How Will India Users Activate Their iPhones?

[zainjetha]

Hi,

just curious... theres no itunes store in india yet, so just wondering how indian users will activate their iPhones? any chance of india getting an iTS?
just that apple may have to deviate from their usual way here..

zain.

 

[arkitect]

I activated my iPhone so many months ago I can't remember, but does activation require iTunes store or just iTunes (app)?

 

[lindsayanng]

when i activated my iphone, which was 2 weeks ago.. i did not have to go into the itunes store to activate, i just needed an intenet connection and itunes, it never once seemed to access the store.. then again, i'm no expert - my assumption would be that you COULD activate it anywhere you have a cpu with itunes, hacking it is another story though

 

[7on]

Just the app. Activation happens through the device icon for your iPhone on the left column, not through the iTMS icon.

 

[nickspohn]

You DO NEED the iTunes store to activate the iPhone. I remember when the iPhone came out, a lot of people would get the message "Cannot connect to iTunes Store" and thus couldn't activate it.


You could always unlock your iPhone though..

 

[drb6]

Surely there will be a workaround by the time the official release happens

 

[zainjetha]

possible in-store activation? i think this may happen.

 

[dacreativeguy]

Sounds like a question that really has no merit until Apple officially announces that the iphone is for sale in that country. Once that happens, it is pretty unlikely that Apple will require customers there to unlock, jailbreak, or travel to another country to activate their phone. Just be patient.

 

[zap2]

I'd guess Apple will allow iTunes in India to set the phone up.(or set it up like other phones)


There won't be a store, but thats ok, because you don't "use" the store part, you just go through it. Apple can set it up, were you go through the store, and set up the phone.