It was recently announced that iPhone is being launched in India around September 2006 by Vodafone, almost a year after it was first introduced in US.

India is a unique iPhone market because of the fact that we already have thousands of iPhone users who have been using unlocked iPhones in India. Apart from the obivious question about the price, there are some more answers that eager iPhone fans in India seek from Apple/Vodafone.

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After several months of speculation, reports are in that Vodafone is going to launch Apple iPhone mobile handsets in India by September 2008. The expected price of the 8 GB model is Rs.28,000.
Although no official details are out yet, the handsets are expected to be carrier locked (you can only use them with Vodafone). It remains unclear whether the iPhone models will be available with all Vodafone plans or some specific/special iPhone plans.

While there have been instances of mobile pirates making iPhone fakes that are somewhat close to the original product, this one below is, well, not close at all. In fact its so confidently named iPhone that it almost makes you laugh..

Apparently, it also has a model number!

Here’s the link to the product page on ebay; some of the product features quoted there:

Simplified Chinese language, English, a large quantity of brush can be multi-lingual
“brush” can be multi-lingual, yeah right.. we understand that!

Shooting video with sound support

SMS repeated, Web cameras

Time-to-market - 2008.03
“Time to market”– Market launch date maybe.. and apparently its a hot new release!

And its just for 3500 INR, that is like a 100 USD.

Thank God for ebay, otherwise we geeks would have had nothing to laugh at.