bugs, it will iron out in time, but waiting for cyanogen mod to release fixes, makes the experience of this phone pretty bad. (src Amazon customer reviews of Yu Yureka handset)
- I am not sure if 2GB ram is enough of 64 bit , for windows thumb rule is 2gb windows 32, 4gb windows 64 bit considering that its phone OS but still if memory allocations are 64 bit instead of 32 bit won't it use up most of 2GB RAM ? I am yet to use a 64 bit phone so I wish to see its idle memory usage first before plunging into 64 bit/2GB platform.
-none of my friends got this after trying it for 4 weeks now(05, feb2015). This shows how screwed up wastage of time trying to purchase this phone is.
+ high specs on paper
+ CyanogenMod
3) ZTE Grand S2
-not exactly under 10K ( was for 3 days only for republic day sale 3,000 lightening deal discount and 10% discount from HDFC Card) I got this on 24th Jan 2015 for Rs-9,900
-Jellybean 4.2 (no chance of upgrade ever-since this phone is different from that of Chinese market S291 Indian version is S251) so I am not hopeful about development of OS from modaco.com or xdadevlopers.com
- no accessory available (no cases and no screen-guards) whatever is available is for S291 and not for S251
+ GSM, CDMA, UMTS, 3G (dual band - 2.4/5 GHz wifi)
+ Excellent built quality (premium aluminum finish)
+ snapdragon 800 / 2GB /16MB/expandable SD-Card
+ very light phone
+ ZTE UI (some cool shortcuts)
+ NO Fussy sale process, just login to amazon and buy, No invites and no flash sales = frustration free buying experience
will be updating on my experience with ZTE Grand S2 (S251) later on. but this phone at Rs 9900/- is really a very good deal. perhaps this deal will come later on at valentine's day or holi , If anybody is intrested in buying can check amazon for this phone..
Link Amazon.in(ZTE Grand S2 (S251)
Images
can u take a backup of your stock recovery and send its .img file to me please. my phone is dead. ZTE grand s2 indian version.
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