The
rumors are true: iPhone exclusively on T-Mobile Germany starting November 9th just like in the UK. The 8GB model will go for €399 (including V.A.T and 2-year T-Mobile tariff) and will be sold through Telekom Shops of Deutsche Telekom and the T-Mobile web shop. Yes, you still get access to the WiFi iTunes Store, Visual Voicemail, and, for
better or worse, EDGE data. In fact, "by the end of 2007," T-Mobile will be the only provider in Germany to offer EDGE throughout its GSM network. Whoopee. Sorry, no mention of unlimited data or free WiFi hotspots but we'll update you as soon as we know.
[Thanks, Lars, Rahul B. and everyone who sent this in]
Read -- Apple press release
Read -- T-Mobile site
posted September 19th 2007 6:58AM
according to www.spiegel.de :
1. T-Mobile hotspots included in the plan.
2. No Itunes account necessary to activate. Credit card number is sufficent. (i think thats new but not sure...)
3. Sold only by T-Mobile. Not available in Apple Stores.
Uh.. coming to Canada any time soon?
Is it anySim or iUnlock unlockable?
What I really don't get is that since everyone agrees the iPhone is a crappy overpriced and overhyped product, sites like this keep on publishing everything that is thrown at them. Steve Jobs loves you.
Sorry for the rant ... but you had it coming:
I can't stand the "only EDGE" bullshit any longer.
Really, people ... what do the 3G phones on the market, that "trump the iPhone 10 times" really offer you?
The same stuff they've been doing for almost a decade now.
Same form factors, same keys ... wow, color screens ... music, crappy cameras (yes, they are all crappy) ... crappy browser and horrible interfaces.
Don't you get it? Apple focused on the user interface. Most of the functions the nerds here miss so much are not so essantial at all. The only thing missing in the iPhone is: PDF and office documents reading ... and even that can be argued about. It's been out for 3 months now and is the only phone that automaticly updates it's firmware it gets more features for free that way. Have you ever tried to get a software update from other companies? Most of them don't offer that so easy ...
And: EDGE is 350 kbps ... that's fast enough for browsing.
And yes: with a 3G chipset you'd have to recharge it every day, even with mild use and it would probably be larger.
Look at your "so good" Nokia N** ... all clumpsy, uninnovative clumps of plastic with a bad OS ... so many "features" cramped in that it totally destroys the interface - which is basicly the same interface from almost a decade ago - so it feel - and never got redesigned.
BlackBerry? Are you kidding me? It's a clump of lacking innovations, too.
Wow ... emails ... real, html email? Uhm, no ... can it really browse? Uhm, no ... but you can install another "browser" .. right? You see: only because you are a nerd that likes to spend hours with their devices, only to get some half-baked function working by adding 3rd party software that doesn't mean a casuall user should have do deal with that. The iPhone is meant for everybody. Not for nerds. It's not a computer. It's a phone, by the holy messia of cell phones.
Please cut the crap out and help to force all other manufacturers into a paradigma shift. And stop just buying by "horsepower".
It's not only hardware ... it's the interface that's important. And that's been forgotten for to long, thanks to you nerds that are, apparently, in the "pimp my ride, too fast too furios" target group" and are only turned on by punch lines.
The iPhone is a device which "knows" how humans work. All other handheld devices force you to learn how they work and deal with their bad, bad, bad intefaces and loading times! LOADING TIMES! ON A PHONE! WAITING FOR THE APP SWITCH - fanboys call it "multitasking".
I need 3.5G. push email and A2DP - the iPhone does none of these. What is the point of the new UI if under the hood the phone is the same tech as a cheap €100 phone? Great UI but rubbish phone - does not add-up. Apple should have taken a year longer to complete the iPhone.
That's non sense. What do you need push email for if you have a full email client that displays rich emails and html emails on a phone that is always online and automaticly downloads emails?
So Push email on a a BlackBerry is better than that?
Cheap tech? Now you're really talking bull****.
Hey, well, i live in Belgium so that means i'm BETWEEN france and germany, now my question is... here in Belgium we have a law that says no company can have exclusively a phone as "unic carrier" so in theory apple cannot come up and say "X" company can have it, does that mean we're never going to get iPhone here in Belgium? has anyone heard anything about it?? and actually, could i go to Germany or France and get one there and simply unclock it??? would it work HELLLP
With visual voice mail unique to iPhone and the partnering carriers - will these new carriers be the 'roaming networks' when we travel to these countries? I haven't checked if these are AT&T's typical international roaming partners.
hey for you engadget people, 'VAT' doesnt need the abbreviation dots :)
and urgh, still no 3G. i hope the next generation will have 3G, flash and java for the browser. also keyboard in landscape please...
the 'optimised version' of OS X is a mere gimmick of the advertising campaign. if not, by now there would've been 1000's of 3rd party programmes written for it already.
So when USA Tmobile iPhone version available in???