Indonesia’s Telkomsel to introduce iPhone 3G officially on March 20
A bulk SMS finally delivered to customers who has order the iPhone 3G offerred by Indonesia’s Telkomsel. It is said that Apple and Telkomsel are proudly to announce the iPhone 3G in Indonesia officially on March 20. The event will be held at 8 PM at Pacific Place Jakarta. yet the place and the price plan haven’t been mentioned. Customer can buy the handset starting on March 20 until 22 at South Pacific Place. After that, you can pick it up at selected Telkomsel’s GraPARI outlets, OKE shop, Global Teleshop, Sarindo, and Telesindo. We previously reported that the phone will start its selling date on March 23, that will be 3 days after the official introduction.
Malaysia’s Maxis is also reportly going to introduce iPhone 3G presence on the same date. This information slashes all speculation about when the phone will arrive.
iPhone 3G is the current Apple’s phone which scores sales record by reaching 1 million unit sold in one week. Apple wishes to have good selling record in both countries, although the smartphone markets have been filled by BlackBerry devices and numerous of Windows Mobile and Symbian powered phones.
Update:
Here is the price plan revealed in Telkomsel’s iPhone page :
Pricey, huh? iPhone 3G 8GB with current rate equals to US$ 814, while the 16 GB version is sold at US$ 950.
March 13th, 2009 at 9:34 am
way to go telkomsel!!! fail!
March 16th, 2009 at 3:20 am
finally.. its about time. apple took so long to reach here so i think most of the smartphone users in indonesia have already fell into the berrys. i got one and all i need now is an ipod touch.