Officially, iPhone may not be available in the Indian market for another few months. But are Indians really looking out for iPhone? I don’t think so. Have a look at the trend data:
Max. searches are emanating from Singapore, Greece and HongKong,
All said and done, Indians aren’t the innovator/early adopters, but I hope they don’t turn out to be laggards as well (as always with any Apple products) !!
But in case, if you are heavily “bogged” by the iPhone hype, here are a few tips/good news for you:
- Wipro and HCL are in a process to ink a deal for the dealership, but nothing has been finalized (link)
- Though the current iPhone works only with AT &T , thanks to the ‘grey market’, even Indians can use the iPhone (with local operator connection)
“grey market operators say they can “unlock” the phone for just Rs 1,000 or Rs 1,500 so that it can be used on any network in India.” [Business Standard] - Go for the alternatives :
The funny thing is that iPhone book/manuals are out too! (@Amazon).
Well, who doesn’t want to cash on the hype – be it user generated or blogger/media generated hype?
Tell me honestly – how much of media hype has affected your perception about iPhone? As far as I am concerned, iPhone is all hype to me.
I won’t be surprised if users, in another few days start reporting problems (remember iPod heating up?)
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its all hype man…!! I am sure 90% of ppl dont even know the features of iphone.
good one..honestly none of the indian users will even thnk of buying iphone…
they will buy the indianized version of iphone!:)
I have been waiting for it from 6 months now, yes i agree HYPE, but u got to feel and look fro features too…
well, if u need ipod with a wireless Internet connection, good decent camera and new way of touch screen, try out new iphone!
I am big fan of Apple and Steve Jobs, I don;t mind trying my hand at his innovations, been doing it from MAC days to ipod’s and now Iphone
Well, seemingly all the alternatives mentioned are inequivalent, by means of being unable to integrate it’s features with the seamless technological experience that an iPhone seems to have done very well. It’s like being asked to consider replacing an Apple’s iPod with Microsoft’s Zune.
Furthermore, let’s not to project Indians of having no sense of style by trying to scar the designing elegance of this product by selling an Indianized version,unless we’re talking of design robustness.