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iPhone in US are a passe for us now. Time is to focus on iPhone retailing in Hong Kong and australia, where i believe carriers may not lock the iPhone.

Still along way to go for India. Can anyone tell me if any GSM operators in India have implemented simlock in any of their phones, apart from kale jamoons that is.
 
well if its avl without a contract in US for 199, i'd be crying here :( i purchased 8gigger in mar for 399....dont think it'll launch in india for 8-9k tho....blackberry curve is 270$ in US, but retails for 24-25k here....

even then, this is a frigging awesome value for the works.....
 
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wait a min...........some more masala........this is from gizmodo......

Update: Just bought an iPhone? Listen up: "Customers who purchased a 2.5G iPhone on or after May 27 and want to swap it out for a new iPhone will be able to do so without incurring an additional handset charge for the new device. They will of course need to turn in their 2.5G iPhone." And for the rest of you, AT&T says there's no way to buy it without agreeing to a contract. So sorry.
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even engadget gives the same update.....
 
Bharti Airtel and Apple to Bring iPhone 3G to India​

NEW DELHI and SAN FRANCISCO—June 9, 2008—Bharti Airtel and Apple® today announced that they will be bringing the highly anticipated iPhone™ 3G to customers in India later this year. iPhone 3G combines all the revolutionary features of iPhone with 3G networking that is twice as fast* as the first generation iPhone, built-in GPS for expanded location based mobile services, and iPhone 2.0 software which includes support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and runs the hundreds of third party applications already built with the recently released iPhone SDK.

“We are delighted with the opportunity to bring the innovative iPhone 3G to India,” said Manoj Kohli, president and CEO, Bharti Airtel. “As India’s leading telecom operator, Bharti Airtel has always stood for innovation and customer delight. With our reach across the country and iPhone’s revolutionary features, we have a valuable proposition for our customers in India.”

“We are thrilled to be working with Bharti Airtel, India’s leading integrated telecom company, to bring iPhone 3G to millions of mobile customers in India,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s COO. “We can’t wait to get this revolutionary product in the hands of even more people around the world.”

Airtel customers will be able to purchase iPhone 3G at Airtel Relationship Centers. Details of pricing and availability will be announced at a later date.

*Based on 3G and EDGE testing. Actual speeds vary by site conditions.

Bharti Airtel Limited, a group company of Bharti Enterprises, is India’s leading integrated telecom services provider with an aggregate of 66.69 million customers as of end of April 2008, consisting of 64.37 million mobile customers. Bharti Airtel has been rated among the best performing companies in the world in the BusinessWeek IT 100 list 2007.

Bharti Airtel is structured into three strategic business units—Mobile services, Telemedia services and Enterprise services. The mobile business provides mobile and fixed wireless services using GSM technology across 23 telecom circles. The Telemedia business provides broadband and telephone services in 94 cities and is foraying into the IPTV and DTH segments. The Enterprise business provides end-to-end telecom solutions to corporate customers and national and international long distance services to carriers. All these services are provided under the Airtel brand. Airtel’s high-speed optic fibre network currently spans over 73,787 kms covering all the major cities in the country. The company has two international landing stations in Chennai that connect two submarine cable systems - i2i to Singapore and SEA-ME-WE-4 to Europe. For more information, visit ::Airtel::Mobile Services Home Phone Broadband Data Cards Internet Wireless Internet Voice Office.

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone.
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So I guess its Airtel which is goin to Launch 3G First in India and hence bringing iPhone 3G...:ohyeah::ohyeah:
 
Bummer! It ain't as sweet as it sounds folks

From AT&T:

* With a two-year contract, the price of an 8GB iPhone 3G will be $199; the 16GB model will be priced at $299.

* Unlimited iPhone 3G data plans for consumers will be available for $30 a month, in addition to voice plans starting at $39.99 a month.

* Unlimited 3G data plans for business users will be available for $45 a month, in addition to a voice plan.

UPDATE: And you will be required to activate your phone at the store. From AT&T spokeswoman Sarah Andreani:

When customers purchase their new 3G iPhone, customers will activate the device in the retail store. This is the traditional wireless activation model that our customers are very familiar with. In-store activation should take just a few minutes and customers will be able to leave with their iPhone up and running. This will be especially helpful if any questions or issues arise during activation.

UPDATE: And the only place you'll be able to buy the phone is in a physical AT&T or Apple store. The 3G iPhone will not be sold on either att.com or apple.com.
 
Apple has signed multi-year agreements with carriers authorizing them to distribute and provide network services for iPhones in over 70 countries. These agreements are generally not exclusive with a specific carrier, except in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Ireland, and certain other countries. Under the vast majority of these agreements, Apple will not receive follow-on revenue generating payments from carriers for the new iPhone 3G beyond the purchase of the device by carriers or a commission on sales of the device by Apple. Apple will continue to receive payments from cellular network providers related to first-generation iPhones as long as they remain active on authorized networks.
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Apple will not recieve follow on revenue from its new iPhone partners | 9 to 5 Mac
 
the iPhone 2.0 firmware with all the MS Exchange support, support for iWork and ActiveSyc (over the air sync for mails, calendars...) along with some of the GPS centric apps that were showcased, is a big sign of things to come.. as we have already seen with the jailbroken apps, the scope is Tremendous..!!

this device, esp at this price, is going to change the dynamics of the entire mobile phone industry worldwide..

it will do what iPod did to the music market.. much better in fact..

