Buying a smartphone below Rs 7,000 requires more care than buying a smartphone that costs Rs 20,000 or above. In the upper range even the bad ones will not be as bad, but in the entry level category you can get stuck with phones that won't work for you because they have too little in terms of hardware to be able to work smoothly, or they simply have very poor implementation. So the first thing that you need to do is not to buy an Android smartphone with less than 512 MB of RAM. Don't buy a phone with a very small battery (we will soon give a matrix to decide on the size). However, generally speaking 1450 mAh is what you need if you are considering a 4 inch device; 1250 in case of any Android phone. We have made some selections for you, which we think are the best phones south of the Rs 7,000 price point. We have not taken really entry level price points in consideration and will address those separately later.
Xolo A500 (Rs 6,500)
Xolo has created a name amongst Indian brands as a quality conscious brand, and is know to deliver among the best performances for the money. So we have chosen the very entry level phone from its portfolio the Xolo A500, (not to be confused with X500). The dual SIM phone comes with a 4 inch display with WVGA , 480 x 800 pixel resolution and 1 GHz dual core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor coupled with 512 RAM and 4 GB ROM. The phone is currently based on Android 4.0, but Xolo has said that it will upgrade the phone to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, and that makes this device an even more desirable product. In the camera department you get a 5 megapixel unit at the back and a VGA in front. The phone also has a 1500 mAh battery with 9 hours of claimed talktime.
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