Google India Ad is beautiful, strikes emotional chord!

The ad has gone viral in just over two days when it was posted onto Google India’s YouTube channel and has crossed some 4 million views on YouTube.

Through this ad, Google India advertises the power of its search functionality and also manages to strike an emotional chord with its viewers not only in India but also in Pakistan. The ad encapsulates the power of Google search and how it can bring people closer as well as find anything and everything at the click of a button.

The three-and-a-half-minute ‘Reunion’ ad is about friendship, fond childhood memories, separation and reconnecting to a tender past. In the ad, available on YouTube with English sub-titles, an Indian Punjabi is shown telling his granddaughter Suman about his fond childhood memories in Lahore, Pakistan.

In case you have not seen this beautiful ad, here is the video link to it. This heart warming ad is sure to overwhelm you.

iPhone 5s sold out in India, shortages everywhere!

The iPhone 5s and 5c opened for sale in India on Friday 1 November ahead of the Diwali weekend to a demand that rapidly outstripped supply and on Tuesday.

According to The Times of India, Apple’s iPhone 5s sold out within 24 hours of launching in India, which is now the world’s third largest smartphone market by volume. Initial supply is unknown — possibly as low as 30,000 units across the country, according to “trade estimates” — but India now marks yet another market where consumers will have to wait for weeks to buy Apple’s latest phone. 

On Tuesday, Economic Times reported that “top multi-brand cellphone and electronic retail chains such as The MobileStore, PlanetM, UniverCell and Future Group say their 5S stocks are over but that they still have 5C phones.” The report adds that trade estimates put the number of iPhones launched in India was close to 30,000 of which around 6000 were iPhone 5s devices. Reliance which is offering the phone for a year contract sold out the devices in one and a half days.

But when it comes to the iPhone, it’s not just the big guys who are facing a supply shortage and a demand overload. Local mobile stores in Delhi too have very limited supply of the iPhone 5s, which seems to be in high demand.

As far as offers on the iPhone 5s are concerned, Reliance Communications is offering the smartphone for a sweet Rs 2,999 per month for a contract period pf  24 months. The offer will include the handset cost, unlimited local and STD calls, SMS, national roaming and 3G data. Under this offer, Apple iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s customers will not receive any usage bill for 24 months, as the monthly payments include all usage charges. Only international calls and international roaming charges will have to be paid for. The iPhone 5c is also available on the same offer but for a monthly payment of Rs 2599 with the same data and voice deal. Customers however will require a credit card for buying the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c under the offer. They will need credit cards from ICICI Bank, Standard Chartered, HDFC Bank and Citi Bank. The amount will be billed to their credit card.

Apple’s India success story: iPhone 5s sold out in less than 24 hrs

Sales of the lowerpriced colourful iPhone 5c, however, picked up pace only from Saturday with consumers buying the model since the 5s was sold out. However, the iPhone 5c is also selling like hot cakes, with retail chains expecting their stocks to be sold-out during the weekend.

Apple launched its two new iPhone models in India on Friday in a series of events in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Delhi, Ludhiana, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Gurgaon and Kolkata. The Apple iPhone 5s is priced between Rs 53,500 and Rs 71,500, depending on the size of the internal memory, while iPhone 5c is priced at Rs 41,900 (16 GB) and Rs 53,500 (32 GB). At Mumbai’s Phoenix Mills in Lower Parel, which was one of the selected venues of the launch, the event was supposed to start at 5 pm. However, reports say people were queuing since 8 in the morning. The country’s largest cell-phone retail chain, The MobileStore, sold out its iPhone 5s stock in cities like Pune on Friday itself. The MobileStore CEO Himanshu Chakrawarti told ET, “The hype is huge, probably due to the shorter gap between the US launch of the device and India.” At the Lower Parel launch, the phones were sold out in just three hours. The gold version of the iPhone was sold out even faster and many consumers were forced to buy the silver one, reported DNA.

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As per retail industry estimates, some 30,000 units of iPhone 5s and 5c models were distributed in India in the launch phase, which includes some 6,000 units of iPhone5s. New stock of iPhone 5s will available again from Wednesday. It seems Apple got it right this time by launching the two new phones during Dhanteras.

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