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iPhone in Australia ?

RPP

RPP

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Any indication as to when we may see it ? At the keynote Jobs mentioned the US, Europe and Asia but no mention of Australia. Anybody know ?

Sorry if this has already been asked, I've been away for the past few weeks.
 
RPP said:
Any indication as to when we may see it ? At the keynote Jobs mentioned the US, Europe and Asia but no mention of Australia. Anybody know ?

Sorry if this has already been asked, I've been away for the past few weeks.
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2008 with the rest of the Asian region would be my assumption.
 
yep we have to wait as usual.... Dunno about NZ, they usually have to wait even longer. Do our Kiwi friends have an official Apple store yet?
 
inlimbo said:
yep we have to wait as usual.... Dunno about NZ, they usually have to wait even longer. Do our Kiwi friends have an official Apple store yet?
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Mate, WE don't have an official Apple Store yet. Only the online store and resellers.

The Kiwis just got an official Apple presence there with an online store, dedicated apple.com/nz webpage and iTunes Store.

But neither of us have an Apple Store yet.
 
max_altitude said:
Whenever it comes out, I just hope to god it's not exclusive to Telstra.
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Doubt it. Optus are big enough and ugly enough to want a piece of the pie, as are Vodafone, if it starts selling well everyone's gonna be jumping through hoops to sell it.

So glad our system isn't as bad as the US though.
 
Chundles said:
Doubt it. Optus are big enough and ugly enough to want a piece of the pie, as are Vodafone, if it starts selling well everyone's gonna be jumping through hoops to sell it.

So glad our system isn't as bad as the US though.
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True.

But I hope they produce a 3G model so we can utilise the one decent communication network we actually have. They need to bring the cost of using it down as well.
 
Cingular = Optus???

I heard that somewhere along the line Cingular actually own Optus. If so, this would be a fairly good indication that Optus would get the iPhone contract in Australia.

In the Keynote, Steve also makes comment that a 3G model will be available down the track. My guess would be that they would have to make the Australian version 3G (or perhaps NextG with Telstra (does anyone know the difference between 3G and Next G???))
 
Brent.Curtis said:
I heard that somewhere along the line Cingular actually own Optus. If so, this would be a fairly good indication that Optus would get the iPhone contract in Australia.

In the Keynote, Steve also makes comment that a 3G model will be available down the track. My guess would be that they would have to make the Australian version 3G (or perhaps NextG with Telstra (does anyone know the difference between 3G and Next G???))
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Not sure about Optus and Cingular, to be honest. I thought Optus was owned by SingTel or something like that.

As for NextG, it's pretty much 3G on speed. I really hope they make prices reasonable so that it's actually accessible as a viable alternative to ADSL and Cable.
 
I would like to see someone like Virgin get it. Its GPRS after all. Virgin dont have a data service really yet, so they would be good to co-develop with Apple.
 
Chundles said:
Mate, WE don't have an official Apple Store yet. Only the online store and resellers.

The Kiwis just got an official Apple presence there with an online store, dedicated apple.com/nz webpage and iTunes Store.

But neither of us have an Apple Store yet.
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My bad.

max_altitude said:
Not sure about Optus and Cingular, to be honest. I thought Optus was owned by SingTel or something like that.
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Optus are owned by a Singaporean company aren't they?

Remember when that Vietnamese-Australian guy got hanged in Singapore for drug trafficing last year or the year before and people were going to boycott Optus because they were owned by a Singaporean company?


EDIT: good old Wikipedia

SingTel Optus Pty Limited is the second largest telecommunications company in Australia, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications (ASX: SGT). The company primarily trades under the Optus brand, while maintaining several wholly owned subsidiary brands, such as Virgin Mobile Australia in the mobile telephony market and Uecomm in the network services market.
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