Top 10 social networking phones in India

Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, YouTube, Picasa and many more - there's hardly a day in our hectic daily life when we can live without visiting any of these popular social networking sites. It's uber cool to be socially active and having a long list of followers or friends on your profile.

In fact, a recent study suggests that the most of the workers felt more productive after an 'ebreak' surfing the Internet than they did after a tea break. And obviously surfing the Internet these days comprises more of accessing social networking sites than other activities.

The smartphones are also designed these days keeping this latest trend in mind. There are now Facebook phones and social networking phones to cater to that audience who spend more time in the virtual world than the real world.

The HTC ChaCha and HTC Salsa may take some time to reach this part of the world but there are a slew of devices in the market that offer social networking support to the users. We have included 10 devices in this list which are based on high-end to budget price range.

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10
Powered by Android OS, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 is another device that you can look forward to for a good social networking experience on a smartphone. Overlayed with Sony Ericsson's own UX platform, it comes with new features including Timescape, which, like Motorola's MotoBlur, manages all your communication with one person in one place, including Facebook, Twitter, photos, emails, and texts.

Also, the Mediascape helps you get all the music, photos and videos you want using your phone, YouTube and PlayNow. It packs a powerful 8.1-megapixels camera and a huge TFT capacitive touchscreen. It is priced at Rs. 35,795.

BlackBerry Torch
Research In Motion has unveiled its latest high-end device the BlackBerry Torch in the Indian market. The phone packs the new BlackBerry 6 OS. It's a slider touchscreen phone that offers a slew of social networking tools. It comes equipped with a sliding QWERTY keyboard and a 5-megapixels autofocus camera.

The BlackBerry Torch offers a BlackBerry Messenger, Facebook, Twitter and MySpace tools. Preloaded with a new WebKit based browser, the Torch provides HTML web pages and emails.The Blackberry Torch 9800 is priced at Rs. 33,990 in India but you can get this device online at much lower price.

Samsung Galaxy S
The Samsung Galaxy S is still one of the most successful devices launched by the Korean smartphone maker. The Galaxy S comes with amazing specs and offers loads of social networking tools to the users. It runs Android OS 2.1 but will be soon getting Android 2.3 Gingerbread update.

The phone packs a 4 inch Super AMOLED WVGA screen display, 5 megapixel camera with 720p HD video recording, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth 3.0 and 1GHz processor. Galaxy S further offers access to Android market, microSD card slot and 3.5mm headphone jack. Samsung Galaxy S is priced at Rs. 31,500 in the Indian market.

HTC Desire S
The HTC Desire S has recently arrived in the Indian market. The smartphone is highly optimized for all your social networking needs. It runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS. The device sports a 3.7 inch touchscreen, 5-meapixels camera, HTC Sense UI, 1GHz processor, 768MB RAM and 1.1GB memory.

It comes enabled with Friend Stream social networking tool to help you get the feeds from Facebook, Twitter and other sites directly to your devices home scree. Then you have the option to add Gmail, Exchange and other email accounts on your device. The HTC Desire S is priced at about Rs. 25,490 in the Indian market.

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