Is this Orange's French iPhone?

As we quickly approach Apple's "mums the word" event in London, the reports have been flying in concerning all sorts of carriers rocking the iPhone in the very near future. Now, we've got France's Orange joining O2's supposed UK deal and Germany's Vodafone / T-Mobile juggle. The rumors are saying we can expect a €300 French iPhone (sans 3G and unlimited data plans) on November 29th, with an announcement during the Apple Expo in Paris on September 24th, though the picture we're seeing clearly shows the blurry-as-all-get-out phone touting the T-Mobile carrier name. They say it's roaming, we say; don't sign anything yet.

[Via TechCrunch]

[John M @ Sep 17th 2007 12:57PM]

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

[SteveJ @ Sep 17th 2007 12:59PM]

It's even crazier how much Apple-haters love to read and respond to Apple news.

[John M @ Sep 17th 2007 1:04PM]

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

[Jeff @ Sep 17th 2007 1:13PM]

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.

[SteveJ @ Sep 17th 2007 1:20PM]

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.

[John M @ Sep 17th 2007 1:24PM]

Umm b/c its true....count how many apple stories there are EVERYDAY that are not even news...Drone

[Scott @ Sep 17th 2007 1:33PM]

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.

[AdamY @ Sep 17th 2007 1:42PM]

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...

[Krono6 @ Sep 17th 2007 2:03PM]

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.

[Klepto @ Sep 17th 2007 2:13PM]

Fuck you, SteveJ

[Jake @ Sep 17th 2007 2:35PM]

I agree,

Cut it out with the apple crap.

Yes the RSS feeds would be nice if the stories were not outdated.

[Shan @ Sep 17th 2007 3:31PM]

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.

[Bloobie @ Sep 17th 2007 5:20PM]

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).

[John M @ Sep 17th 2007 5:26PM]

@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

[kevjohn @ Sep 17th 2007 5:17PM]

Nice pic. Where can I send you the bill for the co-pay needed for my next eye exam?

[Preston @ Sep 17th 2007 1:01PM]

Why are the pics always blurry?!

[Andrew Davidson @ Sep 17th 2007 1:06PM]

Because if it is a decent picture all you hear is "photoshop".

[Xavier Gill @ Sep 17th 2007 1:20PM]

They were taken on iPhones

[Joe_Templeman @ Sep 17th 2007 7:41PM]

and if you have them blurry...everyone shouts photoshop with an ounce of skill!

[Mike S. @ Sep 17th 2007 1:07PM]

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...

[John M @ Sep 17th 2007 1:09PM]

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

[online.orders @ Sep 17th 2007 1:11PM]

Not to mention the word "Configuration".

[Jean-Michel Decombe @ Sep 17th 2007 1:20PM]

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.

[Ashraf @ Sep 17th 2007 6:28PM]

If you notice, you will see T-Mobile

[Quixotik @ Sep 17th 2007 1:21PM]

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...

[chezzo @ Sep 17th 2007 1:30PM]

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.

[Jean-Michel Decombe @ Sep 17th 2007 1:49PM]

Slight correction... the actual word is "courriel".

[Quixotik @ Sep 17th 2007 1:52PM]

Same diff in the end. (Thanks for the spelling correction. I kinda knew I'd gotten it wrong...)

[MJB @ Sep 17th 2007 1:12PM]

Did you even look at the photo? It says in the upper left that the carrier is T-Mobile. Probably a fake anyways!

MJB

[John M @ Sep 17th 2007 1:20PM]

Lots of "english" words

[jonathan D @ Sep 17th 2007 1:41PM]

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.

[papafew @ Sep 17th 2007 2:19PM]

it's a shitty fake

[SteveJ @ Sep 17th 2007 1:26PM]

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.

[Greg @ Sep 17th 2007 1:29PM]

shows a 12-hour clock but Europe uses 24-hour

still looks legit though

[HOLLAND @ Sep 17th 2007 1:28PM]

Damn all this new is killing me!


APPLE GIVE US SOMETHING REAL! (can't wait till tomorrow..)

[HOLLAND @ Sep 17th 2007 1:29PM]

Damn all this new is killing me!


APPLE GIVE US SOMETHING REAL! (can't wait till tomorrow..)

[lolec @ Sep 17th 2007 1:37PM]

its a hack out there to change the carrier name.. this can easily be AT&T user that changed his logo to t-movile.

[Justin @ Sep 17th 2007 1:33PM]

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.

[ug @ Sep 17th 2007 1:41PM]

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.

[Justin @ Sep 17th 2007 1:47PM]

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. =)

[Dragon of the Pants @ Sep 17th 2007 1:34PM]

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.

[mykel_os_03 @ Sep 17th 2007 2:15PM]

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?

[Constable Odo @ Sep 17th 2007 2:44PM]

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?

[bruckwine @ Sep 17th 2007 2:49PM]

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!

[bruckwine @ Sep 17th 2007 2:51PM]

PS What's French for wi-Fi then??

[James @ Sep 17th 2007 3:35PM]

I´ll pass this one by... no 3G is a deal breaker for me.

[safetymatch @ Sep 17th 2007 3:10PM]

Can't U guys see it's T-Mobile! (top left) So it's not Orange... Most possibly German...

[safetymatch @ Sep 17th 2007 3:11PM]

Or a fake of course...

[KINGREEBY @ Sep 17th 2007 3:48PM]

Engadget need to take their iphones out of their collective asses

[Acemetrical @ Sep 17th 2007 4:34PM]

I thought you couldn't compare an Apple to an Orange...