http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/ Engadget Comments for South Korea clears iPhone for sale http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/Sep 23rd 2009 1:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/(Note to the future potential 51st commenter: I hate you.)]]>Sep 23rd 2009 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/
And for those few who want or need to jailbreak it are probably already buying cheaper (which I did,) or more feature-stacked phones.]]>Sep 23rd 2009 1:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/
Aaahhh.... Need I say more?

I think I would have probably tossed the iPhone by now if Jailbreaking didn't exits.... can I get an AMEN?]]>Sep 23rd 2009 7:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/
Coming from Winmo and S60 to the iphone I was like, you can't do WHAT? Until jailbreak almost solved everything.]]>Sep 23rd 2009 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/
"no need to jailbreak"

haha

how quaint.]]>Sep 23rd 2009 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/
Most "tech savvy folks" probably can't wait to Jailbreak their device, and wait for a month before upgrading to the new OS ver. so that a Jailbreak hal already been released. I'm sorry, but the difference between the iPhone and a Jailbroken iPhone is like a difference between a dumbphone and a smartphone.
]]>Sep 23rd 2009 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/
what's Kirkare?

Can't seem to find any nfo on it....]]>Sep 23rd 2009 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/

(Quick App Switching/Killing for backgrounded apps).

]]>Sep 23rd 2009 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/Sep 23rd 2009 1:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/Sep 23rd 2009 4:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/
It's like asking if you can make a profit off water.]]>Sep 23rd 2009 1:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/XBox have been losing money for years. Apple, on the hand, is making gazillion!


]]>Sep 23rd 2009 1:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/
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would that refer to a possible CMDA iphone? verizon?]]>Sep 23rd 2009 1:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/Sep 23rd 2009 1:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/KT, which has more than 10 million WCDMA subscribers, will be selling WCDMA iPhone 3GS, definitely. ]]>Sep 23rd 2009 1:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/Sep 23rd 2009 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/Sep 23rd 2009 1:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/Sep 23rd 2009 1:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/Sep 23rd 2009 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/
There will be small group of people that will buy this phone in Korea but I highly doubt it will have widespread success... Ipod had hard time over there also..

Doesn't Verizon have any device thing....??? One maybe able to bring it here and use on V or Sprint I guess...]]>Sep 23rd 2009 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/Sep 23rd 2009 1:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/Sep 23rd 2009 1:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/Sep 23rd 2009 1:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/Sep 23rd 2009 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/Sep 23rd 2009 1:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/Sep 23rd 2009 1:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/
Still, considering a lot of touch phones there are on par with the iPhone, I don't think Apple will see any major profits. I think the major reason why is because Korean telecom companies have oversaturated the market, and the only way they can profit nowadays is through ridiculous charges. They'll end up charging for all if not most apps, and they'll probably restrict app downloads to authorized ones. But this is just my 2 cents :-\]]>Sep 23rd 2009 2:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/]]>Sep 23rd 2009 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/
http://gsmworld.com/roaming/gsminfo/cou_kr.shtml

Blow your nose and get it out of your heads, fanboys, a CDMA / EVDO iPhone is a pipe dream for now.

Also worth mentioning that both SK and KT have roaming agreements with AT&T and T-Mobile in the USA.

WCDMA != CDMA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCDMA
]]>Sep 23rd 2009 2:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/Sep 23rd 2009 2:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/What you guys are using right now in United State is what South Korean people used about 5 years ago.
However, since iPhone has a lot of possibilities, I can't wait to see~~!!!

]]>Sep 23rd 2009 2:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/Sep 23rd 2009 3:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/
you mean a psp right?]]>Sep 23rd 2009 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/
"But the Pre..."

"WinMo 6.5 and 7 will..."

"At least with Android..."

Got you started, now we need about 300+ more of those.]]>Sep 23rd 2009 2:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/WCDMA is not the same as CDMA/EVDO. In short, this is the same exact iPhone. There's no such thing as CDMA/EVDO iPhone.]]>Sep 23rd 2009 2:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/
The reason everyone's confused by this is that SKT and KTF both first had a CDMA network for their 2G and initially for 3G.

But, the Korean gov't opened up the 2.1GHz Band and said that only UMTS (=WCDMA/HSPA) could be used on this spectrum. Thus, SKT and KTF now have both EVDO AND UMTS.]]>Sep 23rd 2009 2:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/
Today, the Korean Communications Commission basically gave Apple the ok to sell their phone as is. (Btw, Apple's the first company to get this grant.) So, people will be able to use Google Maps or Find my iPhone in Korea and removed the last obstacle for KTF to sell the iPhone. That's a huge win for Apple because they won't need to modify much, if anything at all on their iPhone. This is also a win for a foreign company cause this is the first since exception to this rule. Hopefully this will open the door for other companies to enter the market and bring other nice phones here as well.

So, the next step is to wait for KTF to reveal pricing plans for the iPhone. Early rumors say that there will be 3 plans in a range from 40,000KRW~90,000KRW/month (roughly $33.49~$75.35 based on today's exchange rate)

I'm kinda worried about the retail price of the phones themselves, though. Korea typically charges insane prices for the phones themselves. To compare, the Bold's retail price is around 700,000KRW, or $586.76.
(Btw, I'm only picking on the Bold because there's not much else to compare with, in terms of foreign phones.)

Now I gotta figure out whether I'm going to break my contract and switch to KTF...]]>Sep 23rd 2009 2:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/
Korean phones have always been good quality but because they come out with so many different models, so often, it seems that they are in such a hurry to package a phone and release it to the market, that it comes out as 'good' not 'great'.

I hope the prices decrease as well. I can't believe the debt that young people go into just to buy a mobile phone.]]>Sep 23rd 2009 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/
I'm sick of these articles, someone show me some real proof. By proof I mean let me walk into an SK telelcom or KTF store and have them activate my iPhone 3gs. No more of these stupid web rumors claiming a date. In June, people said "July, definitely". In July, people said, "August, we're sure of it". In August, people said, "It's seriously gonna happen in September."]]>Sep 23rd 2009 4:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/Sep 23rd 2009 5:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/Sep 23rd 2009 6:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/Sep 24th 2009 5:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/
So... Korea creates a whitelist of IMEIs, consumers have absolutely no idea what their IMEIs are, and we cant register a foreign IMEI into the system. It's a perfectly locked down system. ]]>Sep 24th 2009 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/
waitaminute...]]>Sep 23rd 2009 5:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/
Just to make it easier to understand,
SK Telecom, Korea Telecom = Optus, Telstra, Vodafone, AT&T, T-Mobile
LG Telecom = Verizon (CDMA only)]]>Sep 23rd 2009 6:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/Sep 23rd 2009 7:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/south-korea-clears-iphone-for-sale/Sep 23rd 2009 7:48AM