Your iPhone or iPod Touch is a Video Game Controller/Joystick with iMO, Gurgaon based startup.
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iPhone sales in India is an interesting case study – phone with 3G in a country without 3G. Even though Airtel spent a good amount of money marketing
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Even though iPhone sales in India is nothing to talk about, Bharti and Vodafone are gearing up to bring the newly launched iPhone 3G S to India by August 2009. iPhone 3G S offers faster data speeds, video recording, compass and is cheaply priced as well (India price is still not know), Apple had issued...
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So how many 3G iPhone have been sold so far? When the phone was launched, only 10 people actually bought the phone (we did questioned the craze over iPhone and whether it’s justified or not). Thanks to iPhone’s buzz, Nokia
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The much-hyped Google phone will reach Indian market by December or early Jan 2009 and is expected to be priced more than the U S price of $179 – as the Indian market does not work on the handset subsidy model (the same issue with iPhone price). HTC is planning to launch the phone in...
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The news is already out that iPhone will be priced for Rs. 31K! 8 GB version of the 3G iPhone will cost Rs 31,000 16 GB version will cost between Rs 36,000-37,000. -  Thanks Lokajit for the tip Though the reports aren’t yet confirmed, it’s quite difficult to digest the fact that iPhone is priced for ~740$!...
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Airtel has announced that it’s launching 3G iPhone on Aug 22nd (reuters). Vodafone was supposed to have 15 day edge over Airtel, but looks like they would rather wait till August 15th for the launch. Any inside story? Update: Vodafone is reportedly launching on Aug 18th. Related: iPhone review, Why Nokia is worried, iPhone Price in India [Thanks Brijesh...
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After 5 hrs of wait at the Michigan Ave store and playing with of for almost one full day this is what I think Good the predictive text system is better than anything I have seen before. It takes care of the issue that there are no keys...
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Started a poll yesterday and within 1 day, 135 readers took the poll and here are the results: Only 5% are willing to pay between 18K-22K (we call them tushan-ies) 40% are dreamers – they still believe that they can get an iPhone for less than 10K. Majority of readers, i.e. 55% will pay somewhere between 10K-18K. The...
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What’s the real price of iPhone in India? While the initial frenzy of $199, i.e. Rs. 8,000/ has settled down, it’s time to look at the price component of iPhone in US. As per iSuppli report: Manufacturing cost of new iPhone is $173 (excluding the cost of developing software, which will be amortized in the long...
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After Vodafone’s iPhone pre-registration, it’s Airtel’s turn. Now that both the operators have joined the iPhone hype, Nokia has all the reasons to get worried and secure it’s turf. Nokia’s market share in India is ~60% and much of that has been achieved thru’ distribution and operator partnership. iPhone’s entry, expected price point (available for...
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Vodafone is allowing subscribers to pre-register for iPhone via it’s website (or if you are an existing customer, sms iphone to 56789) This is a good marketing ploy for the following reasons: During the registration process, Vodafone is collecting your phone number if you aren’t a vodafone customer. Even though iPhone deal is non-exclusive (i.e. even...
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Reliance and Alcatel-Lucent are planning a JV for managed network services to manage RCom’s CDMA and GSM networks. Alcatel-Lucent will hold ~67% stake in the newly formed company and will initially focus on providing services to 12 circles in northern and western India. MTN Bid Vodafone is examining a possible bid for MTN, close on the heels...
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Apple has been at the forefront of innovation. Be it the Mac (with <5% of market share)/ iPod (market leader) or iPhone, Apple has always stayed ahead in the user satisfaction curve and their story is an inspiration to startups. ‘Ten years or so ago Apple Computer was almost bankrupt. Fast forward and...
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