Here’s the good news: Vodafone, one of the two service providers officially licensed to sell the iPhone in India –has announced it will launch the 3G version of the product in India soon and has already started taking bookings. It won’t be long before you see iPhone zombies walking all over New Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore with their nifty earphones and getting startled when they get a phone call in the middle of a Coldplay song. Now for the really bad news for people having the misfortune of sitting next to an iPhone owner in the Metro, or a bus or just in the carpool that you thought was a great “Go Green” idea. Among the hundreds of applications that have suddenly emerged to make the iPhone interactive and more user-friendly, the latest one takes the cake. It lets users have video ringtones. So now, we not only have to bear the cacophony of a Himesh Reshammiya song blaring out of the blue, but those sitting next to these carriers of disharmony will also have to see him dance. With 3G phones allowing for good bandwidth, my fear is that downloaded video ringtones would do the same damage to our intelligence as soap operas did to our family lives, just that they will destroy us one by one, unlike the soaps that commit mass murder on intellect.
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