iPhone India: Vodafone will Launch iPhone on 21st of August 2008 Priced around Rs.24,000

As the launch date comes closer we made a few calls to know if the launch is on time i.e. 22nd of August and found something you will certainly be interested in.

Vodafone is taking an aggressive approach to the launch and they want to be the 1st to launch iPhone in India. So, if Aritel is launching iPhone on 22nd of August, iPhone will be available at Vodafone stores on 21st of Aug.

The company also wants to claim the cheapest iPhone in the country. So, iPhones coming out of Vodafone will be cheaper than its competitors, namely Airtel. Price for non-vodafone users will be around 35k's and for existing users who have preregistered with Vodafone, it will cost them around Rs.24k.

The bottom line is and I quote "No matter what we will be cheaper than our competitors."

That's not all, we have more!!

Initially iPhone will come only with 2G service and not 3G. 3G services on Vodafone will start from October onwards. 2G services will include GPS and Maps for 8 Indian cities including metro cities. Hyderabad is one of the 8 cities on GPS maps.

Vodafone will start calling the users who pre-registered for iPhone two days before the launch to discuss the details in terms of iPhone price and its features and once the user confirms the purchase, iPhone will be delivered at the day of launch. So, Ideally we should start receiving calls from tomorrow onwards. i.e 19th of August.



In addition to this information, Apple sent a mass e-mail to its registered users confirming the 22nd Aug as the launching date in India.

Click here to see what Apple India has in store for us. http://www.apple.co.in/iphone/buy/