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Hi,
I am looking for economic mobile phones in India(Pune) with following features --
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NO - camera
NO - mp3/video player
Dual/Triband atleast
MMS support - doesn't matter
FM - Not required, but doesn't matter
YES - phone's ability to be used as modem to browse internet from PC
YES - EDGE, atleast class 6
YES - GPRS, atleast class 8
WAP & on phone browser - doesn't matter, if it doesn't effect phone's capability to be used as modem.
UMTS - welcome, but doesn't matter.
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Can you tell me what models are available from you in India (Pune) that match these specific requirement.
Thanks
Sandeep
[ This Message was edited by: idiotkid on 2006-06-30 17:40 ]
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Posted: 2006-06-30 18:39:51
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I dont know if its available in India, but maybe a Nokia 6021 could be your solution. And what is economic for you, which price range?
[ This Message was edited by: gojnik064 on 2006-06-30 18:54 ]
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Posted: 2006-06-30 19:52:00
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Economic means around 6000 INR (i.e. 120 USD @ 50 USD/INR) . I had purchased a Nokia 3120 couple of days back, but that doesn't support modem functionality, neither on Linux nor on Windows; that's why I have to look for another model from any company with needed features.
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Posted: 2006-07-01 15:40:02
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This Nokia 6021 costs 6,189.01 INR in my country. I think it suites your needs perfectly. No camera, it has IrDA and BT, triband GSM, EDGE.
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Posted: 2006-07-01 17:28:00
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also the 6020, same as 6021 but without BT under Rs. 6000.
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Posted: 2006-07-01 17:38:20
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Yeah they look the same, only diference is that 6020 has a camera but no BT, and 6021 doesnt have a camera but has BT.
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Posted: 2006-07-01 17:50:00
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Nokia 6021 is available for INR 5700 (Bill). See
www.indiagsm.com for most up-to-date prices for it.
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Posted: 2006-07-02 13:33:56
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Thanks for telling about indiagsm site, so far I was getting rough price idea from esato.com phone listing. My brief net search has shown mixed reviews about 6021 - mostly about the speaker and sound quality. Is it worth investing in 6021 after 3120 not serving the purpose?
6021 has Edge, GPRS-10, Bluetooth and IR support, so looks like an option that can serve well for some years, with changing technology.
3120 is not bad, but it doesn't have the GPRS modem feature. I personally liked the model. Any idea what would be it's resale value, I bought it on 10th june 2006, but hardly used it. In less than 3 days after buying it, I knew from airtel folks that it won't work as GPRS modem and since then I have been looking for finding hopes on net if it can work as modem and/or selling it w/o big loss. For my day-to-day phone usage I already have sturdy 3350 giving me company happily for almost 4 years now.
Sandeep
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Posted: 2006-07-03 18:40:08
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@sandeep: If you purchased it from a showroom, most showrooms have a 10 day return/exchange policy. Otherwise ebay.in is your best bet. List it as a new/unopened phone.
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Posted: 2006-07-04 15:36:16
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3120 has GPRS modem, but its class 4 GPRS. So you know you got damn slow speed. Check out
http://mobile.softpedia.com/phones/...okia-3120.shtml
But don't know about 3120 modem driver, nokia stops its GPRS modem driver on PC Suite.
BTW 6021 will be perfwct for your needs.
it supports Class 10 GPRS , but class 6 EDGE, which will be support max. of 177.6 kbps. But originally you you may get max. of 8-9Kbps.
[ This Message was edited by: Digi.Tech on 2006-07-05 02:22 ]
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Posted: 2006-07-05 03:18:55
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