Now, we know how hot-under-the collar you guys get when we note El-Jobso's
movements in Europe, but news is news, people. Just as speculated
yesterday, it appears that the Apple honcho is working his way across Europe, moving nation-to-nation to spread the good word of iPhone wherever his New Balance touch ground. Not content with just launching the device
in London for the O2 network, the company is taking this show on the road, traveling to Berlin on Wednesday where Jobs and his turtleneck will supposedly announce a partnership for the iPhone with T-Mobile. Expect EDGE, lots of screen touching, and Steve saying, "OH-, eine weitere Sache." Then, as we hear, it's off to France for some sightseeing. Just kidding... about the sightseeing.
[Thanks,
Floris]
posted Sep 18th 2007 6:35PM
phone, iphone and rock 'n roll.
European tour continues...
The Greatest Hits to be released just before Christmas!
Skipping Ireland then? Shame, I was all ready to ignore the hype too
Why would he say "eine weitere Sache"? As demonstrated by todays lacklustre press event, there is aboslutely nothing new to say about the iPhone.
Oh and I predict €399...
I predict a lower price than the O2 UK one! The rest of the world always get a lower price than the UK in almost everything including overpriced ipods!
In the previous post "Switched On: Touched by a hacker" was that really referring to an iPod Touch, it would make more sense on an iPhone...
Or is it all a parody? :)
parody, dude... theres no mic on a itouch for starters..
Although it was a bit shady, (it was probably because it was "switched on") but It completely had me.
Engadget got worried that they'd exhausted every possible piece of trivia and minutiae concerning the iPhone and iPod and were fearful that - just for once - they'd end up with a front page entirely free of any mention of Apple profucts.
But then they came up with the masterstroke of turning to fiction instead, thus guaranteeing the welcoming presence of the Apple brand on the homepage forever.
Huzzah!
When he makes an announcement it's news. His travel plans aren't news, but I feel better knowing where he is. What's he having for dinner?
An apple.
/I'll be here all night.
Pickles and blue cheese.
why isn't that mf coming to italy?!?!?!??!
He needs to go to Hungary and Romania first.
hey, you got the football world cup, we get the iphone - seems fair to me ;)
well canada got neither,(and on the world cup part, probably won't get for a long, long time) so what do we get?
ebay: 450 $ + 50 ship + 70 euro duty fees + sim free program (anySim)
I've got in italy.(430 € total amount for a free phone)
if u have somebody coming back from usa ask him a little thing (400 $ + vat)
The iPhone is all around the world if u want...
Good...I'm so glad were tracking Steve's every step.
Seriously this is news?
He just stepped in a wad of gum. I have a live feed from his new balance shoes. Built on the same technology as the Nike + iPod, the iJobs: Shoe Edition tracks "Our Savior's" every movement, literally. In addition the iJ:SE tracks other important information such as:
Number of Steps taken during the day
Disposition of sole of shoe
Moisture content of sock
Fungal Content of foot
Tensile strength of laces
Foot Circulation
Extending mirror situated on top of shoe for "those special ladies"
It blends, but only plays Doom on "Don't Hurt Me" difficulty setting.
@Steve
But does it run Linux?
Yeah... this is getting lame. Can I get geek news sans apple once in a while? Can some of this stuff go to tuaw.com or... idk... not take up so much space?
you know, if you sift through the deep, and intensely pro-apple diction in these apple posts, you can usually find at least some bit of news. You just have to use your mind a little.
uuhhh, yep, you got it.
"OH-, eine weitere Sache."
that must be a google translation, isn't it ?
hehe
Why does he have to go to each country to announce it? Doesn't he have anything else to do?
Come on, is this news? Really? If he fell and broke his leg, then maybe. Just travelling around in Europe - not so much. That's what guys like Jobs, Gates, Ballmer, Kamprad, Branson and other corporate big shots do for a living, it's not really news.
You know the time it took to make this comment, you could have just skipped over the post.
You know *WITH the time
The Messiah come to Europe, that is good for us (I have some bottle of french champagne for him).
Of course I change it against an Ipod touch.
Richard
"French Champagne" is a bit redundant.
If it is TMobile does that mean teh phone will work on TMobile in the US?
It already does, if you know what you're doing. Mine does, anyway. :)
The only people who *notice* any relationship between T-Mobile in various countries are, with few exceptions, the shareholders.
Virtually all of the exclusive phones are only exclusive to one the US or Germany.
