I bought my tata indicom prepaid mobile when they offered the non stop mobile life offer two months back.I bought the cheapest phone indicom gem for 2199/- even though the phone is lightweight I never liked the appeal of this phone.But in the mobile life offer handsets had no nokia phone among them.The gem phone had a ruim/t-sim slot and was enabled, the advantage of which is that you can buy any ruim/t-sim enabled cdma handset of any brand and insert the tata indicom t-sim into it and the new phone is ready for this you need no handset change card .It is simple as a gsm handset.My local duty paid shop offered me 1200/-fo my gem in exchange with a nokia2112cdma.So I paid 1700/- +my old gem and got my nokia 2112.It is the cheapest nokia cdma phone avilable.The phone is having black and white display, it is cute with good build quality.the battery gives me a standby time of 4 to5 days.It is wap enabled and I am able to surf wap sites (yahoo, rediff, tatazone etc )for free which was not available with gem. It do have a flash light(torch) usefull in darkness.So far signal reception is considered it is less by two bars than gem which had a stumb antenna, in the case of 2112 it is internal antenna making it ’s network catching less.My near tower is 2km away but still I can talk with normal quality and speech clarity.The battery used in nokia 2112 is same as the nokia colour phones, it’s charging time is 1.5 hours for a full charge.It get hot if you use it for 10mnts, but it is common for all cdma sets.2112 is a entry level phone and cann’t expect too much from it.It do have a speaker phone too.Even though every provider offers life long mobile, only tata said it provides balance cary forwarding, so that once recharged you can use it for life provided you don’t exhaust it by using it.I think this is the cheapest way to stay mobile for people with low outgoing calls.Or if your outgoing call nature is not predictable, ie may or may not.It is impossible to separate phone and service provider in cdma network hence mixed something about the provider too.Any way I am a satisfied customer of both nokia and tata indicom.More details and photo of the phone canbe viewed from nokia india website.
Santo o kundukulam