Well, then it really is bye bye iPhone for you. I’m sorry.
iPhone 3G Price for India Confirmed: Rs. 31,000 for 8GB!
by Milind Alvares
August 19, 2008
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The 8GB iPhone’s price has been officially confirmed at Rs. 31,000 by the Imagine Store here in Goa, India. The 16GB version will cost you Rs. 37,000. The prices are final and bookings are now open, but they warn that there will be very limited stocks. This store will sell it only with Vodafone, but it is highly unlikely that the other telecom that brings the iPhone to India, Airtel, would have a different price.
So this finally answers the one question I’ve heard
about seven thousand times in the past few weeks, “how much will the iPhone cost?” At the WWDC 2008 (which, for you non-Apple folk, stands for Worldwide Developers’ Conference), Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that the price for the iPhone 3G across all countries would be either around $199 or less than that. This sent ripples across the globe and within minutes half the world was planning on buying one for themselves. However, the iPhone comes with a carrier lock-in for a period of at least two years and a minimum rental plan that puts its total cost of ownership well over $1500, at least in the US. In the UK and other places, carriers were even giving the phone
free with their even more costly rental plans.
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