I-Phone, The king of phones is finally here

After all the rumors, all the guessing and all the wishing, the Apple iPhone 3G is finally in India. The state of the art phone, which promises to revolutionize the mobile handset industry is finally available in the biggest mobile market in the world. So all you fellow Indians who are crazy about apple products, CONGRATULATIONS, the wait is finally over.

Now referring to iPhone as just a phone is like calling Cricket just a game in India.
The iPhone is powered by a 400Mhz processor, comes with 64 or 128MB of RAM with a storage capacity of 6-12 GB. Now these are almost the same configuration that you find in a MAC machine few years back.

Now the new iPhone 2.0 has improved tremendously over its previous version 1. The new one has all the features essential for a corporate users. It has remote wipe, push email, faster browsing with EDGE, automatic contact and calendar syncing making it may the new popular gadget for corporate users.
Vodafone and Airtel are launching iPhone in India and the price as quoted by Vodafone is
Rs 31,000 for the 8GB model and 36,000 for the 16GB model.
Now my first reaction after learning about the price was WHAT!

It seemed too high considering that its been sold for $199 in U.S, that's bout 8-9 grands.
But the point to be noted here is that the iPhone is sold for $199 with a 2 year contract with AT&T and there is a contract fee of $321 making it $520 in all.
And if i use the calculator on my laptop, that amounts to somewhere above Rs 22,000.
Makes you think now, doesn't it. But being a true Indian i still think its about a 10grands too much.
As stunning the iPhone is with all its cool features, the phone has enhanced security also.
The new iPhone has implemented security policy enforcement, certificate and indentities with WPA2/802.1X protocols.

Access to corporate networks of companies is also enabled through IPSec VPNs specially with push mail integrated with MS Exchange. And this brings us to very important topic and that is, would iPhone spell doom for BlackBerry??

Stay Tuned...