They have partnered with Flipkart to sell the mobile exclusively. It was later announced that booking for the new mobile will open on Feb 6th.
I woke up in the morning of Feb 6th and logged on to Flipkart to see a disappointing message "SOLD OUT". Wow. over 20,000 mobile sold out in 1 hr flat and that too the 16 GB version was sold out in 15 mins !!!.
Waiting for the next batch of stock to arrive. This time i will burn the might night oil to buy one the moment its back in stock.
By the way i am buying this mobile for my wife who is currently using an iPhone 4. iPhone 4 was an excellent mobile until we upgraded to its latest OS 7. Since then its become a piece of brick. I mean it still works but horribly slow. Hence we have decided to ditch the Apple company and move over to Android. Apple you lost my respect when it comes to iPhone.