HOP 1800:World's cheapest cellphone "Practically"

HOP HOP and HOP on the 1800 MHZ spectrum. You are there. Only $10. What else do you need. You have a rough and tough phone with 4 hours of talk time and 150 hours of standby time. Looks fairly ok and has embedded vibration, sim lock and keypad lock. Wow! What a fabulous approach when the world is busy selling cheaper iphones. This strategy perfectly makes sense.

Whats on the other side

On the other side is a phone that costs you more and only has a screen. This phone is screen less phone or to say a faceless phone and only has a keypad. It is a cordless phone with a good range and sim in it. Lets see what the world goes for and are they willing to put an extra 0(zero) in their budget to buy a cellphone.

The social downfall

I think it is an engineering marvel( to a certain extent). You can rip of the chasis of ferrari and make it cheaper and you can take out its engine and put a taxi engine or probably rip off a normal car and leave it with an engine and a seat and still say "Hey its the cheapest car". Will you carry with you a $10 handset with no screen, which looks like a walky talky and no display. You better save some dollars for a better phone. These things are good for the records but lets be practical. You wouldn't like to receive a call in a party with your friends and some one shouting "Hey! its that $10 phone". The people today are working hard. They are being payed well and they want to enjoy a higher social status (After all thats what we work for). So why this.
The mantra is "Work more, Earn more and Spend more". Thats not a Albert Einstein quote. Thats my quote.

Telecom companies, Samsung and Spice have come up with entry-level handsets for the Indian market.

Samsung's "Guru100" is a stylish bar-shaped handset equipped with features such as MP3 ring tones, mobile tracker, 9 hours talk time, and up to 500 phone-book entries.
The handset sports a 3.86cm LCD screen and a speaker phone for hands-free comfort. It also includes a Hinglish sms feature that recognizes both English and Hindi words.

Priced at Rs 1,949, "Guru100" weighs 78 grams and measures 104 x 44 x 16.3mm.

Meanwhile, Spice's new entry-level camera phone, "S-585" features FM Radio, VGA camera, and music player.

The one-touch FM Radio and MP3 player comes along with inbuilt speaker phones. Users can also watch videos on the 65K TFT color display. The memory slot is expandable up to 1 GB.

The S-585 comes with essential accessories, including a dual-corded headset and USB cable, and is priced at Rs 2,999.

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South Korean electronics giant Samsung has launched "Guru100", which is a bar shaped handset boasting of "young" features like MP3 ring tones, 500 phone book entries as well as mobile tracker. The Guru100 also has a Hinglish SMS feature that seems to be the current rage among Indian youth.

A 3.86 cm LCD screen and a speaker phone complete the impressive feature list of this phone, which is priced economically at 1,949.

Meanwhile mobile carrier Spice Telecom has introduced "S-585", an entry-level phone that again seems targeted at college-going youth. With FM Radio, VGA camera, and music player, the S-585 is sure to be lapped up rapidly.

The phone also has dual-corded headset, USB cable and an expandable memory slot of up to 1 GB. The S-585 is priced modestly at Rs 2,999.