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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    Vodafone firm to sell iPhone 3G in India

    NEW DELHI
    Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:00am EDT

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    NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Vodafone Essar, India's third-largest mobile operator, will sell Apple's (AAPL.O) iPhone 3G at 31,000 rupees ($708) for the 8GB model, a senior company official, who could not be named, said on Wednesday,

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    Vodafone Essar and larger rival Bharti Airtel (BRTI.BO) will start selling the device from Friday.

    Vodafone Essar will charge 36,100 rupees ($824) for the 16GB model. The new iPhone sells for as low as $199 in the United States.

    A spokesman for Bharti Airtel said the company would announce its price for the iPhone soon.

    ($1=43.8 rupees)

    (Reporting by Devidutta Tripathy, Editing by Mark Williams)
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