A List of Top 10 mobiles in India under Rs 20000

Here I have tried to list the top 5 smartphones that comes in India under Rs 20,000 range

1. HTC 8S

This is one of the best Windows phone that you can get under 20,000 INR range. This phone has a 4-inch LCD display supporting 800 x 480 pixel resolution. The phone has a dual core 1 GHz Qualcomm S4 MSM8227 mobile processor with a 512 MB RAM. The phone weighs around 113 grams and is 10.28 mm thick. The downside is that it has only a 4GB internal storage eventhough it supports up to a 32 GB micro SD card. The phone comes with a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, which is capable of recording 720p HD videos, downside again - no front camera. It comes with a 1700 mAh battery.

Price: Rs 19,260

2. Xolo X900

The phone is packed with a Android 2.3 Gingerbread but has been promoted to the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich updateIt comes with a single core 1.6 GHz Intel Atom mobile processor and 1 GB RAM. The phone features a 4-inch display with Corning's Gorilla Glass. It has an 8 megapixel camera with a 1.3 MP front camera that can  record full 1080p HD videos. The phone packs a 14460 mAH battery.

Price: Rs 16,500

3. HTC Desire X

This phone runs on the HTC Sense 4.0 user interface and Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich. The phone comes with a  4-inch Super LCD touchscreen display, Super LCD display with 480 x 800 pixel resolution. It is packed with a dual core 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon mobile processor. The sound quality is pretty awesome as it is powered by the Beats Audio technology. But down side? Another phone with a 4 GB internal memory, but supports up to 32 GB via microSD. It has a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash, but sadly cant record HD videos. The phone has a 160 mAH battery and can run for almost a day without heavy usage. 

Price: Rs 18,500

4. Samsung Grand Duos

When it is a Samsung product, we dont have to think twice. It has to be awesome. This phone comes with an Android Icecream Sandwich. Its also a 4 inch dual sim phone  with a 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM 7227A. The LCD display has a 480 x 800 pixel resolution. It is powered by an Adreno 200 graphics engine. Now that I have been talking about downsides with the internal memory of all the previous mentioned Smartphone, this one also has only a 4 GB internal memory. expandable to 32 GB. Duos has a 5 MP camera but is only capable of recording VGA resolution videos.  It also has a VGA front cam.

Price: Rs 14,500

5. Sony XPeria GO

Before we go into anything, we need to talk about its screen. The phone comes with a scratch resistant mineral glass display and meets industry standard IP (Ingress Protection) rating 67 to fight off dust and the effects of water immersion as well. Pretty neat right?! The phone comes with a 3.5-inch 320 x 480 pixel reality display, with an Android ICS display. Now that we have been talking about the downsides of the other phones being the fact that all of them have a low inbuilt memory, this one comes with an 8 GB on board memory, with a  1 GHz dual core processor along with 512 MB of RAM. It has a 5 MP front cam, but no rear camera.

Price: Rs 16,000 

A review of Lava Xolo A100. Can it outplay Canvas HD A116?

Again! We have one more competitor to the Micromax Canvas HD - The lava Xolo A1000. The phone has a 1GHz dual-core Mediatek MT6577 processor along with 1GB RAM. 

Looks

The phone, as a whole looks pretty decent. To be frank, it actually beats Canvas HD in looks! But if you look closely, a flaw (is it?) that one could notice is the position of the camera button. What we usually get to see is a button on the right hand side of the phone, so that clicking a photo becomes easy for the user, but here it’s on the left side of the phone. Could not actually make out why they put the button there! The back camera, 8 MP, is a bit protruded outwards which by the looks of it, is not that appealing. Display wise, it is a 5 inch HD 1280 x 720 with a 295 ppi pixel density. The view angles for the phone are pretty decent and the screen looks pretty sharp. So beats Canvas HD on looks.

Camera

The phone has an 8 MP Autofocus rear cam and a 1.2 MP front cam. Image clicking happens with ease, and the clarity is pretty good. The downside though is the fact that the videos recorded using this phone is a '.3gp' format which is a very ancient one! Again can’t understand the reason behind this. 

Operating System

The phone comes with a 4.1.1. Andy Jellybean, quite similar to all the JB family. The addition is the presence of apps like Xolo Care, typically a hassle free customer service app. Not bad! 

The speed and performance factor

The phone comes with a 1 GHz Mediatek's dual-core MT6577 chipset with 1 GB Ram. Downside is frequent crashes while running multiple apps. 

Performance/ Battery

This smartphone is powered by Mediatek's dual-core MT6577 chipset, which clocks in at a speed of 1GHz. This is coupled with 1GB RAM. The Xolo A1000 is quite responsive and we did not encounter any lags or crashes while multi-tasking. The 2100 mAH battery can last for a day maximum depending on the usage, but the backup is pretty decent.

Verdict

It sure is a great competitor to Canvas HD, as it beats the Canvas in a lot of aspects. But at the end of the day what we need is more reliability and better service  along with a decent performance., Although both the phones do provide that,  Micromax has a slight upper edge considering its reach and service availability all over India.