Mid range android phone from Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini had just recently got a price cut of about Rs. 1,000. Most of the popular online shopping web sites like Flipkart and Letsbuy particularly have updated their sites accordingly.
Presently Xperia Mini is retailing at Rs. 12,000 including VAT. You can do more bargain at a local shop but i am pretty sure that most of the local shops and dealers here in Indian cities will still quote a higher price for this phone in the same way as they are doing for HTC sensation which also had recently got a price cut of about Rs. 6,000.
After this price cut Xperia Mini beats all other Smart Phones in this range from other companies like Samsung. Samsung have Ace as the only contender to Mini but the build quality of Ace is far lower than the Mini. Also ICS update for Xperia Mini had already been announced but there is no ICS update coming for Samsung Ace.
This price cut can also be attributed to the fact that Sony Ericsson is now just Sony and hence they are slowly phasing out their old Ericsson models and bringing in the new ones. We can expect more price cute from Sony in the near future when they are going to release the new Xperia line up.