Re: Mobile Buying Guide: December 2012
Pardon the silly question but what is "custom ROM at XDA Forum"?
custom build of Android OS. XDA Developer's site is mostly about Android coding and they create updated Android build and share it with the community.
And another silly question what exactly is a "launcher" and I hope Play store is now what used to be called Android market?
homepage (no of homepage, how you want icons to be arranged and multiple settings associated with it) + the application menu (where the preloaded apps + downloaded apps are available). You can google about Nova, GO, Touchwiz launcher to get an idea.
yup. Android Market = Play Store.
About the p700i can I just erase the custom Lenovo UI and use the stock ICS UI?? Will that void warranty?
you can't simply erase it. But install a second launcher (i.e. Android UI) and make it default. So you have Lenovo's UI but hidden with the new UI (or launcher, whatever you wish to call it) being default.
And any other suggestions (no Indian manufacturers please) other than the U at around 12-13K?
Another is Huawei G330 at 11k but not worth it. Internals are low than Lenovo as well as Xperia U. So decide between U & P700i
One concern that i have is that all the phones that I have seen in this price group all seems to have just 512 MB of RAM? Won't that be a problem??
512MB is just sufficient. 768MB would have been better but not possible in this budget.