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Our Iphone for India posts are indeed the most popular posts on the blog ever with around 500 comments :O , anyway i was reading Techcrunch today and it seems that the new Apple Iphone 3G will be sold only with a contract. Moreover it will be activated in-store only. So unlike last time you wont be able to buy the phone without contract and unlock it. Apple and AT&T surely have learnt their lesson, but this strategy will ofcourse decrease total Apple Iphone sales while increasing AT&T customer numbers. This is because earlier people were buying the Iphone to unlock it, but now that wont be happening. Also more people will be forced to activate and stay with AT&T, meaning more customers for them and rivals will be losing customers. T-Mobile needs to think quick now

Also cancelling it will need $175 , so Iphone 3G may not be the next big thing after all. Disappointing !

While you wait for the Iphone in India, have a look at these awesome Iphone commercials , i wonder if data speeds in India will allow such high speed internet !

Iphone Commercial 1 – All these Years !

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One of our readers Mac Kalvin has successfully run his Iphone mobile on Airtel India’s network after unlocking it. He has also compiled a step by step procedure to unlock the Iphone. Here are also some photos showing proof of the Iphone working on Airtel, the photos have been taken by Mac Kalvin. All these things are being posted here with permission from him.

In case you encounter any problem, you can clarify it with him, feel free to call him, IM him or email him (he says).

Airtel Network being received by Iphone

Airtel Customer Care being called on 121

Airtel Symbol and Edge Symbol on the Iphone

You may also download the PDF detailing the step by step unlocking of the Iphone from this link (external)

Iphone Unlock PDF (Updated)

How to unlock the iPhone using the anySIM program (New !!!)

Disclaimer :: Unlocking the Apple Iphone might void your warranty of the Apple Iphone, furthermore proceed with unlocking at your own risk, we will not be responsible for any damage caused as a result of you trying to unlock your Iphone.

And in the end, if you unlock your phone, please shoot a small video of the unlocked phone and send it to us.

Also the Iphone after being unlocked properly will run on Hutch, Airtel, Idea etc. and all other Indian GSM networks.

Also do not buy the iPhone from Indiatimes or other such shops, they are selling it for 45000 rupees, you can get an iPhone for Rs.16000 only and you can unlock it yourself for free.

Sorry for calling you crazy, but there is no sane person in India who would buy an Iphone. I know a few friends(rich and a little ignorant about technology in general) who have bought the Iphone from America or asked their uncles to bring the Iphone to India during their next trip. Most of those who already have got the Iphone in India are banging their heads on the wall. Because even after weeks of its launch , they still cant make it work on Airtel or Hutch. The iPhone is just a paperweight or an iBrick as some people prefer to call it

Despite our warning in our previous post, one of the readers bought a phone, and wrote to me. He thanked me for the good advice and then used the choicest swear words for me saying i should have been more clear that he should not have bought an iPhone, so here i am being more clear, if you are an Indian living in India, dont buy the iPhone just yet.

Thats the truth about mobile phones and the Indian people. Most Indian teens watch Gadget Guru on NDTV and feel they are topshot techies. Well here is an eyeopener, Gadget Guru wont make you a techie, maybe a tech salesman. Sometimes i feel if i had the budget of NDTV and i was asked to make a show like Gadget Guru, how much i would do. A Tech show should cater to a tech audience not a general demographic as Gadget Guru does. Ok, enough of NDTV bashing.

Again i repeat, unless you have 20k rupees in spare, dont buy an iPhone in India

In a boost to the grey market sellers of Palika Bazaar, Nehru Place etc., it seems that hackers are indeed making progress while busting the Iphone’s defences and unlocking it in the process. A person named Jon Lech Johansen has almost cracked the activation feature of an Apple Iphone, even though it is not using other sims yet, but one is able to use Wifi and Ipod capability of the Iphone using his method without any activation. the full unlocking is expected to take 1-2 weeks. And expect the Iphone to hit India 1 week after that.
So the iBrick becomes an Ipod, i can see the dealers at Palika Bazaar smiling already ! But for now people in India will have to wait for the Iphone.

As anger mounted on the Iphones activation fiasco, Apple should see what the people are facing

When you search for “My Iphone got activated” , Google corrects you , it tells you to search for “my Iphone not activated”