Yes you heard it right . Apple one of the biggest tech giant seems to be focusing now on the Indian market with a new strategy. Apple now decided to relaunch the iPhone 4 8GB version with an affordable price in Indiawith a view to push up the sales in India.
According to the reports on leading news websites states that Apple will relaunch its basic iPhone 4 at around Rs.15,000 in order to compete with all major players players like Samsung, Sony, Micromax and others. The original retail price for iPhone 4 in India is around Rs.26,500. So, the price may vary accordingly. At Rs.15,000, the iPhone4 will give other smartphone makers a run for its money, owing to the reputation of the brand.
According to a report published in a leading daily, Apple does not manufacture iPhone4 now, it can ship its entire unsold inventory to India. The iPhone4 which was launched three years ago and other iPhones like 4S, 5, 5c and 5s have come up since then. In fact, iPhone 5S is a dream phone in India when it was launched on November 1, 2013 and it ran out of stock within 24 hours of being launched in India.
Antenna's technology was a big problem area when Apple introduced its iPhone for 6 months ago. Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple did clarify the issue pertaining to the new Antennae technology used in iPhone 4. We also got a glimpse of Apple's Antenna Design and Test Labs - Apple. At these Labs, Apple Engineers are now working on a new Antenna design to place it behind the Apple Logo of portable devices. Patently Apple spotted a patent that describes a filing about Logo Antennas in Apple's portable products.
The Apple iPad has its antenna just behind the logo, which clearly shows what Apple's hardware engineers have been aiming to do. Apple Hardware Engineers are now working to place the Antennas behind the Apple Logo to gain stronger signal without intervening metal or interference from other conductive housing walls. Antenna won't be limited just to Wi-Fi but would cover cellular telephone bands such as GSM 850/900/1800/1900/2100MHz data bands. Apart from the multi-band telecommunications, the antennas would also support Global Positioning System capabilities.
Apple's Patent calls the new antenna technology as Logo Antenna and hardware engineers state that it's possible to cram behind the logos of mobile devices such as iPhone or iPod touch. Even laptops such as MacBooks can have this antenna behind the logo and hence might offer telephony option. In addition to that, these antennas can be placed in desktop machines like iMacs and Mac Minis.
Logo Antennas would be placed Apple products within housing machined from precision unibody aluminum block or other metals. The walls of housing might be used to hold conductive components such as displays. So the conductive antenna cavity might help isolating the Logo Antenna from other circuit inside the housing.
Year after year Apple aims at offering slimmer products and thereby increasing the challenge for hardware engineers to place the antenna in the best location in the product. It would be interesting to see future Apple products carry the Logo Antenna technology.
