Today morning I got a message from Vodafone announcing the release date and pricing details for Apple iPhone. I had enrolled for the communication as I was eagerly awaiting its release in India. But when I saw the prices, I was very much disappointed. 8 Gb model is priced at Rs 31000 ($720 approx) and 16 Gb model will cost Rs 36,100 ($840 approx)
Most of the people were expecting it to be priced around Rs 15k-20K but Rs 31k is way too much. If you search internet , you will find lot of articles which tell that iPhone lacks many of the basic CellPhone functionalities like forwarding sms , has only 2 MP camera,FM Radio. Anyways I have decided against buying iPhone. I think buying a decent Nokia Phone and iPod Touch will be a wise decision rather than investing in iPhone. Note that we still have not received details about data plans which Vodafone and Airtel will be releasing for accessing internet and other data services. But be assured that this will not be less. Both companies are expecting to sell 100,000 phones in next 1 year (by pre-registration) but after the price release, I do not see this happening (unless they cut prices drastically)
You can read more about it in below mentioned links
http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=331955
http://www.vodafone.in/iphone/Pages/iPhone_details.aspx?cid=kar
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