August 6th, 2008
Airtel has announced the official date for iPhone 3G launch in India as 22nd August. Though we hear that Vodafone would launch the same a week earlier, what would be interesting is the pricing! We heard about
Airtel’s plans for iPhone in India way back in June, but the actual pricing is till undisclosed by both Airtel and Vodafone.
Apparently the activation process was tricky for Airtel due to some conflicts with TRAI regulations (rumored!), They seem to have finally cracked the issue. iPhone in India would run on EDGE untill 3G is rolled out next year.
Update: All iPhone India Updates on iPhone Help
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July 12th, 2008
Yes we are late to write on this, but we sure have some story to tell. iPhone will surely go down in the history books as one of the most hyped gadgets. And when its such a substance with good hype things do get spicy! Here is the showdown of the Apple iPhone 3G launch:
- Almost all iPhone service providers around the world are expecting record sales.
- Apple and Rogers faced downtime: Rogers brings the iPhone to Canada and the mad demand for the iPhone crashed their systems, resulting in a outage. Not surprising? Well then the Apple iTunes Registering system failure left millions of iPhones BRICKED. Many new buyers for the iPhone were sent back with unactivated device as the system was down. Adding to the traffic was the iPhone 1st gen customers upgrading to the iPhone Firmware V2.0.
- The transition form .mac to MobileMe the new seamless data integration service from Apple was delayed. And went online late.
- Many AT&T stores and later the Apple Stores then turned back customers apparently due to stock issues. Though TechCrunch suspected that the iPhone shortage might have been fake, here is the complete picture at iPhoneHelp.
- Not too concerning but some reports of defective LCD (like last time)
- Bad news for Apple that the iPhone 3G reviews have given a THUMBS DOWN to the BATTERY life. read the review
- The AppStore is live and is a Super Hit as expected! More on the AppStore here
- So here we are awaiting the second wave of iPhone 3G launch across the globe, Stay tuned!
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