Bharti Airtel, the country’s largest mobile operator by subscriber base, is all set to launch the iPhone 4 in September-October this year. The announcement was made today by Bharti’s CEO Sanjay Kapur.
Currently, the company offers the 3GS handset that is priced at Rs 35,500 for the 16 GB model and Rs 41,500 for the 32GB model.
Earlier, Vodafone Essar had said that it planned to bring the world’s thinnest smart phone to India without giving a specific time frame.
Bharti and Vodafone have both won 3G license which will help them boost sales of the iPhone whenever it is launched.
US-based Apple Inc, the inventor of iPods, iPhones and iPads officially announced the launch of the iPhone 4 with a sharper screen and video-chat features in an attempt to ward-off competition from devices running Google’s Android software.
Apple’s iPhone 4 has the highest resolution display ever built into a phone.
The iPhone 4 has a new camera system, capable of video-conferencing and recording high-definition video.
The iPhone has emerged as Apple’s top product, overtaking its Macintosh computer and iPod.
In June, Apple Inc. and its phone company partners took orders for more than 600,000 iPhone 4s in one day, the highest number it’s ever seen.