First cell for a teenager ( Must be Touch or Touch-n-type, pref. Androdi if available for 5-6K)

[dshirvaikar]

Budget? Would prefer around 5K and certainly not more than 6K
2. Display type and size? Only Touch
3. Form Factor? bar, slider, flip? Anything in vogue
4. Preferred choice of brand? Samsung then Nokia then Sony
5. Preferred input method (QWERTY, touchscreen, numpad, touch-n-type). Touch , touch-n-type will also be ok....
6. What camera option you want? Please specify need for flash, autofocus, front facing camera - anything will do
7. Preferred operating system? (Android, Symbian, iOS, Windows Phone etc) - Android...certainly not Windows
8. Preferred connectivity options (3G, Wifi etc). Please specify clearly. - Not looking at 3G. Wifi, Bluetooth will do
9. Preferred applications (Flash, Swype, GPS, etc)? - The usual ones a teenager would want....
10. Primary use of handset (multimedia, camera, mails, internet, gaming etc)? - Multimedia, camera, Gaming (not looking at mails and internet currently)
11. Any specific mobile phones in consideration? Looked at Samsung range Galaxy Y and Rex, also heard good reviews about Asha. May consider Micromax
12. Any other info that you want to share - This is will be the first cell my 14-year son is going to own, so not looking at anything very flashy and/or expensive.

 

[thetechfreak]

Samsung Galaxy Y.

 

[sayan8]

+1 Galaxy Y.

 

[Flash]

4. Preferred choice of brand? Samsung then Nokia then Sony
7. Preferred operating system? (Android, Symbian, iOS, Windows Phone etc) - Android...certainly not Windows

Don't go for Samsung Rex.
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[papul1993]

You can also check out Nokia Asha 311.

 

[RON28]

Micromax A89 is your son is going to play games.

price is 6.1k locally

 

[coderunknown]

Micromax A89 is your son is going to play games.

this. Galaxy Y is crap. small, slow, running on legacy android platform, low on internal memory. lastly most games are no longer supported.

 

[thetechfreak]

this. Galaxy Y is crap. small, slow, running on legacy android platform, low on internal memory. lastly most games are no longer supported.

Hmmmm.
Good point. I should have kept it in mind.

OP go for the A89.

 

[pacificb0y]

See It will be impossible to get a smart phone from the reputed companies you have mentioned like samsung , nokia or sony
you can get All other features in 6k except Gaming . For gaming your smart phone must have a adreno 200 or 205 gpu

So in my opinion Please invest additional 1.5 k A?Nd get a HTC Explorer which will cost you 7.5 k
Other wise YOu need to compromise

Or Go with Micromax Ninja A89

Or XOLO A500 [1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon, Dual Core,Adreno 203, HD Game Support,4 Inches,Yes, 5 Megapixel,Android v4 (Icecream Sandwich),Wi-Fi Enabled] price 6.5k
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Another Option Huawei Ascend Y210D
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[vidhubhushan]

XOLO A700 looks better than XOLO A500 though it is priced INR1500 above that.

 

[Nerevarine]

Huawei Y300 is another good option

 

[Lalit Kishore]

Flex your budget a bit and get the HTC Explorer @7K approx.