iPhone Rival Touch enters indian market

While iPhone is not likely to reach Asia and so India at least untill 2008 those who are lusting for it in India can try out its rival HTC's(High Tech Computer Corp) Touch which is based on a similar touch screen based technology called TouchFLO.Touch has been launched in India (just a week after global launch)exclusively in association with Airtel and its users can get it for Rs 19,900 which might turn out to be cheaper than iphone which at 600$ when roughly translated in indian currency might come out in the range of Rs25000.Touch is initially available in 10 cities in India namely Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Pune, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad and Jaipur however HTC has plans of expanding in 25 more cities in recent future.Here is an ad of the Touch phone.

However I must warn you its initial reviews are not very exciting Fox has done a review of it here. More on Touch in EconomictimesIn fact iphone has other rivals who are also coming with touchphones with recently Sony announcing W960 Walkman series which has a touchscreen , built in Wi-fi and memory for storing about 8000 tunes directly competing with iphone.
Livemint has an interview with Touch's CEO Peter Chou here