Why not in INDIA?
 

One thing which I am sure of is that both Open Source and Nokia are very common in India. Specially Nokia is more or less a household name here. What surprises me is that even after having quite a few open source developers and many many open source users in India Nokia has still not introduced its 810 tablets and neither of its predecessor here. What exactly is Nokia waiting for?

Re: Why not in INDIA?
 

if it was profitable, they'd do it

Re: Why not in INDIA?
 

lack of widespread wifi

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Lack of data connectivity via 2G or 3G also (or else prohibitively expensice data plans) also.

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coz its not a phone. every single person, when they saw my n8x0 asked how is the phone and rapidly lost interest when they knew it was not one.

Re: Why not in INDIA?
 

i have a bsnl jodi sim with unlimited gprs at 200/- a month. speed sucks 20kbps or so but it does the job. i had 2 phones an N81 and an O2. now bought the dual sim samsung D880, dumbphone

Re: Why not in INDIA?
 

Coincidentally... I'm planning on taking my n810 / n82 on a trip to india... in 4 days time! (I'm a little excited)

My plan was to pick up an Airtel pre paid sim with some data so i can blog / check email / upload photos on the move. Ive read Airtel is the best carrier, is this true?

What kind of gprs speeds can i expect? I know there is no 3G to speak of, but is there EDGE? Any advice from anybody in India would be appreciated

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You are going to max out at 30kbps. But prepaid cards are so damn cheap in India.

I wish the US had such a free market. Dont count on the upload speeds to be good either. It takes a very long time to upload.

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Unlimited data plans are 500rs/month. Which is about 10$/ month. And then you also have the option of taking data plan per day... like 15rs/day. This is very convenient when u want to use it. I guess wimax would be a better option because of the population density.

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I am surprised, I was under the impression that there was 3g in the cities in India. There is good Edge and 3g speeds in many parts of Africa (I have travelled recently in South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya even Zimbabwe has 3G).

Re: Why not in INDIA?
 

No there is no 3g. But i guess edge is every where.Actually the fastest i could get was 60Kb in the city (hyderabad). You can get those laptop cards which are a little faster..... but don't count on broadband speeds.

Re: Why not in INDIA?
 

1.Market:- Nokia releases each and every model it releases in international market in India on the same day as in other markets. No matter how expensive they are. There is a market for such phones. We have Blackberrys for 2-3 years now(even more). Regarding people not comfortable with the interface of 810, I am not saying that this will be a very big success but it will do fairly well since there is a big Techie group of people who wants freedom 810 provide.

2. No 3g:- Nokia introduced 6630 which has 3g 3 years(may be more) ago and has been releasing such phones regularily.

3. No wifi/wimax:- people who will be customers for this phone most probably will also have wifi. I mean i have wifi at home and college and many places are increasingly having free wifi.

4.Profits for Nokia:- As far as I know 810 is not as popular as an iphone or a blackberry even in US or other markets. Why not in India?

Plus I think Nokia can sell this phone via their official website. I think they do have an obligation for the many open source users here.
Any one from Nokia do reply.

Re: Why not in INDIA?
 

Nokia aren't idiots - if it was profitable they'd do it, i'm sure they thought about it... it's not a question of obligations... its a business

Try contacting Nokia and asking - but i doubt they will give you the details of the expensive market research process they went through.

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It may be more viable with next device N900! (3g). Then TATA indicom, Reliance, and others can push N900! for their networks. Looking forward to it...

My trip with N800 was very dry. Only used in airports with TATA indicom wifi