The announcements are now over and Airtel and Aircel are finally bringing the iPhone 4 to India on May 27, Friday. Remember that the same was launched in the United States almost an year ago in June. The iPhone 4 will be coming in two versions in India. One version of the iPhone 4 in India would have a memory capacity of 16GB and would be priced at Rs 34, 500, while the second version of iPhone 4 having a memory capacity of 32GB would come at a price of Rs 40,900. A requisite bumper, to avoid the ‘death grip’, will be charged for separately. Customers who are going for a new connection would be getting a micro SIM for the device.

Compared with its predecessors, the iPhone 4 comes with a sleek, sharp and comes with a 3.5 inch screen with 640 X 960 pixel resolution which is known as the Retina display. The Retina Display is considered to be the highest resolution display ever built into a phone. Another major feature of the iPhone 4 is the FaceTime for video calling facility. The operating system for iPhone 4 is iOS 4 and offers features such as multitasking, folders, spell check, iBooks and a other new features. The iPhone 4 has a 5 megapixel camera which has an LED flash also for illumination along with front VGA camera to support video calling.



The iPhone 4 has has WiFi, Bluetooth, HDMI and GPS for connectivity and promises seven hours of 3G talk time, six hours of 3G browsing, 10 hours of WiFi browsing, 10 hours of video and 40 hours of music playback. What else to ask from this iPhone 4 version?

Aircel, was the first to make the announcement of the iPhone 4 launch in India and is offering 100% value back to its iPhone users though two different plans. Aircel postpaid customers would be able to avail up to 100 per cent of the value of the iPhone 4 as talk time and data spread over a time period of 2 years (24 months). The Advantage Money Back Plan by Aircel offers up to 50 per cent of the value of the handset to its postpaid customers. The second plan by Aircel, named as the Premium Money Back plan offers up to 100 per cent money back over a 24 months period. Both these plans are applicable for 16 and 32 GB iPhone 4 versions.

Depending on the plan, the Aircel users will also be eligible for getting up to 1GB free 3G data usage and after that the Aircel users will be automatically switched to the 2G data plan for which they will be charged at 10 paisa per KB. Aircel has managed to keep the tariffs simple with both local and national call charges at 1 paisa /second.

On the other hand Airtel offers 50 per cent savings (per month) with different plans that ranges from Rs 600 to Rs 2,000. A person, who opts for the Rs 2,000 pack, will be able to save Rs 24,000 over a period of two years.

In the Rs 2,000 pack Airtel offers 1,900 minutes of Airtel to Airtel calls and 1,350 MB of data at 3G speed. On would also be getting 2,000 local SMS free. In the Rs 600 plan offered by Airtel, one would be getting 550 minutes of Airtel to Airtel local calls, 500 local SMS plus 300 MB of 3G data.