My bad, I thought he said multi-year partnership and used the word exclusive in a different sentence meaning something else.
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T-Mobile to Sell iPhone in Germany: November 1st?
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My bad, I thought he said multi-year partnership and used the word exclusive in a different sentence meaning something else.
I don't know but i can tell you that I know a lot of people who really dislike Vodafone. Vodafone is also famouse for making a really ugly branding on the phones. I guess that Apple will say No to this, if they make the deal
Theyre actually moving away from this external branding a little recently and even when they do its fairly subtle.
That said no way would Apple let it happen so i reckon short of maybe a Voda logo on start up screen and menu bar it will be as apple decide
I'm a little biased - but Voda is the best network in the uK - not the cheapest neccasarily but best for service
Sheesh I remember when the dollar was worth more than the Euro...if they update that iPhone to 3G without first doing it in the US I think a lot of people will be pissed...
What is going on with that Qualcomm chip ban thing anyway? I thought that was upheld so a lot of phone companies can't make 3G phones right now
im guessing 4 out of 5 people have a mobile here in europe.cos were special
You have a point there - I did not mean to suggest that the answers are poor because there are foreigners involved, if a German, Indian or whatever is reading the wrong information from a screen does not really make a difference. Heck, when IBM still had the German hotline in Bavaria, I begged them a couple of times to transfer my call to Bangalore or the US to increase my chance of understanding something
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Anything is possible but I doubt it.
Apple put all it's resources (including OSX 10.5 people) into getting the iPhone released in June. They might have started work on version 2 of the iPhone but I doubt that it's too far along. Putting in a 3G chip would alone require a major repackaging of the iPhone due to the chips larger size and you would need new tooling at the factories to produce the new iPhones. The new iPhones would then need testing and CE approval before they could be shipped overseas. I'm assuming that you would then need the telco regulatory approval (similar to FCC) from each country before the iPhone can be used.
I stand by my prediction that you will not see a 3G iPhone till next year.
Deal with T-Mobile NOT final
Hello people, first post ever from a quiet reader for almost five years. And live from Germany, too...
The deal with T-Mobile seems not to be final as of now! According to information the very respected german business paper "Handelsblatt" seems to have acquired the "Rheinische Post" report is wrong.
Translation:
"Handelsblatt" article
Let's keep our fingers crossed - GO VODA!
Hello people, first post ever from a quiet reader for almost five years. And live from Germany, too...
The deal with T-Mobile seems not to be final as of now! According to information the very respected german business paper "Handelsblatt" seems to have acquired the "Rheinische Post" report is wrong.
Translation:
"Handelsblatt" article
Let's keep our fingers crossed - GO VODA!
That is generally the argument.
However... I have never seen anyone actually show the difference size or battery drain rates of 3G chips versus EDGE chips. Does anyone know of any actual numbers?
If this holds for The Netherlands as well, then I won't even need to get a new simcard (maybe)...
Same for me. Hoping for T-mobile in the Netherlands; seems likely in view of their presence here.
You know, I keep seeing posts like this saying that the German T-Mobile iPhone will not work on the U.S. T-Mobile network, but none of them have actually backed that up with any technical information.
Whatever is keeping people from swapping AT&T SIMs around on the American iPhone is the only thing that's going to keep a German iPhone from working in the states. Once that lock is defeated by the people already working on it, yup, you'll be able to use it here.
Actually, since users of the German iPhone may want to travel to America, and be able to make calls roaming on T-Mobile's American network, they would have to be able to work over here, too.
http://www.mobile-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=113009G7ZWVQ
5 years exclusive (in the states) with AT&T according to all the reports I read.
A few months back there was a story about Apple purchasing chips that could both decode and encode H.264. Now Apple has been revealed that one reason Apple prefers H.264 for the iPhone (as opposed to something like flash) is that Apple has H.264 hardware decoders in the iPhone that don't drain the battery nearly as much as the software-based solutions.
Apple may want to wait until the iPhone also has H.264 hardware encoders in the iPhone before allowing it to do video.
450 euro is a bit steep for a network locked phone. I work for a major Irish network and the research we've done says that the Europeans that would usually pay more than 400 euro for a phone, are the very people that care if their phone is locked or not.
Also, if there's no 3G on the phone in Europe, then it will be an utter flop. People like to go forward with technology, why take a step a few years backwards?
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You need to drink the koolaid. Unless a hack is found, AT&T will be your rear-service violator.
I call we'll be after Europe.. Probably in December. Sorta like what they did to us with iTunes.
I'm from Europe and I really do think the same. I don't belive they will switch to 3G.
But reading all this... I'm on 3 (carrier), which is all about promoting 3G services. The connection to the net is great and with Opera mini I got the "real" internet a while ago. Lacks Flash, as Safari on the iPhone. You're not able to do the fancy stuff (i.e. zoom), but works with almost every phone...
The iPhone... the hype is a success, looks great, user interface is surley better then on other phones...but I would never sign a contract just becouse of the phone. Makes no sense to me.
How big do you exactly think a 3G chip is? I'm pretty sure the iPhone is bigger than 90% of these phones.
If you believe Apple saying that, then I'll go ahead and sell you my 3G iPhone that was already sent to me by Apple for testing.
How big do you exactly think a 3G chip is? I'm pretty sure the iPhone is bigger than 90% of these phones.
If you believe Apple saying that, then I'll go ahead and sell you my 3G iPhone that was already sent to me by Apple for testing.
exactly - i have a w880 amogst other phones and its super thin and has decent battery so apple are making it up!