Is this Orange's French iPhone?
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted Sep 17th 2007 12:49PM
posted Sep 17th 2007 12:49PM
[Via TechCrunch]
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More Apple news....Wow engadget is really free Appletising....This is crazy!!!
I know I can use the Apple free RSS feeds
Still.... Its crazy how much love apple gets from Engadget
It's even crazier how much Apple-haters love to read and respond to Apple news.
Im not an Apple hater....Ive got an video ipod,iphone,Imac and Mac Book.....I LOVE Apple...But im not so dumb I cant see that Engadget is enamored with everything Apple
It isnt about hating anyone.
I for one would be PO'd if all the stories were about Vista, PS3, or some other companies products.
The sad thing is that most of these stories are basically just dupes or some puffball piece that could have been just a brief summary and a link to the actually story instead of this dramatic write-up and a large blurry picture.
Well, whatever you wish to call yourself or claim that you own, you, and the others like you, keep flooding the discussions with the same comment.
Umm b/c its true....count how many apple stories there are EVERYDAY that are not even news...Drone
You i'msickofhearingaboutapplesoi'lljustbitchuntiligetmyway people just don't get it.
I don't own any Apple products and I agree, I get a little bored/annoyed when all I see is apple. I was given the option to opt out and not hear ANYTHING about Apple or the iPhone but I declined. I didn't want to miss out on the actual BIG Apple news, so I chose to deal with it. That was MY choice. You don't hear me complaining.
Seriously, it's like being offered a job, declining, then complaining cause you don't have any money.
Dude, it's a BLOG, not the WSJ.
Seriously. They post snippets. I don't know what the beef here is. There's a non-Apple feed for the egregious whiners.
Didja see the story that followed it? About the eco-friendly webcam that looks like an adult novelty toy? Yeah, like I said: blog.
You want categorized news, well, read the news. Jeez...
Wait, wtf is this post about again?
I just checked the Engadget homepage, and, where is the flood of Apple news? What, are you bitching about 3-4 stories out of 'how many' on the main page?
They're posting news, not favouring anyone. Just shut up and stop whining. There is 'no' flood of Apple news, just people finding things to complain about.
Fuck you, SteveJ
I agree,
Cut it out with the apple crap.
Yes the RSS feeds would be nice if the stories were not outdated.
Why the hell do people keep bitching about the flood of Apple news? The iPhone is a pretty big deal at the moment so what the hell did u expect? If you dont want to read about it - then just skip over and move onto the next story. Nothing more annoying than reading an Apple related story to see someone bitching about it in the comments. Your bitching isnt going to change anything - so just stop with the stupid comments. If you dont like it - go read something else.
John M: and you calling it "gay" of Engadget posting any and all news related to Apple just shows how ignorant you truly are. No one is holding a gun to your crotch forcing you to read every Apple-related post. If you are tired of it, skip it or go to another tech blog/site (like Cnet, where I can find about 8 posts mentioning either Apple, iPod, or iPhone on their front page alone).
@Blobbie
Whats gay is they consider it news...Just read a few stories up where Steve Jobs arriving in London is BIG NEWS...Whats next *** Breaking story*** Steve Jobs changed his shirt
***** Breaking News**** Steve Jobs took a dump
Whats "GAY" is how a once good site about all gadgets has shoved its face so far up apples butt
Nice pic. Where can I send you the bill for the co-pay needed for my next eye exam?
Why are the pics always blurry?!
Because if it is a decent picture all you hear is "photoshop".
They were taken on iPhones
and if you have them blurry...everyone shouts photoshop with an ounce of skill!
I call fake for two reasons:
1) The word "Off" is not translated... and i don;t know French, but i am guessing "Off" is not written as "Off" in french - anyone know about this?
2) Everything else in the pic is clear... i think any camera would auto focus on the screen being that it is big and right in the middle of the image. You would have to go through some work to manual focus on everything except the phone...
just my thoughts...
I was thinking the same thing...It looks like whoever did this just threw a blur filter over the entire picture...Very easy to clone text in photoshop/Shake
Not to mention the word "Configuration".