If your phone is SIM locked, it's locked to T-Mobile in your particular country, and T-Mobile in whatever other country just doesn't know or care about you. When I was a T-Mobile US customer, I didn't even get a roaming discount on T-Mobile in other countries.
So, no, you ain't getting * if the iPhone goes on T-Mobile DE.
this is fuckin stupid.
but when is he coming to japan muthatruckers
A long time from now. Japan only has UMTS, not GSM, so it'll probably be halfway through next year.
YEAH! me is dying of anticipation to see his appleness in real reality...uhh IIE!
by tha ways hot-under-the collar is a misunderstatemented thing to say, here we R very, very huff huffed!!
And how do you come up with such nice picsies of Stevie holding such very different flags of so many such different countries, mind mailing me one of each you have? so i can sell them on eegh beih??
Dude did you heare bout that dude that got Tazered?
man THATs news.
maybe you can post something in the realm bout the Stun gun used and which brand it is or if its commercially available so we can play with it!
@cromas:
UMTS is actually a 3G successor to the GSM standard.
Chir, I bet he knows that. The Iphone uses GSM and nothing else.
Ich bin ein iPhoner!
Grr...you stole my witty comment! Lol, was going to do the same thing haha.
I'm not normally one to yell "is this news" but seriously who the bloody heck cares where he's going? Are we going to get posts everytime he goes to another country to announce that the same thing is coming out over and over again. I like iPod/iPhone news just as much as the next guy. So I don't want to use the thing that filters them out, but at the same time I don't need to know where Steve Jobs is every minute of the day.
Canada on Friday ;)
Will somebody please get Steve a new pair of clothes. Thanks!
Damn bring it to canada already! Please Steve! Please!
maybe this is old news to everyone else...but, when I was lookig at these pics of the iphone in UK runing firmware update 1.1.1 the iphone now has a option for video out!!! I wonder what cables work for it...here is the link...look there is a wide screen setting
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/09/o2-iphone-15.jpg
i know the touch has video out but this is the first ive heard of it being activated in iphone!!!!!
he looks a liiiitttle bit like larry david in that photo.
just a liiiiittle.
You know, the other day I was reading People.com, (I know, I know heckle now) and they had a good, three-paragraph story about a restaurant that America Ferrera was eating at. And what she thought of the food, etc.
Now People is a (somewhat) respected publication, and they have a duty to reports news. More or less.
Now, engadget, a--are you ready for this?--blog, Yes, a blog, not a news service, is reporting Steve Jobs' appearance in Germany, not just to say he's there for the liverwurst. No, he's there for a reason, to announce the iPhone, which is arguably the biggest product launch all year.
So, you can say that it's not news, but if you want news you can go read about how America Ferrera doesn't like sushi on people.com.
I guess us, lesser canadian, will have to wait until the end of time before we get the iPhone! Btw... what the hell is going on in the "switched on" post this week? Is that a joke or what... why can't we comment on this?
Perhaps they turned off the comments because they knew that most of the responses would be, "WTF is this irrelevant piece of unfunny fluff masquerading as 'news' doing on a tech blog?"
Least that's what I would have said. ;)
Individual bloggers can set whether they can have comments on their posts or not; I asked that one on here a while back. It's kinda frustrating because sometimes I really want to comment on Ross Rubin's Apple bias.
Sometimes the Switched On posts start out with what seems like an interesting topic and then just end up pointlessly comparing methods with the way Apple does things even when it's not relevant or an entirely accurate view of the whole situation. I can't help thinking it's a column better suited for TUAW if it's just going to be about a constant comparison between Apple and the rest of the technology world.
Is there a Liveticker on Engadget for the German event ?
I still fail to understand why Apple is picking France as their next market when Italy has FAR MORE mobiles around, and also looks perfect for their "style over content" approach
9th of Nov for Germany as well:
http://www.apple.com/de/iphone/
http://www.t-mobile.de/iphone/
http://www.t-mobile.de/iphone/
Looks like it's official in Germany.
I hope it's Belgium tomorrow, lol
There is only one good thing of iPhone launch in Germany: more data plans. If there would be more data plans - rates would hopefully go down.
It would be interesting to see how would it pare against BlackBerry and Treo. The latter two are also terribly overpriced in Germany.
Ho, Ho, Ho, Spain cannot wait for me any more :-)
http://iphonesimfree.es
What kind of sightseeing in France? Does he like hairy women that smoke and don't shower? Must be an Apple thing...