I can't even begin to imagine how nokias, RIMs and the sonys of the world are going to conuter this ..

Steve Jobs - Bloody Brlliant mate :)
 
$199 is a damn good price for the 8GB version, although i pretty much expect it to be priced at 16k in india

When customers purchase their new 3G iPhone, customers will activate the device in the retail store
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hmmm whats to stop someone to buy the iPhone, pay the $199 and then run away? :P
 
Apple announces 3G iPhone

$199, GPS and same lame camera

Apple has finally launched its 3G iPhone and the new toy will be twice as fast for half of price. It will sell for $199 with AT&T's two-year contract and it will be available in July 11th. The white or black 16GB will launch a bit later at $299 with the same contract.

3G will definitely speed up browsing but it will set your battery life back. In 3G mode the talk time sinks to 5 hours while with the new battery you can expect 10 hours in 2G mode which you can watch up to 7 hours video, listen to 24 hours audio or surf up to 5 to 6 hours o the high speed lane. Beware that these numbers are best-case scenario and apple didn’t said the capacity of its battery.

The new device is thinner and the whole 2 grams lighter. It is 4.5 inch (115.5mm) height, 2.4 inches (62.1mm) width, 0.48 inch (12.3mm) depth and it weighs 4.7 ounces or 133 grams.

The old iPhone was 115 x 61 x 11.6 mm, which means that only the width actually changed and the phone got even thinner, and 2 grams lighter. The display stays the same but you don’t need anything better than the current one. It is still 3.5 inch diagonal widescreen with multi touch technology with 480x320 pixel resolution with 163 ppi.

Phone 3G also gets GPS support and 3.5mm standard headphones jack which will definitely widen the choice of available headphones and potentially even headsets.

The iPhone 3G will simultaneously launch in 22 countries on July 11 including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and of course the United States.

The phone comes in black with 8GB and 16GB memory and as 16GB as the white one. Apple also decided to put SIM ejector tool and if you every had an iPhone you would know how useful this small thing might be.

The camera stays at 2Mpixel and it doesn’t look that there will be video support, which is very lame for 2008/2009 phone. Now French capital named girl needs to buy another small video camera with night vision, and we hoped that she should be happy with iPhone 3G. Steve jobs what have you done, now she will be sad.

The iPhone 3G supports many languages including English, French, German, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Russian, and Polish.

If you were not satisfied with international keyboard and dictionary support the new 3G iPhone will have support for English (U.S.), English (UK), French (France), French (Canada), German, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Korean (no dictionary), Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Russian, and Polish.

Now that is a good start but many countries will still miss its letters and dictionaries. App store is the Apple’s rip off from a famous Installer application and App store will make apple even ritcher but end users will get more third party programs for their phone.

The iPhone brings many business features such as exchange support, better calendar synchronisation and many other tools to try to go after Blackberry which we still don’t think it will happen. iPhone is a nice toy but not a serious emailing device, we had blackberry like device and iPhone and we can tell.

GPS brings a navigation to an iPhone and can now tell you the real directions via GPS, via Wi-FI or cell tower location technology. Maps on iPhone shows you live traffic information, indicating traffic speed along your route in easy-to-read green, red, and yellow highlights.

At the same time Apple warns that Maps, directions, and location information depend on data collected by third parties, and by that we believe they mean Google.

So except lame camera without flash or video support we think Apple did quite good job with the new one. Another lame one is that it doesn’t relay looks much different and many people won’t notice if you have fatter or thinner one, unless you get the white one
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Fudzilla - Apple announces 3G iPhone
 


Apple Announces Second Generation iPhone 3G, 2.0 Software, iTunes App Store



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iPhone 3G 16GB in white (Source: Apple)

Apple swings for the fences, again.

When it comes to announcing a new product, Apple knows how to set the stage and get people excited right up until the official announcement. Nowhere was this more obvious than with the launch of the original iPhone. The fervor surrounding the mobile handset didn't settle down when the first generation iPhone was announced in early January 2007 -- it continued until the eventual release of the phone in June of that year.

Speculation on the follow-up, the "3G iPhone", has been building ever since the first generation model was revealed -- but things really started getting a bit uproarious over the past few months. Case makers began leaking dimensions for the upcoming phone, supposed "leaked" pictures of the phone were drooled over by nearly ever gadget sight on the web, and leaked firmware was picked over with a fine-tooth comb.

Apple today finally announced its next generation crowd pleaser. Apple is looking to address the shortcoming of its first effort this time around and further expand its popularity (Jobs previously stated that he wants 10 million iPhones sold within the first 18 months – it already surpassed the 6 million mark during its first year).

