8GB iPhone to cost Rs 31,000, 16GB for 37,000

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Tanmay Satpathy

Sing Along Samsung
Got my iPhone today from airtel. It's a 16 gb white one. The looks of the phone is a real killer. The browser is the best I have used in a mobile device. Surprisingly faster also from my MotoQ with a vodafone connection. Posting this from the phone :)

I will post more soon.
 

dd_wingrider

In the zone
Got my iPhone today from airtel. It's a 16 gb white one. The looks of the phone is a real killer. The browser is the best I have used in a mobile device. Surprisingly faster also from my MotoQ with a vodafone connection. Posting this from the phone :)

I will post more soon.

Congrats dude, post some pics:)
 

Pat

Beyond Smart
How do I do that? Any links u can provide me with?

A legit iPhone could have been upgraded directly from itunes.But assuming you have an unlocked iPhone 2G, you will need to use the pwnage tool from iphone-devs to upgrade to 2.x. Head over to hackint0sh forum for more details.
 

aryayush

Aspiring Novelist
plus as as phone iphone lacks many features such as sms forwarding
Oh my God, I cannot forward stupid messages to my dimwit friends who spend at least one hour every day reading and replying to useless messages and expect me to do that same. I’m so doomed!

Sure, it’s a genuine drawback (because when you do want to forward the occasional important message, you have to type it all over again because there’s no copy-paste either), but not even nearly important enough for me to even momentarily think about. In fact, it’s proven itself to be a boon for me. Before the iPhone came along, my idiotic friends used to keep bugging me to send them forwards, sending me messages calling me a miser and “too important” or other such nonsense.

Now, they know I cannot forward messages at all, so they don’t expect me too. As a bonus, most of them are showing their anger by not sending me any forwards, so I only have to delete about one or two messages each day now, as opposed to the fifty I used to before. Win-win for me. :D

so its better to get ipod touch and mid range feature phone like n73/k790
(ipod touch+k790=23k)this combo gives more features than getting iphone alone at 31k.
It doesn’t give me the most important feature of the iPhone—EDGE on an iPhone. EDGE on that other phone won’t do and iPod touch doesn’t have EDGE, so an iPhone is my only option anyway.

most important very good 3.2mp cam!
Yeah, because that’s what I need in my pocket at all times, a phone that takes huge pictures.

of course one would have to carry 2 gadgets.but dont forget ipod touch is 30 percent slimmer and lighter than iphone
And that phone with a 3.2 MP camera is twice the thickness of the iPhone, so you aren’t really saving any space. You also have two devices to keep charged, and you have to pause your music and unplug your ears every time you wish to make a call or receive one. And since no phone with a 3.2MP camera comes without music and video capabilities, you’d be wasting those (after having paid for them).

and new ipod touch is expected in september.it is rumoured that it will have hardware controls for music
Yeah, rumours, the most trustworthy source out there.

price cut(16gb for the current price of 8gb).so expect to see 16gb ipod touch at 14k!
Yeah, that might be a possibility, though that would probably mean having to bump the iPhone up a notch too. Maybe they’ll just drop the 8GB model of the iPod touch and keep only the 16GB and 32GB variants at the lowered prices. Then they won’t have to bump up the iPhone. :)
 

MasterMinds

hell boy
guys ipod screen and interface is the only thing which is the plus point in the phone and yes the msg frwding inability is not a problem to me either.....!!!!
 

eggman

I have Yolks not Brains!
Oh my God, I cannot forward stupid messages to my dimwit friends who spend at least one hour every day reading and replying to useless messages and expect me to do that same. I’m so doomed!

Sure, it’s a genuine drawback (because when you do want to forward the occasional important message, you have to type it all over again because there’s no copy-paste either), but not even nearly important enough for me to even momentarily think about. In fact, it’s proven itself to be a boon for me. Before the iPhone came along, my idiotic friends used to keep bugging me to send them forwards, sending me messages calling me a miser and “too important” or other such nonsense.

Now, they know I cannot forward messages at all, so they don’t expect me too. As a bonus, most of them are showing their anger by not sending me any forwards, so I only have to delete about one or two messages each day now, as opposed to the fifty I used to before. Win-win for me. :D

It doesn’t give me the most important feature of the iPhone—EDGE on an iPhone. EDGE on that other phone won’t do and iPod touch doesn’t have EDGE, so an iPhone is my only option anyway.

