While Apple has managed to hit the 2 million mark with the iPhone 5 pre-orders in the first 24 hours, people have already started lining up outside Apple stores to be the first to get their hands on an iPhone 5 with random video chat app.
This has been the classic method for many Indians to get an iPhone in India. Since the device is released first in premier countries such as US, UK and Canada, which are luckily inhabited by a lot of Indians, many prefer asking their friends and relatives to buy an iPhone for them and then bring it along or somehow send it as a gift. The tricky part here is that the iPhone 5 is currently being sold under contract and it’ll take some time before the factory unlocked iPhone 5 devices show up. Although you can get one from Singapore or even UK. Now is the best time to fall in love with your relatives and friends abroad.
Even Infibeam has a page for ordering the iPhone 5 63GB in India but it mostly looks like it was their SEO team that put up the page rather than the product guys. It currently asks users to ‘call for details’.
The grey market has always been selling the iPhone ever since it was launched in 2007. The dealers make the most of it since iPhone officially arrives later rather than sooner. Some dealers also sell the iPhones at top of the world prices. Prices for the iPhone 5 in the grey market in India are set to kiss the 1.5 lakh mark this year as per this report.
This is the last and most unsatisfying option of them all – wait for the iPhone 5 to officially launch in India. It will need a lot of patience and mind control for you to wait for an official release. The word is out that Ingram Micro and Redington are the chosen companies for distributing the iPhone 5 in India. That may translate into better availability overall. Mobile operators have already placed orders for nano-SIMs that are used in the iPhone 5. Something tells me that enthusiasts won’t wait for that at all, anything to get the latest iPhone in the hands(stupid, of course).
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