First things firsts – the worse kept secret about the second generation iPhone is its 3G capabilities. The first gen model was widely criticized for its slow EDGE cellular broadband capabilities. Apple is now matching the competition with the iPhone 3G. The iPhone 3G has tapered look with thinner edges, solid metal buttons, a black plastic backing, flush headphone jack [thank goodness], and vastly improved audio.

The faster cellular connectivity of the iPhone 3G allow for download speeds nearly as quick as WiFi and speeds that are 2.5 times as fast as EDGE. Despite the thinner size, the iPhone 3G also sports better battery life than its predecessor. The iPhone 3G now supports 2G talk time of 10 hours, 3G talk time of 5 hours, 7 hours of video, 24 hours of audio, and 5-6 hours of high-speed web browsing.

Another big addition is fully integrated GPS tracking. IPhone 3G users can now get positioning information from WiFi, cell towers, and now the hardware GPS.

Apple also confirmed early speculation that price breaks would be in store for the new lineup of iPhones. The Cupertino, California-based company confirmed today that the new 8GB iPhone will be priced at $199 with a new two-year contract when it launches July 11, while the 16GB iPhone (which will be available in white at a later date) will set you back $299 under the same terms.

The iPhone 3G will be rolled out in 22 countries on July 11 (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the U.S.).

Apple first announced the Software Developer Kit (SDK) for the iPhone in early March along with the 2.0 firmware update. The SDK allows third-party manufacturers to create their own applications for the iPhone and iPod touch and upload them to the new iTunes App Store.

Developers are charged a $99 fee to publish each application to the iTunes App Store -- Apple also takes a 30% cut of the purchase price for each application sold to customers to cover hosting and processing fees. For generous developers that provide their apps for free on the iTunes App Store, the aforementioned hosting and processing fees are dropped.

Jobs noted that applications that are less than 10MB in size will be downloadable through the cell network – applications larger than 10MB will have to be downloaded through a WiFi connection of through the desktop iTunes application. Automatic updates for applications will also be pushed through to the device.

A number of applications were on display that were developed using the SDK including SEGA’s Super Monkey Ball (which will be available for $9.99 from the iTunes App Store), an integrated eBay tool complete with bidding and search, and a news reader provided for free by the Associated Press. The latter tool will send local news to you based on your location, save images, video, and text for offline viewing, and even allow you submit news as it happens.

The 2.0 software -- which is available not only for the iPhone 3G, but also to the original iPhone and iPod touch -- adds a number of new features to make the devices more corporate friendly. These include push email/calendar/contacts between an iPhone/Mac/PC via MobileMe, auto-discovery, global address lookup, Cisco IPsec VPN, Certificates and Identities, WPA2/802.11x, and remote wipe.

Other features include contacts search, bulk delete/move for emails, a new scientific calculator, and the ability to save images to the Photo Library. Microsoft PowerPoint documents are now supported as well.

IPhone users will receive the 2.0 software update for free, while iPod touch users will have to pay $9.99. The update will be available next month.
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DailyTech - Apple Announces Second Generation iPhone 3G, 2.0 Software, iTunes App Store
 
Bluetooth 2.0



This version, specified on November 10, 2004, is backward-compatible with 1.1. The main enhancement is the introduction of an Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) of 3.0 Mbit/s for both data (ACL) and voice (eSCO) packets.
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^So, the answer is No! It can be used. :)
 
irtel seems ot be selling the treo and HTC touch phones with 2 year simlock. However, there seem to be no contractual obligation except for using an airtel simcard.

Lets hope the USD 199 price band is not due to the ATT subsidy, else Indian subscribers might end up paying more than Rs. 16k for the phone.
 
Apple today announced its plan to launch the highly awaited iPhone 3G in India. Apple has partnered with Bharti Airtel for bringing the iPhone 3G to its customers in India later this year. iPhone 3G will have all the revolutionary features of iPhone with 3G networking that is apparently twice as fast as the first generation iPhone.

The handset also features built-in GPS for expanded location based mobile services, and iPhone 2.0 software which includes support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and runs the hundreds of third party applications already built with the recently released iPhone SDK.

Manoj Kohli, president and CEO, Bharti Airtel, said “We are delighted with the opportunity to bring the innovative iPhone 3G to India.â€

He added “As India’s leading telecom operator, Bharti Airtel has always stood for innovation and customer delight. With our reach across the country and iPhone’s revolutionary features, we have a valuable proposition for our customers in India.â€

“We are thrilled to be working with Bharti Airtel, India’s leading integrated telecom company, to bring iPhone 3G to millions of mobile customers in India,†said Tim Cook, Apple’s COO. “We can’t wait to get this revolutionary product in the hands of even more people around the world.â€

The new iPhone in India will be available at Airtel Relationship Centers. Details of pricing and availability are expected to be announced soon.

Though it’s good news that Apple will launch its most updated version of iPhone in India and not the older one but the phone’s 3G features will be of little use here in India as the country still does not have 3G services.
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October end it will launched as per report on news channel

Apple to Launch iPhone 3G in India Via Airtel - TechShout
 
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