Actually...realizing India's demographic who will get this phone...the business owners/executives will likely give this a skip. This is more of an attraction for the fashion forward Gen-Y...especially those young, rich kids who can afford these. Though 50,000 does seem a large number. Especially with the iphone arriving, and the latest nokia's and SE's ALREADY established in the market.
There's a billion people in India, but most of them can't afford mobile phones, let alone HTC Touch Diamonds. Also, Nokia has a solid lock on this market. People naturally go to the most expensive nokia to show that they've arrived, which is what is boosting Symbian numbers compared to Windows Mobile.
Airtel has a decent EDGE network, but its really slow browsing and is crippled like T-Mobile's network. I'm guessing there are backhaul constraints rather than air interface constraints.
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Actually...realizing India's demographic who will get this phone...the business owners/executives will likely give this a skip.
This is more of an attraction for the fashion forward Gen-Y...especially those young, rich kids who can afford these. Though 50,000 does seem a large number. Especially with the iphone arriving, and the latest nokia's and SE's ALREADY established in the market.
Isn't there like a billion people in India. You mean HTC can't get 50,000 of them...
There's a billion people in India, but most of them can't afford mobile phones, let alone HTC Touch Diamonds. Also, Nokia has a solid lock on this market. People naturally go to the most expensive nokia to show that they've arrived, which is what is boosting Symbian numbers compared to Windows Mobile.
Airtel has a decent EDGE network, but its really slow browsing and is crippled like T-Mobile's network. I'm guessing there are backhaul constraints rather than air interface constraints.