A few hundred Germans become Europe's first "official" iPhone owners

After handing out hot coffee, tea and pretzels for those waiting outside, T-Mobile's well lubricated and exceptionally tanned staff in Cologne threw its doors open to Europe's first "official" iPhone owners. Of course, people the world-over are already toting Apple's finest courtesy of those firmware hacks and unlocks. In fact, the 1.1.2 firmware found on the UK and German iPhones is already hacked. Judging by the buzz in the Hackint0sh forums, the new Jailbreak is seemingly just hours away from release. Fanatics of the hardcore persuasion can check the orderly mayhem in the video after the break.

[Via Pocket-lint, image courtesy of iFun.de]

[Ghen Posted Nov 9th 2007 9:00AM]

Look, I've got a normal eyebrow and a white eyebrow. How do I do it? Magic!

Look, I've got broad shoulders and a vagina. How do I do it? Magic!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2007 9:05AM]

I live in Germany and i can't understand the hype about the *Phone. Especially because the contracts are unpayable for a normal person, and the relation between price and performance is realy poor. So I'm not going to buy one... Take that Jobs!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2007 9:09AM]

Don't anyone act like this wasn't coming...

2 girls, 1 iPhone

[IndiaTech Posted Nov 9th 2007 12:49PM]

Dude... Not Cool... I almost puked...

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2007 1:14PM]

Anyone has the link to a full-length video of that, er, I mean the "cup" version?

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2007 1:15PM]

I mean, it's for a sociology project.

[aolbites Posted Nov 9th 2007 1:29PM]

2girls1cup.com duh

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 12th 2007 8:20PM]

Jesus. Once you see something, it's not possible to unsee it. Think about it for a while before watching the video.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2007 9:17AM]

you can also get iPhones now in Denmark via parallel import from France, so you can unlocked iPhones legally :O). Only thing is that you get menues in english and no visual voicemail.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2007 9:31AM]

re: orange germans: Here's an article written for the "germany survival bible" on occasion of the 2006 soccer championship, educating foreigners about the peculiarities of everyday german life. http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,414228,00.html

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2007 9:35AM]

Wait, this is Germany? Coulda fooled me. Looks more like a bunch of douchebags from the Jersey Shore.

[Geoff Posted Nov 9th 2007 9:36AM]

Their women scare me.

[Bad Beaver Posted Nov 9th 2007 9:40AM]

Please be assured, their women scare *them* too.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2007 9:37AM]

Who knew they had tan Germans?

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2007 9:38AM]

Who knew they had tan Germans?

[sprintermatt Posted Nov 9th 2007 9:42AM]

I think her eyebrows are done in Sharpie.

[sprintermatt Posted Nov 9th 2007 9:44AM]

Wait, I got it!

It's the crying Jesus from the Madonna "Like a Virgin" video! AGGHHHHH!!!!!

[Bazanime Posted Nov 9th 2007 10:00AM]

So leather-face did have a sister!

[Bad Beaver Posted Nov 9th 2007 10:24AM]

Don't let Michael Bay hear that, we might still have a chance to doge that movie.

[Bad Beaver Posted Nov 9th 2007 10:45AM]

"dodge"
Coffee! Tan lotion!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2007 10:41AM]

iTan. The new handheld tanning companion.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2007 11:03AM]

T-Mobile's well lubricated and exceptionally tanned staff in Cologne threw its doors open to Europe's first "official" iPhone owners

I thought England was in Europe?

[Bad Beaver Posted Nov 9th 2007 11:22AM]

Behold the magic of time zones ;)

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2007 2:41PM]

If you clicked through, these were sold at midnight, well before the UK's launch. I.e., first.

Thomas

[toptekjon Posted Nov 9th 2007 11:25AM]

Thanks Engadget! I was just on my way to dictionary.com to look up "Euro Trash" and you saved me the trip
!!

[andrewh12 Posted Nov 9th 2007 5:43PM]

What Europeans would that be? All I can see are Turkish non-European women and some asian guy. Oh, wait, I think there's a real German man in the background there! Look for the white spot.

Oh, and in Europe we would never call you Amero-Trash - we just call you Americans.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2007 11:27AM]

Hey, don't they speak...ahhh...German in Germany?

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2007 12:12PM]

Is this true - that you have to sign up contract with T-Mobile DE before you will get the box with iPhone? Then you have to pay for the monthly rate and cannot hack this device without T-Mobile activation ... Does anyone know?

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2007 12:12PM]

I wouldn't mind touching that taller chick a little.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2007 12:17PM]

Hey, go easy. Maybe she just got a skin graft from a mummy.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2007 12:21PM]

By Darwin's beard! It looks like someone got a 100 year old leather handbag and wrapped it round her face!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2007 12:56PM]

I'm sorry, but those people are freakishly, scarily over-tanned to the point that's all I see.

[tripp1 Posted Nov 9th 2007 1:04PM]

Almost 70 comments and no opinions on the actual article.. This site is turning into a gab fest. Nerds love to talk crap about girls they can never get.

[Lockheed Posted Nov 11th 2007 12:08AM]

DO NOT WANT!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2007 12:59PM]

Wow, tan much?

[oink Posted Nov 9th 2007 1:09PM]

European Girls are Hot.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2007 1:18PM]

i don't care if she's orange, the chick behind jamie farr's (see wes' comment above) cross-dressing grandson is cute.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2007 1:27PM]

I followed the "Soft Leather IPhone Case" advertising link at the bottom of the page and it took me to Jamie Farr's tranny granddaughters mein space page.

[Pipp Posted Nov 9th 2007 1:28PM]

I thought the EU didn't allow contracts on cell phones anymore.. Or is that just France? Why would anyone in Germany buy into a contract when they could just get it from somewhere else without one?

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2007 2:10PM]

Thats Witchee-poo!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2007 2:42PM]

Just to point that fact out: Those aren´t average germans.

One day, all germans agreed that the ugliest people in the country have to work at T-Mobile. For they can call everybody on the phone and don´t need to be seen face to face by everybody else. Or they just have a blind manager in Cologne - that might be possible, too...

;)

[Sphynx Posted Nov 9th 2007 3:50PM]

Eyyh, hab isch krasse iPhone... und war isch vieeeel zu lange in Solarium

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2007 10:39PM]

what's with that freakishly long finger attached to the freakishly orange?

[Hardcore1 Posted Nov 9th 2007 4:25PM]

I wonder if I can get a Dana Farber Cancer Institute franchise to reap the loot from German fake tan patients.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2007 6:23PM]

A little too much tanning bed...for everyone? I dont get it, you dont look good all crispy lol, there is something to be said for fair white skin, or that smooth ebony, but crispy just reminds me of KFC.

Do I care you have an iphone..lol no, do I care your tan is bad? Yes, that’s a disgrace lol.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2007 6:39PM]

C'mon, you guys...I know most of us wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crackers....but watch the orange tanning spray stains on the sheet honey! These are 1,000 thread count!

Faslane

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2007 6:40PM]

And what's up with the 3rd and 4th "white" eyebrows?

[supermarioman50 Posted Nov 10th 2007 2:31AM]

That girl's face is disgustingly shiny, haha!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 10th 2007 2:26PM]

Is this true - that you have to sign up contract with T-Mobile DE before you will get the box with iPhone? Then you have to pay for the monthly rate and cannot hack this device without T-Mobile activation ... Does anyone know?

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 12th 2007 2:59PM]

Is that an umpa lompa?