Call it sheer competition from rivals or to the growing demand for the smartphones, Apple’s iPhone, the pioneer in touch screen smartphone has finally launched its much awaited predecessor iPhone 4 in India, after its initial launch in US a year ago.
With Indian mobile market already flooded with smartphone makers from Samsung, LG, HTC, Blackberry and Nokia, the entry of iPhone will surely intensify the already crowded market.
Telecom Analysts believe that India is touted as the second largest market for smartphones and with the implementation of new technologies like 3G, will further boost the sales of iPhone in India — the darling of millions worldwide.
As of now, Google’s Android seems to be the market leader with already 6 out of 10 smartphones being powered by Android Operating System, one has to wait and watch how Microsoft—Nokia combine, who promise to bring the best of hardware capabilities, courtesy Nokia, and Microsoft which is already making waves for its Windows 7 Mobile OS compete against giants like Apple and Google. However, the only way Microsoft can compete against Apple is to churn out millions of Addons, probably for free and mimic the Apple iStore concept to stay in the race.
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Apple has tied up with India’s most trusted air carrier — Airtel to launch its iPhone 4 in India and is priced between Rs. 34,500 with a memory capacity of 16 GB and Rs. 40,990 with 32 GB capacity and boasts of new exciting features like Facetime for VideoChat, Retina Display and five mega pixel rear camera with LED flash capable of HD recording.
“The iPhone 4 boasts a higher-quality screen and longer battery life than the previous model” said Airtel CEO, PD Sharma who heads the West Bengal and Orissa Operations in India and added, “With the high number of mobile users, smartphone market will grow in the country.”
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