Comments on: Unlocked Google Android Phone in India – HTC Magic

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:34:01 +0000

John, point to consider here is that the standard of living is vastly different in both countries. So while you debate on what “dirt cheap” services we are offered, you should also consider the fact that the conversion from USD to INR doesn’t affect Indians one bit.

By: Arvind

Arvind — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:41:49 +0000

I wouldn’t buy anything phone above 2k. My barrier is, that of an average Indian…:-) he he he.

By: John

John — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:29:52 +0000

No…you Indians do not have to pay much because your cell phone service in India is dirt cheap. The US cost for the G1 is a SUBSIDIZED cost. The United States is one of the three most expensive cell phone markets in the world along with Canada and Spain. ARPU for the US cell phone companies is $50 while in India it is less than 300 Rupees. Do your currency conversion and that is about 7 USD only. There are 450 millions cell phone users in India paying a total of only 21 billion USD for their services while there are 250 million cell phone users in America spending more than 200 billion USD on their services. You do the math and figure out whether your cell phones in India are expensive or not….they are not because of your no contract dirt cheap service. Oh..and by the way…take all that money you are saving from dirt cheap labor and dirt cheap healthcare costs and use that to buy your G1. America spends more money on healthcare than Indians spend on all consumer goods and services.

By: Kaushik

Kaushik — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:20:06 +0000

Of course man, 20k is a barrier. This phone should never be costlier than 15k.

By: arvind

arvind — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:14:40 +0000

Is 20k a price barrier for an Indian buyer?

By: Sk

Sk — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:52:55 +0000

A gud looking phone with gud features but when compared with its price its too costly. it price shld b around 15k-20k (INR)

By: Satendra

Satendra — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:57:25 +0000

HTC marketing guys are a–ho—. Just compare this stupid phone with Nokia
E-71. E-71 is having more new features (e.g advanced EDGE Class 32, 296 kbps, Videocall camera, WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML support, Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF) incl. MS Office 2007 support via free update, Printing) and ,
backward compatible features (e.g. infrared etc).
HTC doesn’t deserve this price and should be in the range of 15K INR and I am sure
HTC’s stupid marketing team will soon realize this.

By: jayesh.thadani

jayesh.thadani — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:53:48 +0000

I was eagerly waiting for android phone’s launch in india.

but i m bit disappointed with cost that airtel has put in, as it is available in u.s with pretty low cost.. then y we indian hve to pay tht much???

By: AJ

AJ — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:03:03 +0000

I think the price is too high. Android is all good and geeky with the Google Brand but IPhone is the real brand which will sell at that price point.

Plus with the recent launch of the n97, I think at 30K, it is even more of bad price point to position this handset

By: Tanmay

Tanmay — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:34:09 +0000

Sucess at this cost….dont think so. But half the price [15K] and it will sell like bus tickets…

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By: Freshers Jobs India

Freshers Jobs India — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:39:23 +0000

This seems to be an exciting proposition. Whatever Google does brings some novelty to the customer.
I hope it does not go the iPhone way.