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iPhone 3G on display in Germany: alles in Ordnung

Hallo vom aus Deutschland! Since I haven't been able to participate in most of the line-waiting, MobileMe-stalling, activation-collapsing fun yesterday and today, and the 29 pages of lovely iPod touch apps are inaccessible until the touch update drops, I figured the least I could do was post a picture of one lonely iPhone 3G on display in the T-Mobile store in the Innenstadt (central city) of Osnabrück, a medium-sized city in the northwest portion of the country.

The caption reads "Das iPhone, auf das Sie gewartet haben" -- the iPhone you've been waiting for. Despite reports of mob scenes elsewhere, I can report that if you're looking for an iPhone 3G in Osnabrück you can just walk in, lay down your euros and buy it with nobody in a sleeping bag blocking your way register for one when they get back into stock (weak!).

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Hallo vom aus Deutschland! Since I haven't been able to participate in most of the line-waiting, MobileMe-stalling, activation-collapsing...
 

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Steffen

Hi Mike,

warum wart ihr denn in Osnabrück? Wolltet ihr nicht nach Bielefeld zum iPhone-Gucken? Oder gab's da nichts?

Grüße auch von Susanne und schreib mal via E-Mail
Tschüß
Steffen

August 06 2008 at 11:06 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Katapulse

Yep, i'm in Switzerland (Geneva) and simply no iphones. I have queued 2 hours friday morning, i had booked my phone 2 weeks ago and still nothing.

Went by my Swisscom shop this morning: they told me that they get 20 phones per week. I will have to wait ***A MONTH!**** before getting mine because there are 100 people in front of me in the booking list...

m****!
What's a catastrophic launch!

Ciao,
k

July 15 2008 at 7:30 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Alex

Oh yes... I'm in Osnabrück, too... At 10 o'clock I went to the t-mobile store just to hear: sorry, no iPhone but you can register.
:(

July 11 2008 at 6:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
MDK

Well, I've bought the first iPhone on the day it came out with an original 24 months T-Mobile contract in Germany. Now T-Mobile is offering me to cancel this contract by paying EUR15 for every remaining month, just to make a new contract with a 3G, well even if the details of the contract haven't really changed (exept a 3G flatrate that is none, cause they drop speed down to 64KBit after some speedy megs). Optionally I could unlock my old iPhone for extra EUR100, or I can give my old iPhone with the contract/number to someone else, so I wouldn't have to pay those EUR15/remaing month.

Even if T-Mobile had gotten more than 5000 Units delivered today (even they're telling lies 'bout 15K), they'd never sell me a 3G.

I've learned something: T-Mobile? Never! Ever! Again!
and: use only unlocked, jailbroken iPhones!

or you'll get the f in your a

(Even this is a bit offtopic, i may add:
Never use Zibri!
Apple PushServices + MobileMe = kinda googlish evil)

Thank you for your attention, you may now continue watching pr0n

July 11 2008 at 4:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Sebastian

Just by the way, it's "aus Germany", not "vom Germany", google translate sucks ;)

But no wonder, T-Mobile's the worst carrier ever, or the whole Deutsche Telekom, you can't even compare it to anything in the US, it's just the worstest. Plus, I think a lot of people are pretty angry at Telekom, they had a major stock crash in I think 2002, and ever since then it's been going down hill, I had 50 of 'em, lost about a thousand €, so I too refuse to shove any more money in the hungry and incompetent mouth of T-Mobile's, I'd much rather run it on simyo, a prepaid carrier that has no face to face customer service whatsoever, so no stupid people telling you things after a 20 minute drive that you already know. I'm just waiting for the 3Gs to show up on eBay, even though it's supposed to not happen, it will, I just feel it, someone, somewhere will find a way to buy one (or for that matter, many) without a contract, hell, people walked out of the store today with 3G and no contract, if this happens the first day, eBay's not too far away (alright, I know, the 30 day activation thing, but what's AT&T gonna do? Hunt you down and force you to sign a contract or give it back? America's a free country, or at least it's supposed to be. The year I lived there I felt pretty free though, so I just trust in the US)

July 11 2008 at 3:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ed

I've got mine here in Berlin without any hassle, either. Just walked into a shop in Schönhauser Allee and 40 minutes later I was home unboxing it. Unfortunatelly I haven't been able to connect to the iTunes Store yet. All I get is:

"We could not complete your iTunes Store request.
An unknown error has occurred (-4.)

There was an error in the iTunes store. Please try again later."

I do remember leaving the shop and thinking it was too good to be true.

July 11 2008 at 2:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Christoph

Hey Osnabrück. my hometown. I could serve you some coffee :D

July 11 2008 at 2:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Spot2

First qustion... why do you spend your holiday in Osnabrück? :D oh yeah... I forgot.. because its the best city all over the world. I life there too ;)
An the reason for no people in the T-Mobile store is very simple.... IT'S ****** T-MOBILE! :D

July 11 2008 at 2:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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DT

It's not just T-Mobile, shops are so deserted because it's T-Mobile Germany we're speaking of. I think T-Mobile USA or T-Mobile Austria (tele.ring) for instance are far better at what they do or offer.

July 11 2008 at 5:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Philipp

FAZ (the german NYT) reports that T-Mobile Germany has sold more than 15.000 units so far. A 50 % increase compared to the launch of the iPhone 2G in November 2007!

Link: http://www.faz.net/s/Rub36B71B0E8E5C46E9AFBAF4B7B12FC9C5/Doc~ECEA2C14130F14AF7954DC30BF82435A5~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html?rss_aktuell

July 11 2008 at 2:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Eric Simon Thomas

Oeps here's the link...

http://www.macnews.de/news/109672.html

July 11 2008 at 2:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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