Apple launches 3G iPhone in India

[ankitgokani]

Apple Inc's iPhone 3G made its debut in India

The stunning sleek looking 3G iPhone combines a music and video player, cellphone and web browser.

The phone was launched in 6 cities - Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkatta, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad, on the midnight on August 21 and will be available in 65 more cities from August 22 onwards.

The Apple 3G iPhone is priced at Rs 31,000 for 8GB and the 16GB version is available for Rs 36,000.

The company officials said that it received more than 200,000 pre-bookings for the new iPhone even before prices had been announced.

Do you think iPhone 3G will make it big in India??

[born2rule]

yea saw the news 2 days back in ndtv...
cool piece it is...wid lot of features...the only thing is
its quite expensive 8 gb for 31,000 and 16 gb for 36,000..
who could afford to pay so much for just a mobile piece which
keeps on changing after every month.

[kartik]

LG has launched a similar kind of GSM phone which will be priced at 20,000 rs.

[ROHAN KACHALIA]

i dont think i-phone will make a big hit in india.....simply because its too costly and moreover the models keep on changing every now and then.....i feel that evn the craze for mobile phone is not much now...each and every phone offers most of the features....

i-phone will only be a status phone rather than a user phone...

[squareleg]

I think it will be lapped up by the upwardly mobile at first. Besides I dont think most ppl use all the features. And so after initial success, I c the cost coming down significantly in a years time.

Like Nokia 6600 which initially came at 20000+ and then down quickly, But Nokia did have all those N Series lined up.

[nisha_asija]

i also agree thet this phone w'l hv grt success initially and only by the youngstrz but latr on its price wl come dwn as in case on Nokia 5200 itwas of rs 8000 but nw awalabl at half.

[yshah84]

iphone is gud...but not at the price...of 36100...i think e71 is really gud fone from Nokia...