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21/08/2008

iPhone

iPhone Hits India on Friday

By Mr. Mayor

The iPhone is due to hit the world’s fastest-growing mobile market, India… on Friday.

The 3G will sell for more than triple the US price in India. Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Essar will sell the new iPhone for 31,000 rupees (or around $712 USD) for the 8GB model. The 16GB model will go for 36,100 rupees.

The higher price in India can be easily explained. In the US and other countries, carriers subsidize the phones by tying the customer to those long, 2 or 3 year subscriptions. The carriers make the money back and more during that period. Indian carriers have no such service ‘lockdowns’.

At last count, more than 200,000 people have already pre-registered for the iPhone. Considering the massive population over there, I’m not sure if that’s an impressive number or not… But one thing is for certain… In the coming months the iPhone is going to be more global than ever.

[via Yahoo! News]

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14/05/2008

Rumors, iPhone

Huge iPhone Launch in India Planned?

By Mr. Mayor

iPhone Launching Soon in India?According to a local report, an upcoming launch of the iPhone in India is set to be the largest in history.

Industry sources say that the iPhone will be sold through 2.5 lakh Vodafone and Airtel retail outlets.

Note: The lakh is a unit of measurement in India… 1 lakh = 100,000… Thereforre 2.5 lakh would mean the iPhone will be available in 250,000 stores. Is that right? Correct me if I’m wrong here… Seems like an awful lot of stores, but then again there are an awful lot of people in India!

The iPhone will also be sold via Apple’s own outlets, which are obviously much fewer in number.

Pricing will apparently be set at Rs 23000, that’s roughly $542 USD by today’s current rates.

No further details were available regarding launch date, but you can bet I’ll keep my ear to the ground on this one. I wonder if this will be part of the rumored international launch I had reported on earlier?

[via Riyaz.net]

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