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villain ji thats not right :) Dell XCD has 2 models Dell XCD28 (Rs.7300) & Dell XCD35 ~ (Rs.10500) which is mine. I brought at 10.2

Today Dell has given an Ad for its Smartphones in which XCD35 is priced 11K. This is not the final price but just to show you that always the difference can be max around Rs.1000.

Otherwise, let me break some myths which may or may exist for this phone :)
1) Its a rebranded phone which is originally manufactured by chinese company ZTE, which is not just a crap china mobile company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZTE

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As of 2011 it is the second-largest Chinese telecoms equipment maker and the world's fifth-largest mobile phone manufacturer.[2]

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2) This phone is extremely popular among developers for hacking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZTE_Blade

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Reviews of the ZTE Blade have been very positive due to the amount of features offered while maintaining a low price. The screen in particular received praise, while the camera/camcorder quality was identified as one of the few downsides to the device. Various websites, mainly MoDaCo and XDA-developers, have created a very large modifications scene around the Blade.

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Its been sold in various names by various carriers in these 17 countries - Great Britain, Finland, France, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Sweden, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Portugal, Poland, Spain, Greece, India, Japan, Lithuania, Moldova. Its also sold in USA, named as Orange San Francisco

As you know, developers/hackers will primarily choose a phone which has best specs for the best price, which actually is what normal consumers also look for :wink:

So all this rebranding et all need not be considered at all, even if its considered, its ZTE!

nvm i was trying to say the 'brand' Dell always has a premium price

SKV, am planning to buy a Laptop cooling pad for my Acer. Which one you suggest?

sathya, i don't know any branded ones, i used a local one, it has cheap transparent plastic, with 3 fans. i didn't like the elevation so not using it. ~ Rs.100 & electronics shop.
http://cgi.ebay.in/USB-Cooling-Pad-L...item3a67898c4d

There is a costly one (Rs.600) - http://cgi.ebay.in/Laptop-Notebook-S...item2311fb801b

Also compare this site with ebay and choose - http://www.deltapage.com/categories....es/Cooler-Pads

One important thing is, look how is ur laptop bottom, locate where is the CPU placed. Already there shud be a cooling fan placed at bottom and hot air exit placed near it sidewise. So choose a pad which covers ur CPU part closely, so it will get more air.

For any one running windows, if laptop is getting too hot, i would recommend to remove as many as useless programs/tasks running in background, in case you are unable to avoid heavy multitasking.

As a good practice, its better to use brush and vacuum cleaning kit like these - http://shop.ebay.in/?_from=R40&_trks...All-Categories.

Thanks Thanks :) Planning to buy vacuum as well.

I already suggested buying Dell XCD35 for those interested in Android phones in 10K Range. While that holds true, the limitations in XCD35 are
medium quality camera,
Mono speaker
poor playback of videos above 720p

Apart from this, all features are beneficial and great value for money.

Today i found another android phone much better than this. If u r willing to shen extra 4K, a total of 14K, you are getting a phone which is highly superior in all ways and there is absolutely NO PHONE with equivalent tech specs, in that range. That phone is Spice Mobile M-410. If you think Spice is a 3rd grade indian company buying poor/medium quality phones, well i don;t know, but this phone is NOT from Spice. This too is a rebranded phone like the Dell XCD35. Spice gets this phone from Huawei who originally manufactures the phone in name of Huawei Ideos X6 (Huawei U9000).

http://www.spiceglobal.com/SpiceMobi...el.aspx?id=200
http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=pdacomp...=2736&id2=2710
This phone is sold under various names in different regions as
Cherry Mobile Magnum HD A400 (philippines),
Spice CSL Mi 410 – Slim (india),
WellcoM A99 (thailand) and
CSL Blueberry Mi 410.

Faster CPU(1GHz), more internal Flash memory(2GB), Faster RAM(LPDDR), Faster Wi-Fi(b/g/n), bigger Display(4.1 inch), high SPeed 3g(14 Mbps as compared to 7.2 Mbps), Super camera (5 MP) HDMI Video out, , stereo speakers, all at just Rs.14,000 makes this phone much greater than Dell XCD35. Added, it can be ported to Android 2.3(comes with 2.2).

All other goodies like Bluetooth(2.1), GPS, 480 x 800 resolution, Capacitive touchscreen, 3.5mm audio-jack, microSD & USB Slot, Camera Flash, 1400Mh battery etc adds much glamour to this phone.

The CPU in this phone is no less. Its the same cpu used in HTC Desire HD, HTC Desire S, HTC Incredible S, HTC Inspire, Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc/Neo/Play/Pro/Mini/Ray/Active, T-Mobile myTouch 4G, Sharp GALAPAGOS/DM009SH, Blackberry Bold/Torch/Touch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapdra...Specifications

And Huawai is the largest networking and telecommunications equipment supplier in China and the second-largest supplier of mobile telecommunications infrastructure equipment in the world (after Ericsson). so no owrries about Rebranding. This phone beats the Crap Samsung/HTC/Motorola phones in 15K range.

i hav a dell inspiron 64bit laptop which is 1 yr old with win7.
recently it is giving me notifications like 'consider replacing your battery', ie, the place where it shows the battery symbol in the rightside corner the battery icon appears with a cross symbol in red..

anybody hav any idea or faced anything similar?

SS, no idea about ur problem, but as it is related to battery, i would like to know how long ur battery lasts after a full recharge?! :)

one hour, since the day i bought it.

Ok, i asked just in case to know the health of the battery. Generally laptops need to be connected to wall charger ONLY when they ask for, and then has to run till the battery is fully empty. that means, till the system asks you to connect to wall charger. But most of us tend to just connect to wall charger, almost all the time, which is highly incorrect. Thats ok for few times, like, in emergency, critical work, or in risk/fear of a power cut etc but not always.

Becos of that wrong habit, the battery life will come down from 2.30 hours(approx for most new laptops) to just 5 to 10 mins, in a span of just one year. Otherwise, if properly maintained as said above, any laptop shud give a decent life for aprox 2.5 years

SS, maybe on vague terms, i may suggest you use some battery monitoring apps which may run for few days and give you a summary on ur battery health. Other steps may be like, reinstall the battery driver etc. Even though, 1 hour is not good, its certainly not a bad standby time. So ur battery shud be ok. Problem may be in other areas.

Some select models of Acer Aspire Timeline series are designed to give a standy time of 7 hrs. This series is in price range starting from 30K to 45K. An average of 35K 15.6 models have excellent specs. My friends who brought that are very happy.

Dell has a laptop with 19 hour standby time, but thats purely corporate, priced close to 60/70K.