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1. Comment - Apple's iPhone 3G gets ho-hum response in Poland and India

   (Aug 27, 2008 - 1:53 PM)

   I was not accurate about the battery. thie new 3G iphone does not have a soldered battery but hey ...
   * still no slots for adding memory cards like those 8GB micro SDHC or 32GB SDHC cards
   * no Java and flash support ...
   * no support for voice dialing? (voice command dialing)

2. Comment - Apple's iPhone 3G gets ho-hum response in Poland and India

   (Aug 27, 2008 - 10:41 AM)

   2007 estimated per capita ANNUAL income GDP for India is US $937. you still wont want to target a $712 phone at a family even if both the partners made $10000 each a year typing computer code, unless the employer was paying for it
   
   Factor that with the facts that
   * Cheaper "unlocked" phones are available for equivalent of $100 (there is no such thing as an unlocked phone. all phones are made free. its the north american and european operators who lock them to get their customers into their slavery contracts in the free modern world of west)
   * no 3G is service available
   * the daily lives and the spending profiles are nowhere close to that of the west. (The west should really take their moment and study the indian culture and the mentality of the indian consumer)
   
   and add in these facts
   * you would get locked into a phone with high initial cost and monthly bills
   * the phone does not offer indian languages probably (yep, ever since the british had a stronghold on india some of the country speaks english very well. even though it is a software powerhouse for most countries of the world in the respective country's local language, availability of local language software in any indian language is almost ZERO)
   * the iphone reportedly had a battery that is soldered inside and you need to go back to apple to even have the battery replaced
   * you could easily get mugged on the street if the wrong person found out you had an expensive iphone ... OR what if you simply lost or broke it
   * why would an indian consumer pay 90cents to apple itunes to purchase an mp3 of a indian song made in india and uploaded to a non indian server, and give 10 cents to the music company? they get their music literally for free & ipods which are cheaper do a good job of playing the music like all other much cheaper mp3 players (i dunno if the costs are the other way around or different, irrespective of the numbers... the question holds)