Showing posts with label iphone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iphone. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
iPhone 3GS in India with Airtel for Rs 35K
Well iPhone 3GS has landed in India finally. It was launched today on Airtel with a price tag of Rs 35,500 for 16 GB version and the 32 GB variant for Rs 41,500. We haven't heard from any other carriers yet about their plans to introduce the iPhone 3GS.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Vodafone to bring Apple's iPhone to India
India's mobile phone users will be able to switch to Apple's eagerly awaited iPhone later this year, courtesy telecom operator Vodafone.
The British telecom giant Tuesday announced its partnership with Apple to offer iPhone in 10 global telecom markets.
“Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey will be able to purchase the iPhone for use on the Vodafone network,” the company said in a statement.
India is the world's second largest mobile phone market with 261 million users, second only to China. Indian mobile firms added a record 10.2 million subscribers in March. With the expansion of the market, the call tariffs have gone down as low as two cents a minute, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.
Indo-Asian News Service
The British telecom giant Tuesday announced its partnership with Apple to offer iPhone in 10 global telecom markets.
“Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey will be able to purchase the iPhone for use on the Vodafone network,” the company said in a statement.
India is the world's second largest mobile phone market with 261 million users, second only to China. Indian mobile firms added a record 10.2 million subscribers in March. With the expansion of the market, the call tariffs have gone down as low as two cents a minute, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.
Indo-Asian News Service
Monday, February 25, 2008
iPhone Sales Stunted? No, Apple Can Still Hit 10mm
A scary thought for Apple (AAPL) investors, courtesy of Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi: Apple's Steve Jobs may miss his iPhone sales prediction of 10 million units in 2008.
Barron's Eric Savitz summarizes a transcript from a recent Bernstein conference call. Key stats: During the busy December quarter, Apple sold about 180,000 iPhones per week. Annualized, that's 9.3 million phones -- a run-rate that, with no growth, would put 2008 below Jobs' (conservative) public goal. Taking "particularly disappointing" European sales and seasonality into consideration, Sacconaghi projects sales of 7.9 million iPhones for calendar 2008 -- more than 20% below Jobs' goal.
We've been iPhone skeptics in the past, but in this case we think that Sacconaghi is being too pessimistic -- if anything, we think that Apple will be able to boost its December run rate during the course of the year. How? Some combination of the following:
Sell the iPhone in more countries. An Asia rollout, for instance, is already in the works.
Introduce new phones that run on a faster, "3G" wireless Internet service. Again, already planned.
A scaled-down "iPhone nano" with a price point to match, aimed at a broader audience.
Price cuts on current iPhones. (This has worked in the past.)
New software features, like support for third-party apps, that will make the phones more attractive to on-the-fence buyers. This was supposed to be happening this month, but BusinessWeek reports this could be delayed a few weeks.
Sacconaghi expects iPhone revenue to make up a puny 6% of Apple's fiscal 2008 sales, but almost 25% of the company's revenue in fiscal 2012. And he sees iPhones accounting for half of Apple's sales growth in the next four years, and as much as 80% of its profit growth. But we're also skeptical of that claim -- we think analysts continue to underestimate the growth and potential of Apple's core Mac line.
Barron's Eric Savitz summarizes a transcript from a recent Bernstein conference call. Key stats: During the busy December quarter, Apple sold about 180,000 iPhones per week. Annualized, that's 9.3 million phones -- a run-rate that, with no growth, would put 2008 below Jobs' (conservative) public goal. Taking "particularly disappointing" European sales and seasonality into consideration, Sacconaghi projects sales of 7.9 million iPhones for calendar 2008 -- more than 20% below Jobs' goal.
We've been iPhone skeptics in the past, but in this case we think that Sacconaghi is being too pessimistic -- if anything, we think that Apple will be able to boost its December run rate during the course of the year. How? Some combination of the following:
Sell the iPhone in more countries. An Asia rollout, for instance, is already in the works.
Introduce new phones that run on a faster, "3G" wireless Internet service. Again, already planned.
