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- pcronin, on 05/06/2008, -10/+52no Canada? wtf?
- yeahright, on 05/06/2008, -0/+22Uh, Rogers confirmed it was bringing it to Canada last week...
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/04/29/its_ ...
PS. We don't have Vodafone in Canada... - supermanred, on 05/06/2008, -2/+21ZeroNeo, the iPhone is a hot item in India already. I suggest you stop watching CNN which makes every country in the world look like the third world and America the greatest country on earth. Other countries do have people able to afford a bloody 400 dollar phone.
- cmer, on 05/06/2008, -5/+24Canada is the worst when it comes to mobile technology. At this rate, Borat's Kazakhstan will get it before us!
- LemmingJesus, on 05/06/2008, -0/+14Buried for not taking third grade English.
- OSJunky, on 05/06/2008, -4/+16This also means that Apple is no longer going carrier exclusive. TIM also will carry the iPhone in Italy. Telstra will also carry it in Australia.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/iphone_goes_global_ ... - johnpaul191, on 05/06/2008, -1/+12India is one of those countries where a lot of the population falls on extreme financial situations. i generalize, but the poor are very poor and the wealthy are insanely wealthy. The wealthy people would not think twice about $600 or even $1600 if it was something they thought they wanted.
- exonyte, on 05/06/2008, -4/+14HIGH-FIVE!
- supermanred, on 05/06/2008, -2/+11Im in Canada, they are rumoring to be selling it here soon for $399 with a 3 year contract at $97 dollars a month.
I went to the US, bought one for $399 and use a "pay-as-you-go" sim card for $24 dollars a month.
Suck it, Rogers. - srikanthp, on 05/06/2008, -2/+11Heh heh, lots of Indians already own the iPhone. Even if it is a brick and does not support their carrier. It is a status symbol. Imported from the US of A. Well, why not? After all, if you can have an American salary, why can you NOT afford the iPhone?
- delau, on 05/06/2008, -2/+10All the fanboys down here in NZ own hacked iphones already. It's pretty simple with vodafone.
- jessestorm, on 05/06/2008, -7/+15Canada?
- geekchic, on 05/06/2008, -0/+7Not surprising - as there isn't a company called Vodaphone to offer coverage.
Try switching to Vodafone instead. - aamir2, on 05/06/2008, -1/+7TakBir, normally when you don't care about a story you don't bother clicking the link and you surely do not post in the thread.
- HorseloverFat8, on 05/06/2008, -0/+6In Australia? Uh, no it doesn't.
- deadmantalkin, on 05/06/2008, -1/+6So true. Also, Vodafone's price is rumored to be about Rs. 28000 (about $700), while the iPhone can be bought unlocked in any of the key metro cities for about Rs. 20000 (about $500). Why would anyone shell out the extra cash, even if might well be the 3G version? Plus, Indians aren't ga-ga over the iPhone anymore. These guys are way too late in introducing the iPhone. It has kinda lost the shiny mojo it had when it first launched, even though it is still a fantastic and altogether sexy device.
- ttntyler, on 05/06/2008, -1/+6http://micro.newswire.ca/release.cgi?rkey=16042925 ...
- supermanred, on 05/06/2008, -2/+7Why ***** Apple? They havent really been fighting against the whole "unlock" thing... :)
- rickcarson, on 05/06/2008, -0/+5Actually, there are senior executives at Telstra on record as saying that they don't think much of the iPhone and they aren't interested.
They are decommissioning the Edge network. This does kind of make the current iPhone a non-starter from their point of view, while simultaneously having the benefit of torqing off a bunch of people in rural communities who won't get 3G access, and thus will be phoneless when Edge is yanked (sic) out from under them.
Telstra - maximising evil since 1999 - pcronin, on 05/06/2008, -0/+4"rogers confirmed"
HA
las time rogers actually confirmed something, was the bringing back of the 60GB/month (up and down combined) limits on their crap ISP service.
I've had "confirmations" from rogers about a good many products and services over the years. They either out and out LIED to get the sale, or one department said yes, and the other department said no.
"The barrier to the iPhone in Canada is not Apple," said Michael Geist, Canada research chair of Internet and e-commerce law at the University of Ottawa. "Rather, it is the lack of wireless competition that [...] leads to pricing that places Canadians at a significant disadvantage compared with other developed countries."
Dr Geist is correct. we NEED another company to come in, put up their own towers, and offer proper cell service.
what passes for service from bell and rogers here is deplorable
if there was ONE company that came in and said "we offer x y and z, and have NO affiliation with bell or rogers" and were truthfull about it, there would be a mass exodus from bell/rogers. (especially in Atlantic Canada, where NBTel was once a world leader in telcom, only to be swallowed by bell and it's "WTF do customers think they are" attitude)
Telus is bell.
