iPhone India

Come September and probably iPhone will be available in India. First there was this rumour that HCL and Wipro would be iPhone distributors here, then a couple of weeks ago the news was that Vodafone will bring in iPhone and now it seems even Airtel will be into iPhone too. iPhone deal in India and Australia will be non-exclusive. Now forget about who brings the iPhone in India, the questions I have in my mind are, will people line up outside stores to buy it?,will the iPhone will be locked to the carrier you buy it from?

I think iPhone will do as good as the Nokia N95 did. With a price tag of ~Rs 28,000, there wont be people lining up outside stores. But with two operators bringing in the iPhone I think the prices should be brought down. So will replacing the SIM with some other operator (BSNL,BPL,Idea etc....) work? I know this is already an unlocked version but I dont understand if its unlocked why not just buy it from stores. iPhones in the US required this (check System Requrements) for activation, don't think such will be the case here. If you already have an activated Airtel or Vodafone SIM it should work. But anyway this link shows how to make it work with other SIM's.

I am not an iPhone fanboy but I surely know that its going to bring good competition to other phone biggies like Nokia and SE. With Symbian's upcoming technologies like Screenplay and Freeway expect a touchscreen experience on S60 soon.