Comments on: Apple iPhone in India? How many more days we need to wait for it?

By: Jana

Jana — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:32:20 +0000

the apple 3g phone is going to a revolution in the mobile market in india,
i like the intergrated ipod feature, earlier i used to keep ipod and a mobile with me,
now both are in one gadget i am feeling very much happy to hear that, there after i have to carry one one device for my ipod and mobile i,e.. my Apple iphone 3g

By: shridhar

shridhar — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:42:33 +0000

When it will be launch in india and specially in mumbai

By: kailash

kailash — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:57:55 +0000

i am wate for apple iphone 3g perchage

but this phone luanch quaicli luanch in inda in jaipur

i am very impresh for this phone ?

By: Nishit Jogani

Nishit Jogani — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:32:11 +0000

Lol useless applications by SDK, what i meant by u cant use 3rd party applications is that you just cant download any software or game u like… like u do it in Nokia phones… applications u r talkin about r 3rd party but they are officially allowed, i meant any 3rd party software….. hope that clears the misunderstanding and about the 1st point, wait n watch

By: Dev Kanchen

Dev Kanchen — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:59:27 +0000

Called Vodafone Customer Care yester-night (:)) and asked them about this. Said it’ll be launching here around December or so. I don’t remember exactly but with atleast 5 months to go how does it make a difference??

Anyhow, I’d have to disagree with Nishit on both the points. Yes the price will be ‘close’ to 199$ but that doesn’t mean a rupee converter would give you the answer. Taxes and import duties WILL come into play and inflate the price, as they do for ALL electronic consumer goods bought in India. Ask around for a 8800 GTS video card which is supposed to cost a max 300$ and you’d find it’s selling for 14-15k (atleast, it did a while ago when I checked).

Of course you can always expect Vodafone and Airtel to bring the prices to a nice round amount, but it need not necessarily be a lower one. Remember 199$ is a mass-market price in the US and few other places. A phone that costs 10k (IF it does) hits the flaunt-buyer segment here which is sitting quite pretty here. They wouldn’t really see the need to subsidise what basically is a luxury product. This is of course entirely from MY point of view.

Point no.2. Well no third party apps? Gee I wonder what that little thing called the SDK was about.

I don’t mean to preach but please do not claim to know more than another person. You can always just give what you think is the correct answer and leave it at that. Consider the possibility that you could be wrong. I could be. If I sounded rude, I’m sorry. The sarcasm in the previous paragraph was just in response to the sarcasm in your own post. Nothing personal.

Regards,
Dev

By: Nishit Jogani

Nishit Jogani — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:29:49 +0000

Dude, Nishit here i’m a mod in a blog n i do research a lot…

PRICE IS GONNA BE SAME THRU OUT THE WORLD… STEVE TOLD IN HIS PRESENTATION…. SURF A LIL BIT.. INDIANS ARE ALL LAZYS HEHEHEHEHE

ONLY THING MIGHT HIT MORE ON UR POCKET IS AIRTEL POSTPAID PLANS…

@SHANADE
NEVER EVER APPLE WILL ALOW 3RD PARTY APPLICATIONS, WHY DO U THINK PPL PREFER NOKIA….

PLEASE USE GOOGLE TO KNOW ANYTHING N EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD =D

By: yogesh

yogesh — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:15:24 +0000

can you tell me the price of apple3g phone after launching in india

By: Ankit

Ankit — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:59:53 +0000

I was planning on getting the iPhone from the US, but its a big dud now that its going to be on sale in collabaration with AT&T. I was thinking about getting it here and unlocking it.

India is so backward still in technology. We still don’t have 3G.

PS : its rumour and not roomer :p

By: Harry

Harry — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:47:31 +0000

By the end of the year…expect the fireworks somewhere in November this year. And Airtel seems quite excited about it, scoop is that some of the top honchos from various regions are currently in talk with the top management trying to chalk out a strategy for the ‘first phase’!
It just keeps getting cooler!

By: shande

shande — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:10:25 +0000

I think 3G phone will work with a EDGE sim, the backward compatibility will be there. I prefer iPhone 3G as it has nice features such as GPS. Also it supports third party applications.