Comments on: Demystifying iPhone 3GS in India

By: Megha Agarwal

Megha Agarwal — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:40:27 +0000

When is the iphone 3Gs getting here? I;m sick and tired of waiting for it! I don’t want to buy it in the grey market because of the software issues related with it. Does anyone have any idea when it might be released?

By: Neil Mukherjee

Neil Mukherjee — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:16:01 +0000

Nice write-up, Ankur.

Very useful insights from Yogi, Pradeep Rao and Abhilash.

I have been using an iPhone here in US and Canada but it got stolen a few days before my relocation to India.

I wanted to see if if its worth buying a new one when I get back to India but doesn’t look like it owing to its high price, lack of Apple support, limited data plans, lack of wireless infrastructure (3G).

By: RJ

RJ — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:27:46 +0000

The 3gs is better in some ways which Indians might appreciate

1.) Better camera and video
2.) Better battery life ( trust me on this one, especially for the talk , ipod features)
3.) much more stable software ( but then again some indians will just be hacking away at their phones)
4.) faster browsing over wi-fi.

By: ricks

ricks — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:10:11 +0000

ater the success of 3g in india & the marcket condisions in india it is absuletly necessory for apple to make 3gs available as soon as possible in indian market.it will sure-shot make a land mark in india.

HEY APPLE ARE U LISTNING U NEED 3GS for god sake.

By: Abhilash

Abhilash — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:54:35 +0000

When we talk of Apple not looking at realistic pricing or subsidised pricing offered thrugh the service providers, we perhaps do fail to look at the similar pricing of such other smartphones, Nokia N97, N95, Samsung Omnia, Blackberry Bold and Storm, Sony Xperia, HTC Diamond; all sold in a range of 25k to 42K at the time of launch. The apple strategy of being called a premium product maker may have to do with this as well. Some people may be turned off by the idea of buying a premium product itself.
Another thing that has gone against Apple pricing be somewhat nominal is the Dollar-Rupee conversions, at the time of its launch next year rupee was at a pretty low point as well and this year it seems to be worse, hence a couple of Ks added to the original price from last year.
For what it offers in its true form with all the supporting services enabled, very few handsets stand to give an iPhone a good fight, but in a market like India, where govt policies delay services like 3G and consumer mindset of getting things free(hence, a movie/music online store may not succeed), an iPhone turns out only to be a luxury. People are happy purchasing a non-3g/3g device with 3-5 Mp and touchscreen at price points of 15-20K. While these devices mostly come with lesser memory, an Ok UI, and scarce support for applications, they are willing to compromise because they do not see the point in paying extra for some thing that ain’t even working yet.

By: Pradeep Rao

Pradeep Rao — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:03:15 +0000

Sorry, that should have read Rs 500 for 250 MB