France finally gets the iPhone

uh...I think you need to get your french fixed...

How about

"Bienvenue dans la famille iPhone, nos amis françaises"

And what about the laws tha prevents companies in France to profit in such a monopolistic way like Apple + ATT do in the US? How did they solve that!

Ciao! :)

@speedup: Not expensive at all. All the unlocking community would need to do is buy one unlocked phone and then gut it for its contents.

This is great news.

Any news about when it will be launched in the Netherlands?

I'm french and I'm fond of France AND USA. strange isn't it ? (for totally differents reasons, one day I will merge both)

(and UK of course, these... hu.. nice people got an apple store in london, I'm so jealouuuus :) )

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990 euro for a phone is expensive. even for me. I'm not used to see that price for a superbe phone in shops (maybe I don't go in good shops :) )

fortunately, I'm already a customer of "Orange".

strange time to eat an orangeous apple.

Here in Finland all top-level Nokias cost around 900 euros at the time of their release. This has been true for all communicators and all the luxury 8xxx series phones. The N95 started out at around 700e. Furthermore, phones can only be sold together with service plans if they are 3G. Which means Finland will probably not see an iPhone before a 3G version is developed and brought to the market. Luckily I got mine for 285e from the US.

At last, an Apple and an Orange are working together, despite their differences...

Though the French aren't as litigation prone as Americans, I wouldn't be surprised if the pricing, if correct, generated another lawsuit or even the French government, if not the EU looking into Apple's and Orange's business practices... It shouldn't be ok to so obviously try to circumvent a consumer protection law.

Enfin!

I would rather write : "Bienvenue dans la famille iPhone, amis français !"

;-)

“Bienvenue dans la famille” :-)