arnuld

I was using this set from last 1.5 years and it was working fine but from last 1 month, its behaving badly, its battery switches-off automatically sometimes. I paid 1700/- rupees for that. Sometimes when a call comes it switches off, sometimes it switches off silently when it is kept somewhere e.g my office desk. New battery costs 200-300/- but I have a policy of never ever to repair mobiles, just throw them and buy a new one because once a mobile is repaired, it goes into repairing mode forever.

Except of this problem this is a fine handset. The only other problem is a single SMS is limited to 160 characters when the standard is 300, hence a normal SMS comes in 2 parts . I used this phone a lot, I talked non-stop on it for hours and I never had a problem at all. Hence I think I extracted 1700/- rupees in 1.5 years and I have no regrets that its gone now. I sold it for 300/- to some guy, yes I told him the issue, and bought a Samsung Hero (Super Hero ?) worth 1400/- just yesterday.

CDMAs have 2 worst points:

• Customer Care (CC) service of the connection providers is shit. Reliance, BSNL and TAT Indicomm's CC guys are shit.
• Handsets are very expansive. A good quality CDMA handset will cost you around 5-6K. I am not talking about colors, Bluetooth or FM. NO, they are features, I am talking about hardware quality, which is worse. Look at NOKIA 1203 I bought yesterday, prettu solid handset at just 1250/-

Gabu

You Huawei cdma handsets coming out lately from tata and virgin. Pretty solid with good battery backup. I am using one. Working great.