A scaled-down "iPhone nano" with a price point to match, aimed at a broader audience.
Price cuts on current iPhones. (This has worked in the past.)
New software features, like support for third-party apps, that will make the phones more attractive to on-the-fence buyers. This was supposed to be happening this month, but BusinessWeek reports this could be delayed a few weeks.
Sacconaghi expects iPhone revenue to make up a puny 6% of Apple's fiscal 2008 sales, but almost 25% of the company's revenue in fiscal 2012. And he sees iPhones accounting for half of Apple's sales growth in the next four years, and as much as 80% of its profit growth. But we're also skeptical of that claim -- we think analysts continue to underestimate the growth and potential of Apple's core Mac line.
Monday, November 12, 2007
FutureDial Makes It Easy to Transfer Content to iPhone
Mobile device content management solution provider FutureDial announced that it has added the popular Apple iPhone to its large portfolio of supported handsets for the company's software products used by carriers and wireless retailers worldwide. Stores can now transfer their customers' personal contacts, pictures, music, and video to the iPhone quickly and easily with a few clicks of the mouse.
FutureDial's Senior Vice President of Marketing and Product Management, Mr. Shu Gan, commented that "as the iPhone becomes another hugely popular high-end handset, we wanted to make sure that our solution can help carriers and wireless retailers to accommodate the growing demand to easily transfer their customers' phonebook contacts and premium content when they purchase an iPhone. We are now pleased to announce the iPhone as an important addition to our supported handset list as the iPhone rapidly expands into the global marketplace."
Supporting over 1,000 mobile phone models worldwide, FutureDial is the leading provider of handset content transfer and management solutions. Centrally managed over a client-server architecture and easily operated from a PC interface, wireless carriers and wireless retailers use FutureDial's Retail Management Solution(TM)(RMS(TM)) at their Points-of-Sales, service centers and back offices to perform a service that transfers all of a customer's contacts and premium content (messages, ringtones, music, photos, and video) from an old phone to a new phone. In addition, FutureDial's RMS supports backup and restoration of personal data on handsets, which are critical functions when more than 70 million phones are lost, damaged or stolen in Western Europe and North America every year, according to industry research reports.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Google to release cell-phone next year
Google is to release its own mobile platform next year in a bid to drastically shake up the cell-phone industry and provide mobile users with a host of new applications, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The paper Tuesday said that Google planned to make a formal announcement of its plans in about two weeks.
The report said that Google was in talks with cell-phone maker HTC of Taiwan and LG of South Korea to manufacture the phone, which would be tailored to Google software. Google is also seeking partnerships with wireless operators like Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile USA, France Telecom's Orange SA and Hutchison Whampoa's 3 in Britain.
The Google ogibe would make Google applications and services as easily accessible on mobile phones as PCs, so that the company can extend its advertising business to the more than three billion users of cell phones and other wireless devices.
Worldwide, mobile ad spending is expected to reach $1.5 billion this year and grow to $11.3 billion by 2011, according to market researcher Informa Telecoms & Media.
Until now, Google has pursued various strategies to tap this market, adapting Google websites for mobile browsers as well as preloading Google software in handsets like Apple's iPhone.
DPA
The paper Tuesday said that Google planned to make a formal announcement of its plans in about two weeks.
The report said that Google was in talks with cell-phone maker HTC of Taiwan and LG of South Korea to manufacture the phone, which would be tailored to Google software. Google is also seeking partnerships with wireless operators like Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile USA, France Telecom's Orange SA and Hutchison Whampoa's 3 in Britain.
The Google ogibe would make Google applications and services as easily accessible on mobile phones as PCs, so that the company can extend its advertising business to the more than three billion users of cell phones and other wireless devices.
Worldwide, mobile ad spending is expected to reach $1.5 billion this year and grow to $11.3 billion by 2011, according to market researcher Informa Telecoms & Media.
Until now, Google has pursued various strategies to tap this market, adapting Google websites for mobile browsers as well as preloading Google software in handsets like Apple's iPhone.
DPA
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