Vodafone Releasing Iphone in India Conformed

Vodafone's just got a tiny, minor, insignificant announcement to make this morning: it's signed with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten markets, including Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy (so much for Telecom Italia), India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey. Expect the phone later this year -- that's all we know for now. Score one (or ten?) for Voda.

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Vodafone News Release

Engadget Link

Yes .. Me Too Saw this news in Hindustan Times Business Yesterday !

Yep. Seems Rediff was right after all.

Did they say anything about the price???

^^^ Nothing at all, but now as the provider is fixed, i think it will be done soon enough

i hope they don't price it like a gold bar

Well, since the rumours about the carrier turned out to be true, most probably the price was rightly reported too.

^^ And what was that price...??

^^28k

thats way too too high :-(

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iMav said:
i hope they don't price it like a gold bar

Well, your hope will not be true......

28K?????

Look at the bright side, if it's officially available in India, that means the unofficial [if you get my drift] price is going to lower

Umm… what? That didn't make any sense to me. Care to explain?

^^ he means that the gray market iPhone in india will cost less, as now they don't have to import it they can hack the ones available here itself

^^hehe. with the 2nd gen iphone right on the horizon, I will try to get the iphone for some 15k

and get it legal over my vada-fone connection

Weren't you the one of those people who were railing against the iPhone? (I might be wrong.)

dude. I am against the 28k iphone. If it is priced at 15k, well I will give it a try coz that would be the best price that one can spend on this phone. anything higher, there are better alternates.

and not intersted in starting another war.

And what makes you think I am? Stop this stereotyping, all of you. I never initiate wars out here, i.e. if you ignore the distant past.

Ok which would it be, 8 GB or 16 GB. U there! Steve! We need more storage. Are you going to do it or are you going to make us wait.

desiibond said:
dude. I am against the 28k iphone. If it is priced at 15k, well I will give it a try coz that would be the best price that one can spend on this phone. anything higher, there are better alternates.

and not intersted in starting another war.

The same case is with me....I really like that iPhone but not the price......

aryayush said:
And what makes you think I am? Stop this stereotyping, all of you. I never initiate wars out here, i.e. if you ignore the distant past.

huh. not again. Stop scratching my shoulder

Awesome news... So its finally confirmed

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The Expected price of I phone 8GB is 30k guys .

Blackfire said:
The Expected price of I phone 8GB is 30k guys .

Mind telling the source?

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costly...

why they keep price so high??

cost???

SingTel ropes iPhone distro in Singapore, India, Australia, and Philippines

Singapore Telecommunications (aka SingTel) announced that it's secured agreements to distribute the iPhone in Singapore (on SingTel Mobile) and its partly-owned subsidiaries in Australia (on Optus), India (on Bharti Group), and the Philippines (on Globe Telecom). Vodafone's also distributing the iPhone in India and Australia though, so we'll have to wait until later this year to find out who gets to shoot first.

So, it seems airtel will also be releasing iphones in india

Source : Engadget

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dd_wingrider said:
SingTel ropes iPhone distro in Singapore, India, Australia, and Philippines

So, it seems airtel will also be releasing iphones in india

Source : Engadget

Airtel expected to release it by December 2008

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i 100% sure they will be locked...to vodafone for sure.... but they sya "locked things are always unlocked"

It will be locked to both Vodafone and Airtel.