its the same for the average population here (and we should know, we're the fastest growing market - one provider added 1m users in a month in November). Most - i hazard 60-70% - phones sold are the Rs. 5000 or less variety, that makes it GBP 60 or so. A large majority of those are the basic Nokia 1100, 1110 or 2300 which are monochrome. My phone for two years now has been the 2300, purchased primarily for its (sorry, Beags!) FM radio as I travel three hours a day by public transport. The other phones doing well are the 2600, 2610 and the Motoflip...
SMS is very popular here, though. Very cheap. And incoming calls are free here, unless you're roaming in another state or country.
I'd hazard that less than 0.1% of all phones in this country cost > Rs. 20,000 (GBP 250) and as for the smartphones, they are non-existent.
So Idon't really expect the iPhone to do well here, except among the top shots, and even at that level, I suspect, it will probably suffer due to Apple products having a 'geek' tag associated with them as opposed to the Blackberries and what-have-yous.
Bu-u-t.... It would make a nice birthday gift on my 25th Birthday, in 2008.
Now who on Proon is generous enough?