Virgin Mobile is bell
Fido is rogers
there is NO escape. - bj00rn, on 05/06/2008, -1/+4There are some odd markets there... What about scandinavia :(
- metara, on 05/06/2008, -0/+3YOU go last? Try living in Eastern Europe : !
- supermanred, on 05/06/2008, -0/+3Buy it, unlock it (use iJailbreak on your mac it is a one-button, 30 second task)
then use any SIM card that is compatible with an "unlocked GSM phone"
You would have to find a trustworthy seller on eBay who isn't going to gouge you. Best bet would be to have a relative in the US buy one for you and ship it over. - inactive, on 05/06/2008, -2/+5out of that 1illion plus onl to 50 million have the disposable income for such spending. even then its quite a sizeable chunk.
- exonyte, on 05/06/2008, -5/+8Canada eh?
- defaultdigger, on 05/06/2008, -0/+3No
- hereisjohnny, on 05/06/2008, -2/+5How about Latin America!? We always go last : (
- techgerm, on 05/06/2008, -0/+3More evidence that iPhone carrier exclusivity is dead:
CNN: iPhones for Vodafone — and Telecom Italia, too
http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/05/06/ip ... - wildmannz, on 05/06/2008, -1/+3Yeah - I'm not so sure about TIM - and DEFINITELY don't believe that Telstra has got the iPhone. Otherwise - why wouldn't Vodafone get the UK as well?
Good news though. More iPhones for everyone - and more European countries will be added during the year. - sedawk, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2"The announcement that came out a week or so ago stated that Apple would not allow them to give any more information than the fact the iPhone is coming this year."
That would be a NO. For your education the announcement is posted below. No where does it mention Apple "not allowing" Rogers to give anymore information.
TORONTO, April 29 /CNW/ - Ted Rogers, President and Chief Executive Officer of Rogers Communications Inc. today issued the following statement:
We're thrilled to announce that we have a deal with Apple to bring the iPhone to Canada later this year. We can't tell you any more about it right now, but stay tuned.
END - metara, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2Congraualations Apple, just keeping me in business selling unlocked iPhones in Eastern Europe (Y)
- heystoopid, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2Alas the evil Vodafone in 2005 has established a joint partnership with a Mexican based América Móvil so it will probably be activated on that particular network in South America proper !
- Rauby, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2I agreed. WTF Apple. What about rest of Europe (Union)?
- rowlodge, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2good for them, no advantage for me though.
- troelsbay, on 05/06/2008, -6/+8That's some kind of fish, right?
- OSJunky, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F ...
Um, yeah TIM is officially (only had to read the link) in and Telstra has been shooting hints for months - Shreyasva, on 05/06/2008, -4/+6time to buy some tents and camping equipment
- xeos, on 05/06/2008, -3/+5Oh come on. MALAYSIA!
- karolisonline, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2eh.. what about other European countries? This is good example why google is more successful then yahoo or microsoft is so successful in OS. You have to be friendly with everyone. It is not nice to let something to somenone and deny from another.
- TopDigger19, on 05/06/2008, -1/+3Bell is cdma, but ya, either way, canada sucks balls for wireless providers and data rate costs
- dalesmatrix, on 05/07/2008, -0/+2I wonder if apple can encourage vodaphone Australia to have a more aggressively priced data plan. Currently it's $49.95 for 300MB data only(+ your normal monthly phone plan) I'm still hoping Three carry it here in Australia, as that's the only way I'm going to be able to use the iPhone with a decent data plan here.
- Ocelot13, on 05/06/2008, -1/+3i think it in greenland.
- mrthebunny, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2Of course, by doing this you're losing 2 of iPhone's greatest features (IMHO) :
- Visual voicemail (ok it's a gadget, but it's a nice gadget!)
- Internet wherever you go by EDGE (unless you're prepared to pay an astonishing bill...)
So apart from the "brag-to-your-friends" factor, why didn't you just get an iPod Touch?
(ohandyoudovoidthewarrantybutwhocaresreallythatsjustsmalldetails...) - Zippo, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2I don't see much in the way of progress in Canada for the iPhone until a 3G iPhone is released... and even then, you can bet your ass that Bell and/or Rogers is going to make the iPhone ridiculously expensive.
- luchid, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2From my experience, lots of people here in Argentina have one, unlocked and fully running on all three carriers. Some (like me) had to install the Appsupport patch from Installer to fix stupid technical decisions by one of the carriers (Claro) regarding Caller ID, but everything else works perfectly.
- waz67, on 05/07/2008, -0/+2Doesn't anyone else think that it's complete and utter BS that I can't just buy an iPhone or any other phone for that matter, and put it on whatever carrier I want (as long as the network supports that type of device that is)? Yeah, I know I can jailbreak it or whatever, but it's the principle of this that I find abhorrent.
- supermanred, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2What?
- KaiserArny, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/29/iphone-finally- ...
- mightycbu, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2no official iPhone for the Netherlands :'(
but they already swarm here unofficially! - MxM111, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2Why is it cool that you do not care?
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