World’s most awaited phone of the year Apple iPhone is ready to hit the markets. AllThingsD reported that Apple will unveil the next iPhone at an event on September 10, 2013. It will be exactly an year for the iPhone launch on September 12, 2012 to this September 10, 2013 which was too predicted by AllThingsD.
Apple is striving hard to sell its devices in India, especially when it comes to the iPhones. Recently, the Cupertino based company adopted the EMI scheme for iPhone 5 and exchange offer for the iPhone 4. Now, it seems like it has come up with a different strategy in collaboration with Snapdeal.
Well, it was spotted on Snapdeal Facebook fan page that the online retailer is offering special discounts on iPhone. According to the post, Snapdeal is currently selling the iPhone 5 at 10% discount, iPhone 4S at 25% and iPhone 5 at 20% off.
Consequently, on checking the website, iPhone 4 8GB is priced at Rs 22,800, iPhone 4S 16GB at Rs 33,375 and iPhone 16 and 32GB variants at Rs 40,950 and Rs 47,250 respectively.
Earlier, the same website was selling the 16GB iPhone 5 at Rs 42,900, while its official price is Rs 45,500. At the same time, the 32GB model costing Rs 52,500 was available at Rs 50,100 and the 64GB model priced at Rs 59,500 was listed at Rs 57,200.
The Apple iPhone 5 is not too different from the iPhone 4S and received a lot of criticism while it was launched. However, being one of the best selling smartphones, the iPhone boasts a 4-inch display with a resolution of 1136×640 pixels, Apple A6 chipset and 1GB RAM.
Further, the smartphone comes in three configurations 16/32/64GB internal storage, 8-megapixel rear camera with iSight technology and a 1.2-megapixel front camera for video calling. Based on iOS 6, the iPhone packs connectivity features like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, 3G and micro USB 2.0 support and is equipped with a battery offering up to 8 hours talk time and 225 hours standby.
Apple is constantly doing new things and trying new methods to gain market share in India, the second most populous country in the world. In one of these attempts, Apple is offering discounts to those who bring in their old smartphones, and now offers a larger discounts for students up to Rs 7,777 on the purchase of a new iPhone. Another way to get discounted is by using an American Express card, in which Rs 6,000 will be refunded with the purchase of an iPhone.
iPhone 5 has been feeling the heat of the launch of the latest crop of flagships from its rivals. And the heat that it’s been feeling for a while is all set to go north with the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One. These smartphones will start hitting the stores globally by April end-May start and iPhone 5 will be the one that will be the worst hit in terms of performance so Apple needs something great to bounce back.
‘Apple is going to launch a new iPhone that will support dual SIM feature’, sounds good, but ‘no’ there is not any type of news from Apple. I am just kidding and don’t expect it from Apple in the near future too. Users want this feature because it’s not good to carry two phones at a same time. And it becomes very frustrating some time switching your SIM card time to time and even when you are travelling to other countries than it becomes a hazard switching SIM card. Apple iPhone has many features that a user want in his phone, but this feature of dual SIM capability is not going to available in iPhone. But still you can use alternative of dual SIM capability by kickstarter’s SIM+.
Apple has been shortening the life cycles of its products by launching their next generations even before an year is completed. This may result in customers resenting to them but Apple always finds new customers for themselves. Now the latest report that has come in that the next generation of the iPad will be launched as soon as in April with the iPhone 5S to follow in August.
China and India are the world’s two most populous countries and that is an incentive good enough for companies in every industry to see the two markets as one their most important markets. Apple, the giant that has changed the way the world uses smartphones could not really a change a lot of things in China and India because the iPhone in every generation has been quite steeply priced for both these countries.
But Apple seems to have realized that it can not sell the iPhone in these countries with such high pricing and the word has it that Apple is working on a cheaper sibling of the iPhone that could be priced around Rs.18,000-Rs.20,000 which is lesser than even half of what the iPhone 5 costs. Let’s face it, how many of us can really afford an iPhone? It costs a whopping Rs.45,000. So a cheaper version would surely make a lot of sense.
Apple has started seeing India as one of their most important markets(finally), and India now gets the products from the stable of Apple pretty much at the time of the global launch. The company recently announced the iTunes store for the Indian music lovers and now they have gone on to launch their Apple TV service in the country. It comes at a slight premium over other media streaming services but then it’s Apple and they deserve a bit of a premium. Apple TV has been priced at Rs.8,295 in India.
Apple TV has been officially launched by the company in the country with their website getting updated regarding the same with the product hitting in the retail stores in next 7-10 days. Most of us are unaware of this service so let us explain to you what exactly is the Apple TV. Apple TV is essentially a media streaming gadget which will let you steram content from popular media streaming websites like YouTube, Netflix, Hulu Plus, and Vimeo. But the device has no storage capacity.
