macbidouille.com — Macbidouille.com received some news on the topic from insiders: Orange and Vodaphone still in the race, 2 majors problems in the negotiations and battery consumption problems, linked to the inclusion of 3G for the european version of the iPhone. (article in french)
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Summary in EN: Macbidouille.com received some information about the European release of the iPhone. Their sources are sufficiently good for them to decide to release the information.To start, Apple are still in discussion with Orange and Vodaphone. Orange seems favorite, but discussions block on two points. The first, not such a problem, Apple wants to sell the phone at 700? (940$) to the operators, leading to a selling price of 500? (670$) with a 24 month contract. The second problem, more serious, is that Apple was the operator to buy a big number of phones as first order. Vodaphone isn't fundamentally against, but Orange isn't prepared to write a 9 digits check.So things are still unsure, and furthermore the European iPhone isn't ready. It seems sure that it will be a 3G phone. This is creating autonomy problems, so ...