well, if you look at the number of mobile telephone lines and handsets sold you could be in for quite interesting surprises, my friend
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Unlocked 3G iPhone to Launch in Italy?
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well, if you look at the number of mobile telephone lines and handsets sold you could be in for quite interesting surprises, my friend
I was gonna say.
Better to do public beta testing for the 3g phone in a market that has the 3g infrastructure up and running and has for a long time.
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If true it'd be both a blessing and a curse. A blessing because I might get the same sort of deal in Australia, hopefully unlocked too... But a curse because I'll have to save much more =[
If true it'd be both a blessing and a curse. A blessing because I might get the same sort of deal in Australia, hopefully unlocked too... But a curse because I'll have to save much more =[
who's in italy? around 60 millions people, more or less six times the whole population of Australia
and the amount of mobile phones in italy is in average two phones per each person. Total: 120 millions. What about refreshing a little bit your geographical knowledges?
All i want is a new slimmer 3G iphone in the US to be released at WWDC (locked or unlocked) !!!!
The article doesn't say that Italy will be the first region globally. Just that they will launch the 3G version in a few weeks.
I'm from the Netherlands and there are soooo many people here walking around in amsterdam with jailbroken IPhones. It has been rumored for a while that the IPhone will be introduced here too, but I guess it only makes sense to do this for the 3G version. I feel really sorry for these people, when on top of the fact that they "missed out" on the 3G version, they also could have a legal unlocked version.
I think it would great if Apple would do this. I guess they woke up and saw the potential of opening up, with all those IPhones "missing"..
Sorry guy, you're wrong.
The same news is widely reported also in the financial (and very authoritative) "Il Sole 24 Ore":
http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/Sole...80-11dd-a3f6-00000e251029&DocRulesView=Libero
Yes we must, because even when you take off the tax, there is a large difference.
in US$
MacBook in the US - 1299
MacBook in Ireland - 1565
MacBook in Germany - 1592
I don't see the problem. Visual voicemail is no technical prodigy. Italian phones have had a similar service for more than 10 years, where the user would get an SMS with the number of the caller who left a message. Steve makes it sound like he discovered the wheel
Visual voicemail allows for random access to voicemail messages from the phone.
With the system you have described, it sounds like once you have received this SMS you would have to ring another number to actually listen to the message.
For the last time (not likely but it adds the emphasis I'm after) the Irish don't get paid in US dollars nor do the Germans nor does anyone else in Europe. I've said it before and I'll certainly have to say it again. The $1300 to an American making $50k is the exact same as (I can't find the Euro button...) 1300 Euros to someone getting paid 50k Euros. It's not about exchange rates - it's about the value of the product to the consumer.
Opinion. Few on here would know any better as to whether thats an "authoritative" source, or just another geek-laden rumor swill.
3G iPhone anywhere ahead of the U.S. won't happen. Not a chance.
About three times the population of Australia apparently.
EDIT: Oops, I see that particular point of idiocy has already been covered.
It is VERY HARD being an apple fan in Canada!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Apple fan? After being ripped off from German Telecom I turned from Apple fan to Apple hater overnight. I still use their operating system because I'm used to it, but I no longer talk nicely about them and I no longer buy anything from them if I don't have to. Glad that my next Apple computer will be a compatible box.
How were you ripped off ? Did Apple break into your bank account or steal your wallet ? Don't get the iPhone or jailbreak if you don't like the terms.
It doesn't seem likely that Apple would launch something like that in a country other than the US. However, it might be good to test it in a smaller market before brining it stateside. Who knows? With so many 3G iPhone rumors going around, I'm just waiting for the official announcement.
Don't lump the US into the uncompetitive category. The US market is so competitive that AT&T ate the iphone tax themselves. AT&T's iphone plan is a regular price voice plan bundled with a regular data plan --- and charge no extra money.
Yeah, Apple's plans for the iPhone are getting ridiculously complex and impossible to figure out, especially in the absence of any clear communication from the company itself.
Yet another case of how the "old Apple" policy of total secrecy and having no road-maps for consumers or partners works against the "new Apple's" hopes to conquer the world.
Let's hope that the unlocked 3G iPhone is available world-wide so we can finally get some stability as well as some idea of whether there is an iPhone in our future. (I am speaking of the majority of the world that doesn't actually have the iPhone yet, here)
For instance in Canada, (as well as in China), the only reason we don't have an iPhone is that the carriers wanting to make more money off of the consumers than Apple sees as fair, and their reluctance to share the profits they will make with Apple. This will not change no matter what new models of iPhone Apple comes out with, it will only change if Apple is willing to sell an unlocked iPhone so the carriers can compete with each other, which will inevitably lead to lower prices for the consumer.
I don't know, between the following I am going to go with the assumption that iPhone 3G is coming out prior to WWDC.
1. This article
2. WWDC is software focused
3. Still think the colorwarepc.com showing special edition iPhone on 4/28 means something.
4. Other people are reporting that iPhone is now shipping towards middle of May (May 12th), not the 5-7 business days as reported on Apple's website in US. Another poster said that Apple updated shipping date from 4/21 to 5/12.
1. This article
2. WWDC is software focused
3. Still think the colorwarepc.com showing special edition iPhone on 4/28 means something.
4. Other people are reporting that iPhone is now shipping towards middle of May (May 12th), not the 5-7 business days as reported on Apple's website in US. Another poster said that Apple updated shipping date from 4/21 to 5/12.
I too would like to know how you were ripped off? And, was it Apple or German Telecom doing the ripping? You make it sound like German Telecom.