I have been anxiously waiting for Vodafone to announce the pricing for Apple’s iPhone 3G in India. And the prices for the 8GB and 16GB models of Apple iPhone 3G were announced by Vodafone India today.
This is the message that I received from Vodafone 
as I had registered with them for more details on the iPhone and the offers.
Your wait is about to end! iPhone 3G arrives on August 22. 8GB model is for Rs. 31,000 and 16 GB for Rs. 36,100. To get your iPhone before others, visit one of the select Vodafone stores and confirm your booking by paying Rs. 10,000 on August 20 or 21. You’ll get an appointment to collect your iPhone after paying the balance amount. For list of the select Vodafone stores, go to www.vodafone.in/iPhone. Save this SMS—you need to show it at the Vodafone store.
The pricing is a bit high, considering the options and features that the iPhone comes with. Adopting a wait-and-watch approach should work fine. The prices are expected to come down after the initial euphoria settles down. On another note, a combination of Apple iPod (Nano / Touch) and a high-end mobile (from Nokia, Sony Ericsson, or HTC) should cost less than the 8GB iPhone model. The pricing should be a big relief to the competition for Apple iPhone for some time in India.
Filed under: Blog, Business, Rants, Technology , 16 GB, 8GB, Apple iPhone 3G, HTC, Iphone Pricing in India, iPod, Nano, Nokia, SMS, Sony Ericsson, Touch, Vodafone India
The first milestone for my blog! The blog has received more than 5000 hits. Though not an impressive figure, it still motivates me. There is something with the numbers which keeps people going after it. I am no exception to it.
Filed under: Blog, Life, Motivation , 5000, Blog, Hits, Motivates, People, Wordpress
13 August 2008 • 11:24 pm
“The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct
is incomparably more intense than satisfying a civilized one.”
- Sigmund Freud
Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
An excerpt from the official website of the book.
The Interpretation of Murder leads readers from the salons of Gramercy Park, through secret passages, to Chinatown—even far below the currents of the East River where laborers are building the mammoth towers of the Manhattan Bridge. Even as Freud fends off a mysterious consipiracy to destroy him, it is Younger who is drawn into an equally thrilling adventure that takes him deep into intricacies, masks and subterfuges of the human mind.
Filed under: Books, People , America, Books, Interpretation of Murder, Jed Rubenfeld, Mind, Murder, reading, Sigmund Freud
12 August 2008 • 10:59 pm
Abhinav Bindra Wins Men's 10m Air Rifle Gold at Beijing 2008 Olympics
Abhinav Bindra got India its first individual gold medal. Kudos Abhinav and well done. This is India’s fifth individual Olympic medal that it has won till date. Hockey, shooting, weight lifting and tennis are the only disciplines where India has won its 13 medals in the 104 year history of Olympics.
India had to wait for a century to lay hands on an individual gold medal. A nation of one billion people has till now been able to garner only nine gold medals at the Olympics. Eight of them coming from our national sport—Hockey. A game comfortably neglected. What else can one think about the state of the game with both the men’s and women’s hockey team failing to qualify for the Beijing 2008 Olympics.
The winners, medals and everything that is Olympics are remembered only when the next Olympic games start. How many of us remember or rather know that Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav, Leander Paes, Karnam Malleswari and Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore won individual medals for India at Olympics? How does it matter?
Filed under: India, Rants, Reviews, Sports , 2008 Olympics, Abhinav Bindra, Air Rifle, Games, Gold Medal, Hockey, Nation, Olympics, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Shooting, Sports, Tennis, Weight Lifting