Genius!!! :)) :)).......You know , my friends waste hours a day listening songs on phone(in class, backbenchers!!!), and sometimes when I have a good song on my cell(which they don't have) I usually transfer the song from my cell to their!!! But with iPhone I won't have to do that, since I can't do that,and I will end up saving their precious time by robbing them of a song ! Not to mention I won't be able to see my friend's surprise birthday pics on my big iPhone screen as with my great 2MP camera I will be embarrassed to shoot indoors and while my friends will shoot them with their 5MP-less-expensive-flash-enabled phone, they won't transfer the pics to mine in anger(or otherwise)!!!!:)) Yeah I know I know, I should have had a handheld camera and a digital camera in my pockets all the time, but my belt is a bit loose so I couldn't carry all the load!!!

Wow...I think I should get an iPhone!!
 

aryayush

Aspiring Novelist
Genius!!! :)) :)).......You know , my friends waste hours a day listening songs on phone(in class, backbenchers!!!), and sometimes when I have a good song on my cell(which they don't have) I usually transfer the song from my cell to their!!! But with iPhone I won't have to do that, since I can't do that,and I will end up saving their precious time by robbing them of a song ! Not to mention I won't be able to see my friend's surprise birthday pics on my big iPhone screen as with my great 2MP camera I will be embarrassed to shoot indoors and while my friends will shoot them with their 5MP-less-expensive-flash-enabled phone, they won't transfer the pics to mine in anger(or otherwise)!!!!:)) Yeah I know I know, I should have had a handheld camera and a digital camera in my pockets all the time, but my belt is a bit loose so I couldn't carry all the load!!!

Wow...I think I should get an iPhone!!
Unless you work for Aaj Tak, I really don’t see why you would need to have a camera on your person all the time. Surely you won’t regret having missed that sexy billboard you just saw and couldn’t capture on your iPhone for more than five minutes. As for people who do need to have a camera with them at any given time of the day, I assure you that no cellphone camera, no matter how many megapixels it supports, is going to suffice for them and they carry a dedicated camera anyway.

As for your not being able to share pictures with your friend, no camera in the world ships with built-in Bluetooth that allows you to share pictures and videos with others. How come no one has been complaining about that? This was just an observation that struck me on reading your post; it should not be taken to mean that I don’t think Bluetooth file sharing is a good feature and shouldn’t be implemented on the iPhone.

Both SMS forwarding and Bluetooth file sharing are good features and it’s a shame the iPhone lacks them. I did not disagree with that. I only threw in a scenario specific to me where not having the ability to forward texts has turned out to be exceedingly useful, whilst also mentioning how the feature could be useful sometimes. My point was that while the Multi-touch interface and Internet and multimedia capabilities of the iPhone are strong points in favour of it, the lack of SMS forwarding and Bluetooth file sharing are weak points against. Strong points against the iPhone would be its price and, at least in my case, voice dialing.

Trying to clearly understand what someone is saying before loading up the sarcasm rifle might not be a bad idea. It tends to have a particularly high potential of backfiring.
 

gxsaurav

You gave been GXified
Unless you work for Aaj Tak, I really don’t see why you would need to have a camera on your person all the time

A person likes to capture memories. Memories like a surprise birthday party, the first walk of your child don't come after informing you. You can't be prepared for it. Camera in a mobile phone started as a quick way to take snaps anywhere but with the advancement in technology these cameras are very sophisticated today. I don't even have a digital camera in Delhi & just use ky K750i to take snaps of everything right from the Night Outs in Home to client's office.

. Surely you won’t regret having missed that sexy billboard you just saw and couldn’t capture on your iPhone for more than five minutes.

Many people do regret.

As for people who do need to have a camera with them at any given time of the day, I assure you that no cellphone camera, no matter how many megapixels it supports, is going to suffice for them and they carry a dedicated camera anyway.

That's the thing. Uber quality isn't always required but a quick way to capture a snap is required. This is why Mobile phone cameras became such a huge success.

