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I bought a Xolo mobile Xolo Q900S in 10 March 2014 and it went to its service centre on 3rd June 2014, that is after 84 days! Since then, no update about after many Email enquiry, except useless reply like, its still under repair, we will soon get back to you. yes, they have a toll free customer service number and that can not be dialed from Airtel Mobile of Rajasthan! And today is 19 Jun 2014!

With that experience with Xolo, I can safely write my top three reasons not to buy Xolo Mobile, forget their advertisements in TV or forget their sponsoring NewsHour in TimesNow!

1. Quality Control Issue

Xolo must be having poor quality control issue which means they have no control on quality of their mobiles manufactured. In a lot, there may be good quality mobile and there may be poor quality mobile and you can never be sure if the one you bought is of good quality! Its like lottery, you are having a good day, buy Xolo and you may end up getting a good phone else, you will be frustrated with their service and Xolo mobile!
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What is risk of buying ‘not so famous’ or non-branded mobile phone in Indian market ?

1. Quality Control
Its almost lottery while buying a premium looking, specification rich yet low cost or affordable mobile phone from ‘non-branded’ or non premium brand mobile manufacturer in India. If you get a good piece, well, you are lucky, if not, then you would encounter their nightmarish service!

Recently, I bought a XOLO Q900 mobile phone from a shop in Udaipur and I was plain unlucky in the lottery! I got a poor quality handset and in 2 months, the handset started showing WIFI problem! It just does not switch on WIFI so I could not enable whireless hotspot rendering my Nexus tab ( Wifi Only) useless!
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Many people will immediately connect with the topic above and may have experienced similar! Recently, I also faced similar decisions.

I am talking about Blackberry phone! Most of initial period of Mobile world till 2009, I was using some phones from either Nokia or Sony Ericsson. I was happy with voice calls and occasional texting. But in 2010, the mobile world changed for me when I started using a Blackberry! Initially, I make mistakes typing using their legendary QWERTY keyboard, but less than 6 months, I was so good in typing in Blackberry that, I could type 2 page email reply in less than 10 minutes!

Then in 2012, I tried with iconic Apple IPhone, but could not type well like Blackberry so, did not continue. Listening music was never my passion, so I gave up IPhone.
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Finally, I am happy to have kicked out Airtel Digital TV from my home and brought in DishTV. It was a painful experience with Airtel Diagital TV and I urge everyone who likes not to be taken for a ride and expect reasonably good customer service, should get rid of Airtel Digital TV as soon as possible.

Here are main reasons for discarding Airtel Digital TV:

1. Though Airtel advertises that they have an à la carte option where user can opt for the channels through their website, that does not work. Actually, whole of Airtel website is full of bugs. And if you call their customer care number, then they will say, ohh, it does not support that browser, that version etc etc. Is not hat amazingly stupid for a company like Airtel ? I tried to get à la carte many times, but did not succeed.
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Till now, I have never put any Copyright notice or copyright water mark on any of the photos I have taken. But I have decided to use copyright watermark in my photographs. Yes, old photographs will remain without any watermark.

Here are reasons, why I did not put any copyright watermark before:-

1. I did not feel, the photographs were ‘good enough’ to have copyright water mark! So, I never thought some one would actually use them! So, why bother with water mark!
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Chinkara or Indian Gazalle at Jaisamand Wild Life Santuary, Udaipur.

I bought Micromax Canvas HD which is a very good phone. A very good for a very good price and I was very happy witht he phone. Still, I sold that n Facebook and ended up buying a Samsung Tab 3 211. I think I would write, why I did that.

1.After using Micromax Canvas HD for some 15 days, I realised that, the 5″ screen is too large to keep them in pocket and not so large that one can actually enjoy some video! Either way, it fails! Though it has excellent screen!

2. Due to its 5″ screen size, the touch keyboard was not big enough to use both hands and small enough to use one hand, for me. So, I was making lot of typing mistakes.

3. The audio quality of Micromax Canvas HD was really, really bad. It wasnot even as good as Samsung Guru Music phone! It also provided a very poor quality or bad headphone. I did not like them.

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I am not sure what does it mean, but I have seen many job seekers in Assam ( specially my relatives) always visit local MLA/MP for some recommendation letter for job where some recruitment is going on. I tried to search Google “Can MP/MLA in India recommend a candidate in recruitment process ?” and it did not produce any satisfactory result.

I do not know, if MP/MLA can recommend some candidate for any job or not, but I see many candidates in Assam visiting their local MLA/MP for that. I mean how does that work ? I know surely for SSC ( Staff Selection Commission) of the NER ( North Eastern Region) that if they get such letter, they simply throw them into dustbin.

So, why do job seeking candidates seek such ‘recommendation letter’ from MP/MLA ? Does it actually help ? Is it legal ? Do you know anyone who actually got some job by these kind of recommendation letters ?