If that is indeed real, then it is just a hack job, maybe an alpha or something. First, there is no AM/PM in France. They use military-style time, so 4:30 PM would be 16:30. Second, only the first word of an expression should be capitalized in French (except for proper nouns, of course). So "Fond d'Ecran" should be "Fond d'écran". As for ON/OFF, even though it is not French, I think most people over there understand and use these words anyway. The French equivalent seems just a bit too long: "Allumé/Eteint". They could use "Oui/Non" instead, I guess.
If you notice, you will see T-Mobile
I call fake on it! France doesn't use the word 'E-mail', 'Curriel' was created a few years back so that they would have a distinctly french word for E-mail...
No, "curriel" was created as some French people disprove of "Franglais" i.e. English words finding their way in to French, for example "les blue-jeans" instead of "les jeans bleus" for a pair of jeans.
However, many French people still say E-mail and it's the accepted word in most places.
Slight correction... the actual word is "courriel".
Same diff in the end. (Thanks for the spelling correction. I kinda knew I'd gotten it wrong...)
Did you even look at the photo? It says in the upper left that the carrier is T-Mobile. Probably a fake anyways!
MJB
Lots of "english" words
Does anyone know if you can just change the language on the phone menu (like the ipod) then you just take a picture of it while roaming in Europe on T-Mobile's network? Off does not translate in French (when you are talking about ON/OFF for a device), Configuration is the same work in French and means the same. T-Mobile is not even a French carrier... it's fake.
it's a shitty fake
The article notes that the plans may not have unlimited data. I may be alone, but I wish they'd offer a lower-priced limited-data plan in the US. If they had a $30 per month plan, I'd buy an iPhone, no question about it. The price of the iPhone itself is fine, I simply can't afford $60 per month. $30 per month for voice and occasional data would be much more palatable.
shows a 12-hour clock but Europe uses 24-hour
still looks legit though
Damn all this new is killing me!
APPLE GIVE US SOMETHING REAL! (can't wait till tomorrow..)
Damn all this new is killing me!
APPLE GIVE US SOMETHING REAL! (can't wait till tomorrow..)
its a hack out there to change the carrier name.. this can easily be AT&T user that changed his logo to t-movile.
Aside from agreeing with the call that this is a fake pic...
Is anyone else tired of seeing the word "rock" in sense 5 on Urban Dictionary?
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rock
It just seems stupid and lazy to me in a pointless attempt to sound hip, and it's all over the place on this blog. I don't mind being inundated with Apple news, but I wish there were a filter to change that phrasing in all the posts here.
If you hate the use of the word "rock" what about the use of the word "drop" here? Get used to it because no degree of bitching will knock sense into these guys.
As in the release (date) of a new gadget? I don't like that much either, but it's not as annoyingly grating to me, personally. Also, that wasn't used in this post, so I didn't think of it. =)
So wait... they translate the options in to french, but they still toggle "on/off" which last time I checked, isn't french. Nice.
Also, e-mail should be translated as couriel, not left as e-mail. A fake, and a bad one at that.
with all these different kind of phones, is there going to be any kind of standard so that no one will have a problem using the differnt phones?
iPhoney. Fake, fake, fake. There will be no iPhones in France. Just a bunch of Croix. How's that name for a French phone.
No 3G, no GPS, no demand. Why bother?
Is this orange's iPhone - who cares?! All I know is it ain't mine and that makes me sad - losing out on eBay revenue!
PS What's French for wi-Fi then??
I´ll pass this one by... no 3G is a deal breaker for me.
Can't U guys see it's T-Mobile! (top left) So it's not Orange... Most possibly German...
Or a fake of course...
Engadget need to take their iphones out of their collective asses
I thought you couldn't compare an Apple to an Orange...
Each French iPhone come with Apples new revolutionary feature designed just for France: iSurrender
More Apple news. Seriously, haters go away and use that news filter, please, seriously. Jeez...
Useless news.