As for your not being able to share pictures with your friend, no camera in the world ships with built-in Bluetooth that allows you to share pictures and videos with others.

Again, it's not a camera. It is am Mobile phone which u carry with you always & need always be connected. Lack of Bluetooth in digicam is indeed a flaw & i m complaining too but when it is a phone, I need file transfer. The logic that "Those who need a camera all the time should carry a heavy 8 mega pixel digital camera" is really stupid.


I only threw in a scenario specific to me where not having the ability to forward texts has turned out to be exceedingly useful

U don't need it. We do. Nokia N82/N79 has all these at less prise then iPhone which makes Nokia phones better buy then iPhone.

the Multi-touch interface and Internet and multimedia capabilities of the iPhone are strong points in favour of it,

You want me to pay 31k for internet browsing at any time & to watch my multimedia all the time?? I would rather buy a 36K Laptop which does all this on a big screen & more even when I am traveling inside the metro.
 

goobimama

 Macboy
Are we still on with this again? I thought we had long since concluded that this was a crap phone, and all those who bought it are in misery and are just trying to save face. As for me I've been beating my brains as to why, oh why, did I have to go buy an iMac even after knowing how crappy OS X on the iBook was. Oh well, at least I can secretly run Vista on it via bootcamp.

Here's hoping for Android on iPhone. :)
 

aryayush

Aspiring Novelist
That's the thing. Uber quality isn't always required but a quick way to capture a snap is required. This is why Mobile phone cameras became such a huge success.



Again, it's not a camera. It is am Mobile phone which u carry with you always & need always be connected. Lack of Bluetooth in digicam is indeed a flaw & i m complaining too but when it is a phone, I need file transfer. The logic that "Those who need a camera all the time should carry a heavy 8 mega pixel digital camera" is really stupid.
I know you don’t realise it* but you’re actually just agreeing with what I said. The iPhone’s camera does a darned fine job when it comes to taking quick and dirty pictures—launch it, press one key and it takes a pretty decent snap (for a mobile phone). More megapixels are required to take larger pictures, not better. And no mobile phone camera can take pictures with quality worthy of being framed—what’s the point of all those megapixels then which add to the bulk of the phone and slow down the camera’s operation?

People who need good quality pictures all the time do need to “carry a heavy 8 mega pixel digital camera” around. For everyone else, the iPhone camera does an OK job. Sure, it could be made even better but I’m glad that’s not Apple’s priority. It will be upgraded when everything else is working exactly as it should.


*… because you’re slow…
 

gauravsuneja

macaddict
magic pad can do copy and paste and there is i video recording software which can use mms feature and do video recording of corse its third party .
iphone ke baare mein kahbardaar kuch kharaab kaha toh .though its costly still i ma trying hard to procure it from sum1 from usa
 

gxsaurav

You gave been GXified
The iPhone’s camera does a darned fine job when it comes to taking quick and dirty pictures—launch it, press one key and it takes a pretty decent snap (for a mobile phone).

No. At 19k a Nokia N82 takes better pics with better focus, color reproduction etc compared to iPhone. iPhone is bad when taking pics in dark, like on an evening at the street, while Nokia N82 gives better quality at 19k only. This is why iPhone is crap & it sux.

More megapixels are required to take larger pictures, not better. And no mobile phone camera can take pictures with quality worthy of being framed—what’s the point of all those megapixels then which add to the bulk of the phone and slow down the camera’s operation?

Ever tried photo retouching in Photshop??? Ever tried to find "where MP matters?" Seriously, go read some books on Photography & U will know that MP does matters but depends on where it is being used. For home use 3.2 MP is enough as people will sharpen, reduced noise & dimension of the image which will make it more sharp then real one.

People who need good quality pictures all the time do need to “carry a heavy 8 mega pixel digital camera” around.

Yes, they can buy SE C905 :D.

No, cos for them Nokia N82 gives good enough quality while still being lite & easy to use. Only professional people need to carry a digicam everywhere & everytime.
For everyone else, the iPhone camera does an OK job.

Maybe for you who doesn't understand what a photo means.

It will be upgraded when everything else is working exactly as it should.

Yeah :D. They tried to defeat Exchange with MobileMe & look what happened, 3 outages in 1 month
 
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