Blackberry Phones from Hutch (Vodafone) and Airtel in India

Hutch by Vodafone and Bharti Airtel have launched Blackberry Smart Phones in India thought the latest version - Blackberry 8830 Curve isn’t around yet.

What you get is BlackBerry 7100g,  BlackBerry 8700g,  BlackBerry Pearl,  BlackBerry 8800 and BlackBerry Curve - all the blackberry models in India can be purchased online from either Rediff or Indiatimes shopping.

Hutch charges Rs 499 for 500 KB data download and Rs 1099 per month for Unlimited Data transfer.

Airtel has the same data tariff but they have an addition low cost Blackberry plan for not-so-heavy users - pay Rs. 249 monthly rental and data access cost is 15 paise per KB of data downloaded (usage charges). 

BlackBerry Internet Service supports Yahoo Messenger and Google Talk. It can be configured with any POP3/IMAP email account,whether personal or business. And if you are a Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo mail user, you can configure it directly on your BlackBerry smartphone without needing to enable POP3/IMAP.

BlackBerry Devices from Airtel are SIM locked to Airtel Network, and no other operator’s SIM will work on these devices.