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After months of speculation, Airtel released the official figures. Airtel will be start selling the iPhone 3GS from March 26th at Airtel stores throughout India.
Airtel iPhone 3GS Prices :
16GB version will cost Rs 35,500
32GB version will cost Rs 41,500
Also once you activate your iPhone 3GS, Airtel will give a 500 MB of free data transfer per month for a year from the date of activation.
Sadly iPhone 3G prices were not affected at all, and it will available at its original price tag only. To be honest Apple doesn’t seem to have learnt anything from the iPhone sales debacle in India, also Airtel seem to having no interest in offering some good offers to attract customers toward 3GS. Same old strategy, I wonder whatever happened to Vodafone, which was other official provider for iPhone 3G. Something cooking there 
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Finally Airtel is gearing up to release iPhone 3GS in India. In a press release, Airtel posted that they have reached an agreement with Apple to release the iPhone 3GS in India. No word on the price yet, but they have activated the Airtel iPhone 3GS URL .
Following is the part of press release from Airtel website :
Bharti Airtel and Apple to Bring iPhone 3GS to India
New Delhi, March 19, 2010 : Bharti Airtel and Apple have reached an agreement to bring iPhone 3GS, the fastest most powerful iPhone yet, to India in the coming months. For information please visit www.airtel.in/iphone3gs. For more information on iPhone, please visit www.apple.com/iphone .
Full press release can be found at following URL. Will be calling up few airtel office, to see if they any updates on prices.
Ok again my sincere apologies for not posting and since I am starting again, let me choose a topic which is being widely discussed among people which is the sorry state of iPhone in India.
Last year when I started this blog, iPhone 3G was about to get launched and everyone(Apple+Airtel+Vodafone) was thinking that even though the prices were absurd, people will go ahead and buy it nonetheless. Which never happened and all the dreams of Apple making iPhone a big thing in India came crashing down. I don’t remember the source but I read somewhere that in one year only 20,000 iPhone 3G were sold by Vodafone and Airtel combined, in the same period grey market sold around 80,000 piece which clearly points out that price factor played a very big role here. Ofcourse lack of proper 3G network didn’t help either.
Apple seem to be taking this debacle on heart as in US they are boasting about selling millions of iPhone’s in weeks and here in India with more then billion people, they were only able to sell only 20k.
Hence my friends iPhone 3GS is nowhere to be seen, no one is talking about it, Apple don’t care, Airtel and Vodafone are least bothered. They are busy selling their 50p per minute plans and fighting with each other. Also our great politicians keep delaying the 3G auction, probably they are not able to get their proper “cut” from companies who are bidding on it.
So, all fans of iPhone in India including me and left wondering what should we do to get a proper iPhone experience like being enjoyed by people in other parts of world. Well friends there is no solution in the current situation, if you want to get iPhone 3GS give a call to your friends, family in US, get it unlocked and use it. Why because whenever 3GS gets launched they will keep the same damn high prices. And for 3G, well we have to wait there seem to be a auction coming next month or so, hopefully it won’t get postponed AGAIN.
Wow its been almost a wild week, I have been trying to get hold of some one who can actually confirm some details on the iPhone 3GS launch date and prices in India. So, here are the details I could gather till now. Please don’t take them as written on a stone, it may vary but its unlikely.
Airtel 3GS Prices
Rs. 32000 For 16GB Version
Rs 39000 For 32GB Version
Vodafone 3GS Prices
Rs. 30500 For 16GB Version
Rs. 37000 For 32GB Version
Launch Date
9th August – Airtel and Probably It will be same for vodafone as well not confirmed though.
iPhone 3G Prices Decreasing?
One thing to note here and I can comment on Vodafone is that, they may decreasing the existing iPhone 3G prices to about Rs 5000-Rs 4000 or so. Probably to clear out their stocks. So, iPhone 3G may land up in a Rs 22-23k price range which is juicy enough to attract people.
Guys and Gals the era of iPhone dominating the Indian market is starting 
. Will add more details as they come.
Source: Vodafone Details – Some “Good” Insider Friend
Airtel Details – @Charan – The dude who was kind enough to share details with us.
So you bought unlocked iPhone and wondering how to get the Airtel GPRS/Edge plan activated on iPhone.
Here are the steps to get the task done:
1. Call up the Airtel Customer Care on 121, ask them about the GPRS plans they are offering, like we are using the Mobile Office plan, which offers unlimited browsing and downloading for 20Rs per day. So, pick up your plan and tell them to activate for you.
2. In iPhone go to Settings >> General >> Network >> EDGE
and enter
APN: Airtelgprs.com
Username: Leave it blank
Password: Leave it blank
Thats it, now just wait to get the plan activated and you are good to go, no more setting are required
Update: After upgrading to iPhone 2.2 firmware i was not able to see the EDGE settings under Network, but GPRS worked fine without even doing any settings at all. So, if you are not able to see the EDGE tab under Settings>>General>>Network don’t worry just get your GPRS activated, it will work fine.
