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Willkomen in Deutschland, iPhone
While poor Nik finishes a restless, cold night in Regent Street, the first European iPhones are already in the hands of eager customers in Köln (Cologne), Germany. Macnotes.de has the pictures and the story from the single-store T-Mobile midnight madness launch; online sales in Germany also commenced at midnight, and retail sales across the rest of the country are scheduled for later today. One bonus for the crowd (estimated at 300 or more) of shoppers at the introduction in Köln -- free pretzels from T-Mobile. Yum!You can see a reasonable Google translation of the Macnotes page here. To all our German readers and new iPhone owners: Es is ganz toll, das Sie konnen jetzt die iPhone Erfahrung haben; sag uns, wie es geht mit die neuen Super-Handys.
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Lorand said 12:39AM on 11-09-2007
* Willkommen in Deutschland, iPhone.
* Es ist toll, dass Sie in den Genuss des iPhones kommen, bitte sagen sie uns wie sie ihr neues Super-Handy finden.
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sebastian said 12:49AM on 11-09-2007
And please don't correct these little misstakes in your german sentences. it sounds so lovely ;)
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Michael Rose said 12:45AM on 11-09-2007
Danke schön, Lorand. Tut mir leid, das mein Deutsch so schlecht ist -- meine Lehrerin von Gymnasium wird mir mit ein Buch schlagen. (Und auch, mein Frau sagt "Ach, Schatz, du bist kein Dudenwisser.")
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Philipp said 12:57AM on 11-09-2007
a) It's: "Wilkommen in Deutschland"
b) That's a Belgium Flag!!! LoL The German one is black, red, yellow top to bottom not left to right...
Ignorant Americans... ;-) j/k
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Johannes Lindenbaum said 1:05AM on 11-09-2007
Bitte berichtigen Sie Ihr Deutsch nicht, fuer einen "native englishspeaker" ist es sehr gut. :)
Thanks again. And Hi from frosty Saskatoon, SK!
And by the way, it IS the german flag. The Belgium flag is Black, Yellow, Red on it's side. When a German flag is to be hung horizontally, that is the correct representation. :)
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kiwi66 said 1:29AM on 11-09-2007
Why is the iPhone late in Europe?
Because the americans are still not able to get the flags and german text right. Apple is not alone there ;-).
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PeaDot said 1:53AM on 11-12-2007
Just to let you know: This is NOT the belgium flag (see here: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgien) , it is the german flag but shown vertically, not (as it should be) horizontally. Micheal Rose's German is one of the best I have ever read by a none native speaker, I wish my English would be half as good. Of course, there are mistakes, but this is quite natural as German is one of the hardest languages to learn (besides Japanese of course :) ) Those cases, articles ans whatever kill you.
Und Phillip: Wo kamst Du gleich nochmal her? Amerika? Mich wundert offengestanden, daß Dein Deutsch so akzentfrei ist, bei all Deiner Ignoranz...
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Bj? said 1:41AM on 11-09-2007
Michael, you put a GRAND SMILE in my face with this article!
I'm an editor of one of the largest German's Mac Portals, mactechnews.de, and we're happy to join the iPhone Madness in the US!
Your German's great! ;-) Despite some mistakes, keep up the good
work.
All the best from Munich, Germany,
Björn
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Gaxby said 1:45AM on 11-09-2007
@kiwi66...that was funny.
Would someone post those flags so we can see the difference?
Might as well for clarification instead of bickering back and forth so we can go back to the subject matter: Wikomen in Germany...(that was intentional) but you got my point?
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FRank Krefeld said 5:07AM on 11-09-2007
Ich habe mein US Iphone schon 3 Monate und kaufe nun eins im T Shop. Ich brauche sowieso einen neuen Vertrag und ab und zu hab ich kein W Lan, sodaß EDGE ganz nett ist. Danke
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Lars said 2:56AM on 11-09-2007
So, 1575 euros for the iPhone and the cheapest two year plan option. That's over 2300 dollars (1150 a year). These prices are uncommon for Europe.
Sure, die-hard fans will get one, but I'm really curious what the tally will be at years end.
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Marcus said 3:07AM on 11-09-2007
By the way, is the price with 399,- EUR with every charge?
And our flag is with black, red, GOLD not yellow... ;)
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Cosmo Kramer said 3:26AM on 11-09-2007
- These pretzels are making me thirsty!
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Gerald said 5:21AM on 11-09-2007
Great side, nice idea, as a true apple fan (or should I say believer :-P) I am happy to see that we (Germany) are (is) now one step ahead in the international Apple community.
Your German is great! There is no reason for your German teacher to use a book other than reading in it. Thank you for honoring us, by using German!!!!!
The flag is 100% correct too.
P.S. I will not buy an iPhone ... YET ;-)
Next year I have to renew my T-mobile service plan anyway and hopefully T-Mobile will be offering a more attractive plan for me.
Anyhow: Allen neuen iPhone Nutzern meinen herzlichen Glückwunsch!
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Shahin said 5:44AM on 11-09-2007
I wonder how the French feel.
I mean, we got the iphone. The english will in a couple of hours...
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amerikanisch said 6:19AM on 11-09-2007
So can anyone tell us what happens when you grab a German iphone and try to put an US tmobile sim card? does it just tell you you have the wrong sim?
or better yet can you guys answer how it is that you decided that it was cool to fuse words together and come up with super long ones like:
Rolltreppenbenutzungshinweise
Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
or why is it that Germans "make fun" instead of have fun?
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bibi-pov said 6:25AM on 11-09-2007
Well the Frenchs feels cheated (I know I do :) ) but at the same time I had to subscribe a new contract last month, so unless the iPhone is sold for a reasonable price in its unlocked form, I'll pass and continue playing with my iTouch.
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Jamar said 7:06AM on 11-09-2007
The nice thing about T-mobile's simlock system is that yes, you can pop in a T-Mobile card from any country and it will work in any T-Mobile phone. However, if activation is still present, you will have to get around that (at least the no-activation hack doesn't bork around with the baseband radio... right?)
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Harald said 7:12AM on 11-09-2007
or better yet can you guys answer how it is that you decided that it was cool to fuse words together and come up with super long ones like:
Rolltreppenbenutzungshinweise
Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
that's because German is a synthetic language whereas English tends to be analytic ;)
Anyhow, paired with the comments one of the funniest articles on TUAW recently, nice to see that the Mac community is so international.
Regarding the german iPhone, I believe it to be immensely overpriced and thus not being able to ignite a real "internet everywhere" revolution. May be I'll get me one in a few years, when I don't have to use Telekom.
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Jamar said 7:18AM on 11-09-2007
What's wrong with Telekom? Unlike AT&T, Sprint and Verizon (especially Sprint), their customer service people are actually *supportive* of the customer (helped me out a bunch, no matter what the problem).
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