The Airtel iPhone 3G data plans reveal that the phone can only be used with an Airtel connection. Customers enjoy free 500 MB of data download / month for 12 months and charges beyond this usage will be Rs 0.30/50 Kb. After the expiry of 12 months, customer can opt for a plan of his choice from the different plans available on offer. They also remind that if you unlock iphones before the expiry of 12 months, all warranties and benefits are void.

Vodafone pricing plans are starting at Rs 799, with local call at Rs 0.60 per min and STD calls at Rs 1/min, SMS local for Rs 1, National for Rs 2 and International for Rs 5, with Rs 249 free minutes and iPhone data browsing charges of 5p/10kb with free data usage of 250MB per month.

Vodafone lets you simply top your existing plan with a data plan starting Rs 499, with iPhone data browsing charges of 5p/10kb with free data usage of 250MB per month. Prepaid users can pay Rs 100 and get iPhone data browsing charges of 5p/10kb with no free data usage.

The Airtel iPhone 3G data plans reveal that the phone can only be used with an Airtel connection. Customers enjoy free 500 MB of data download / month for 12 months and charges beyond this usage will be Rs 0.30/50 Kb. After the expiry of 12 months, customer can opt for a plan of his choice from the different plans available on offer. They also remind that if you unlock iphones before the expiry of 12 months, all warranties and benefits are void.

Vodafone pricing plans are starting at Rs 799, with local call at Rs 0.60 per min and STD calls at Rs 1/min, SMS local for Rs 1, National for Rs 2 and International for Rs 5, with Rs 249 free minutes and iPhone data browsing charges of 5p/10kb with free data usage of 250MB per month.

Vodafone lets you simply top your existing plan with a data plan starting Rs 499, with iPhone data browsing charges of 5p/10kb with free data usage of 250MB per month. Prepaid users can pay Rs 100 and get iPhone data browsing charges of 5p/10kb with no free data usage.

Vodafone has also reduced the price of the Apple iPhone 3G by Rs 2,000, which is about $46.00, across the board.

Its been a week I am playing with my iPhone. Installing new apps (mostly free) and testing how they work. So far I have found few amazing apps which which use iPhone’s full potential.

1. Palringo Instant Messanger: Lets you login into yahoo, gtalk, msn, aim, ichat and many more IM services. One can send voice messages, pictures and text. Interface is pretty cool and intuitive.

2. PAD: Excessive use of mouse can lead to Carpal tunnel syndrome, using a trackpad instead of mouse helps a bit. Pad lets you use your iPhone as trackpad. The app is still far from perfection but basic mouse functions like click, double click, scrolling, right click work really well. Drag function is still buggy, but overall its a good app for $0.99. And yes, You can also use it as keyboard!

3.Tris: I generally do not like computer games, but once in while I play some simple game. Tris is a classic falling block game. I get hooked to it once in while and cant manage to stop playing it. So far my highest score is 3500. It uses touch gestures nicely.

4.Wordpress: They made it simple and easy. I like it for its simplicity.

5. Mocha VNC Lite: There are some cool apps which use wifi for remotely accessing your computer thru SSH, or controlling you iTunes and so on. Mocha VNC lets you control your full desktop. Over wifi its pretty fast. Mouse functions are still lil buggy. But zoom and other features are pretty good.

OpenClip is a copy-paste framework which can be used by iPhone developers to integrate Copy-Paste functionality in thier app. Its a open source not for profit project. The good thing about copy-paste is, it doesnt violet Apple’s developer agreement. Typically on iPhone no two apps can run simultenously. Due to the sandbox effect when one application pastes something on clipboard and quits, the clipboard data is also vanished with closing of the app, but openclip developers have found a way to use shared space of iPhone which can be used by any application and need to worry about loosing data pasted on it.

Developers can checkout the sourcode from thier subversion repository (http://www.openclip.org/svn/openclip/) and start integrating this great feature into thier app.

We are delighted to announce that the iPhone 3G will be available in India from August 22, 2008
It will be available in 8GB & 16GB models, priced at Rs 31,000 and Rs 36,100 respectively.

Airtel will also carry iPhone 3G in India but has not announced any pricing details as of now.