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iPhone coming to Germany, again on November 9th
The Guardian newspaper seems to have its sources right, as today sees Steve in Germany to announce the availability of the iPhone there. The 8Gb model will go on sale on 9th November (anyone want to bet against a November 9th launch for France being announced tomorrow?), cost €399 ($553 / £276) and will require a 2-year T-Mobile contract. T-Mobile also points out that "By the end of 2007, T-Mobile will be the only network operator in Germany to offer EDGE throughout its entire GSM network" - at least some European operators are ensuring the data technology is commonplace before offering the iPhone. There's currently no word on how much the monthly contract will cost, but I'm sure we'll hear about that shortly.
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Danny said 9:38AM on 9-19-2007
"There's currently no word on how much the monthly contract will cost, but I'm sure we'll hear about that shortly."
Unfortunately they said, that they will release the specific iPhone plans shortly before November 9th.
For us germans that means: 2 months to think about the price tag of the phone (easy decision). And then maybe 2 days to decide about about a cost plan. Nice move, you're all excited to finally buy it so you don't bother that much about the monthly costs ;-)
I'm gonna get mine anyways. Can't wait.
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WT said 9:42AM on 9-19-2007
HOW ABOUT WE TALK ABOUT LEOPARD RELEASE DATE?
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Doug said 9:49AM on 9-19-2007
Anyone notice the 'extra' icon on the iPhone screen below the 'Settings' icon? What is that??
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Dave said 9:55AM on 9-19-2007
If someone in the US buys the German T-Mobile iPhone, can they use their US T-Mobile sim card?
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Mary said 10:05AM on 9-19-2007
Doug - Wifi Store
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ce said 10:07AM on 9-19-2007
...and Orange for France tomorrow, right?
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SubGenius said 10:42AM on 9-19-2007
I think Apple is partnering with different carriers in each country to avoid the "monopoly" charge.
Had they used a single carrier for all of Europe the EU would certainly be looking into antitrust investigation.
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Paolo said 11:27AM on 9-19-2007
Damn, no one has mentioned italy yet....
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valtheWU said 11:34AM on 9-19-2007
@ wt:
just about 190 countries later...
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Ian said 12:08PM on 9-19-2007
Quote from the full announcement:
By the end of 2007, T-Mobile will be the only network operator in Germany to offer EDGE throughout its entire GSM network. EDGE accelerates the mobile data transfer rate to over 220 Kilobits per second, which makes it almost four times as fast as ISDN in fixed-line networks. With EDGE, the German market leader offers its customers 100 percent broadband – anywhere and at any time. With 20,000 HotSpots worldwide, T-Mobile is the biggest Wi-Fi provider in the world. Of those HotSpots, 8,600 are in Germany, where HotSpot users can achieve download speeds of up to 11 megabytes per second.
These guys should be in politics:
1) EDGE at 22kbs! wow, I know AT&T are useless but I get ~80kbs.
2) When I had ISDN 12 years ago it ran at 128kbps or dual channel at 256kbps so I'm not sure how they're doing the comparison calculation.
3) EVERYONE ELSE HAS MOVED TO 3G!!!!!!!! That's why they'll be the only one with full EDGE coverage.
Good grief!
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basscadet said 12:27PM on 9-19-2007
"at least some European operators are ensuring the data technology is commonplace before offering the iPhone"
actually, this data technology was commonplace a while ago and now they must reinstall it just for this handset? With a 3G model coming in 2008 I wonder how many will go after it in November.
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ktswami said 12:45PM on 9-19-2007
Looks like the new iPhone v1.1 update may have a new game icon also. There's new icon on the the springboard called "Agriff" which means attack or invasion in german.
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/09/t-mobile-gets-g.html
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ErwinP said 1:35PM on 9-19-2007
I think this MP3-File is interesting. In Berlin Jobs is talking about native 3rd-party apps. (15''25')
http://mobile-macs.de/sounds/iphone_berlin_pk.mp3
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Robert said 1:54AM on 9-20-2007
Why do Germans have to pay damn 553 bucks for the thing!!!
I'm from The Netherlands, but no way I'm gonna buy an iPhone in Germany. Not, unless Apple stops misusing the strong Euro at the moment..
Bollocks.
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