India, one of Asia’s fastest-growing telecom markets. Between 2006 and 2007, sales of smartphones within the nation grew an estimated 31.4 percent. The data-centric convergence device segment exploded at 89 percent, while voice-centric devices shot up by 26.3 percent. As of July 2008, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India reported total wireless subscribers of about [...]

Well, if you use your mobile phone just to make calls, send text messages or click photographs — the iPhone 3G is not for you.But in case you are a tech freak who loves tinkering with gadgets, this Apple smartphone might be your dream come true. Downloadable GPS, games, AIM, Facebook on the go and [...]

The country’s largest telecom operator, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), will introduce Apple’s iPhone for its subscribers across the country by December along with the launch of the third generation network, according to SK Chakravarty, chief general manager of Calcutta Telephones. “On September 30, we will have a meeting of the circle heads where we [...]

Apple, the US consumer electronics and software company, is close to opening its iTune Store in India. iTune Store, the world’s most popular online entertainment store, offers songs, movies, TV shows, podcasts, audiobooks and iPod games.
Apple will open iTune Store “immediately” to enable users buy legitimate entertainment content for their iPods, touch iPods, Mac PCs [...]

Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Essar will on Friday launch Apple’s third-generation (3G) iPhone in India, a nation with an estimated population of 1.13 billion, where one in five people owns a mobile phone.
Two models will be up for grabs: one with 8GB memory (in black colour) and another 16 GB (white and black) for Rs [...]

This is the week of the geeks, as the Apple iPhone finally was officially launched in India amidst fanfare. Both the official operators for the phone Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Essar launched the phone at midnight across eight cities.
But the launch was a far cry from that witnessed in international markets where iPhone lovers had [...]

Global mobile phone majors Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and others are offering a slew of products including touchscreen and music capable handsets in India to counter the might of Apple’s iPhone, which is expected to hit the markets in September.
Handset vendors in the world’s fastest growing mobile phone market have worked out the strategies, to [...]

The much-awaited 3G iPhone is likely to cost a fortune in India, unlike in global markets, with Indian service providers unlikely to subsidise the gadget, like AT&T in the US and O2 in Germany.
Moreover, a fear of unlocking (cracking) and a likely flooding of counterfeit iPhones in the market are also likely to keep Bharti [...]

Vodafone and Airtel started pre-registering customers for the iPhone 3G this week, and ever since, offices and blogs have been abuzz with discussions on what Apple’s much-awaited product will be priced at.
Many think it will be just a shade over Rs 8,000 — the rupee equivalent of the price in the US, which is $199. [...]

Here comes the news that would surely give all the iPhone enthusiasts huge adrenaline rush. Yeah, as the headlines suggest, Vodafone has, today, opened up registrations for the brand new iPhone 3G.
Although the phone hasn’t been officially launched in India as yet nor has any date been officially announced, the very fact [...]