[General Questions and Answers] abhibhp:
Hi Guys,

Thinking of shifting from my Blackberry to either Droid or WinMo. I don't really care much about whether i get Windows 8 future upgrade or Android 5.0.

For me the phone should be able to do the following easily:

1. Call Quality / Signal

2. Nice Build for the price. My BB is going strong even after falling from 20 ft heights. I don't expect touch screen phones to be that durable but still they should not just give away if they fell off the hand identically at 4 or 5 ft height.

3. Push Emailing. I have 8 email address on my BB. I can cut them down to 5 (3 work and 2 personal).

4. Good battery life / Talk Time.

5. Deep FB integration

I use my current phone for the following:

1. BBM / Social (FB / Twitter)

2. Emails

3. Occasional SMS around 300 a Month on an average.

4. Phone calls around 2-3 Hours.

5. Browsing (Maybe 10-15 mins a day)

I don't play videos on phone at all unless something really urgent i have to see. That must be once a month or twice. I am music freak but still don't use my current phone for music, just occasional listening for an hour or 2 in a month. I will be keeping 2 phones BB is not going but will be used only for BBM. So my emails / Social experience will shift to the other phone.

My BB easily lasts a whole day and sometimes more. At the moment its already 18 hours since the last charge.

Now most of my friends have BB's and we all love them for BBM / Social experience. A few have shifted to Droids / Apples / WinMo (very less with WinMo). I got a chance to use all of them and Loved the WinMo for its fluidity and ease of use and build of Lumia 800. Its more fluid than S3 and comparing them on 2G internet the Lumia is as fast as S3 in browsing etc. I was amazed that Lumia though looses out on benchmarks by a wide margin but is very easily able to keep up with S3 or One X or 4S etc. Even the FB integration on Lumia is amazing.

Now the real problem is I love the Lumia 800 but its out of my budget. I don't like spending a lot on mobile phones and be the one who has the latest and the greatest all the time. For me it has to be a stable phone which can go over 2 years without bugging me.

I will avoid Samsung, not because i hate them. I like the fact they have became so successful. Their screen's are good and hardware is amazing on spec sheet. But their build just doesn't seems right to me, Sorry.

I am checking for Droids under 15-17k INR and found the following to be good:

1. HTC One V - Nice build quality, Comes with ICS works very well and good enough talk time according to reviews.

2. Sony Xperia V or L - Good build again but i found it a lil laggy when upgraded to ICS though the UI is as good as HTC Sense. I have heard Sony has deep facebook integration.

3. Google Nexus S - I have not seen or checked the phone in person but there seems to be good reviews and its well under my budget but without any warranty. I want to know hows the Jelly Bean experience with it. I dont want lags with menu's and while browsing. Also can we use this phone as usb device to transfer data.

4. Any other phone i should look out except from Samsung / Moto (They dont have enough i guess) or LG.

I know Android is highly customizable and i would like if i can have the following:

1. Deep FB / Twitter integration like WinMo.

2. Live tile like on WinMO on Android screen for FB friends / Pictures in my Gallary. I think a Widget like this should be there.