mumbai friday 6 pm us time as the world gets ready for this deadline to grab one of the most sought after handsets the iphone two indian companies are also getting ready to register gains from this revolutionary offering of apple inc the makers of macintosh computer popularly called mac and the ipodnoidabased hcl infosystems and bangalorebased wipro technologies are close to becoming the exclusive indian distributors of the iphone analysts are expecting 13 million handsets to hit the shelves on fridaya luxury product costing 499 for 4 gigabytes memory and 599 for 8 gigabytes memory iphone will have a large touch screen minus the conventional keypad it will also double up as an ipod video player and will come equipped with a digital cameradespite some of its flaws the iphone has bagged rare reviews and is being branded as a breakthrough handheld computer as it automatically syncs all contacts from a pc a mac or internet service the good response is seen helping apple incs head steve jobs to meet his goal of selling 10 million iphones in 2008 such sales will automatically catapult iphone to third major revenue garner for apple along with mac and the ipodback home hcl info and wipro may have to wait only few weeks before counting their profits generally companies get 23 commission on the sale of handsetsthe hype behind the iphones launch globally has already hit the indian shores there are quite a few people waiting to grab the latest gizmo said technology analyst of leading domestic broking firmboth hcl info and wipro could not be reached for comments on the distribution side hcl info already has an edge due to its multiyear contract with nokia in the domestic market nokia has 71 marketshare as on february 2007 followed by motorola at 14 sony ericsson at 8 samsung at 3 and rest 4in us att has bagged the multiyear license to distribute iphone as per media reports att will be selling iphone with a twoyear service plan with prices varying from 60220 a month the phone will also be available directly from apple retail stores