Its been almost 15 days since the Iphone was launched in India. Reports are coming that the sales are very poor. They are much much lower than the expectations of the telcos (Airtel & Vidafone). 

I fully agree that the pricing was decided by Apple and the two telcos did not have any hand in deciding the price. But I also strongly believe that they could have added an incentive for the user to buy the phone. Airtel has atleast offered 500MB of free surfing (can you use 500MB on the crappy GPRS - they do not offer EDGE at present) and they could have also offered a monthly credit to the user. For example they could have givena Rs 500.00 rebate to postpaid users if their monthly bills crossed Rs 1000.00. The same could have been done for prepaid users by offering additional talk time on recharge.

This would have kept the user happy. He/She  would have received back Rs 12000.00 over 2 years and the telco would have retained the customer for 2 years. It would have been a win-win for both customer and telco.

Hope that the telcos take some lessons from the poor response.

Bye

I have read many Google Chrome reviews on the net. Here are some good ones.

Walt Mossberg of All Things D

Ryan Paul of Ars Technical

Greg Sterling of Search Engine Land

Harry McCracken of Technologizer.com

Web Worker Daily

Read and make up your mids.

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I downloaded the Google Chrome on my Dell Laptop and on my PC. I have been using Firefox for last 4 years and used Opera before that. Now let me get to the review.

It is a barebone browser in the sense that it does not offer any  options to add extensions / toolbars like Firefox. It has also very limited options to change the settings. Only the minimum options have been given. They also do not have a search box… imagine the biggest search engine shipping a browser without a dedicate search bar. Same as Windows shipping without the crappy IE.

Chrome imported all my bookmarks from Firefox 3.0 but did not import any passwords although it took permission to do so. A bug that the team has to fix. And it happened on both my systems. So I wont be blaming my PC or Firefox.

The page loading speeds appear faster when you use some sites like Google Reader but there are not many visible differences in other sites. One point though - Gears did not function properly with reader. Even after syncing I had to be online to read the feeds.

Gmail also loads pretty well and functioned without any trouble. I have had some issues with slow Gmail and other errors in Firefox 3.0 but did not find any such problem with Gmail in Chrome. So the guys at Google have worked hard there.

I though have started to miss my extensions in Firefox like Digg, Shareaholic, Weave, Better Gmail and my absolte favourite - Ubiquity. I have tons of extensions on FF 3.0 and would love to see the same functionality in Chrome. 

So Google you have a good browser but get it out of beta and fast. Release API’s and get the extensions working. 

Hi everybody. I am a 33 year old Indian living in Southern part of India.  I am an Internet Addict and a gadget freak. I love to buy new phones and computers ,but cant afford to . I like free software over paid ones. (Cheap na) . So expect some posts about new software and technologies and some other stuff also.