With the release of the iPhone 3G, Apple will be in a completely new cell phone market in Japan. Apple recently posted a new iPhone 3G Guided Tour on the Japanese Apple website, undoubtedly to get the Japanese warmed up to the iPhone.
While there are no new apparent features shown, Apple does show off the character recognition (which is really slick when you see it in action).
read it here www.tuaw.com
By now, you’ve surely heard about that massive petition going around. Thousands of Canadians are absolutely outraged over the iPhone 3G plans that Rogers Wireless will be offering on July 11th and they just aren’t going to take it anymore. Some are so ticked off that they are willing to suffer through a $500 Early Cancellation Fee in protest. And it’s not just us online geeks that feel this way.
read it here www.mobilemag.com
So you buy an iPhone but you’ve already used your monthly data allowance and your carrier doesn’t have a nearby hotspot. For three months beginning with the July 11 arrival of the iPhone 3G, Tomizone is offering free Internet access through its network of Wi-Fi hotspots. But where are they?
read it here www.itwire.com
Optus has announced comprehensive plans for the upcoming 3G iPhone including an option to buy the handset outright on a pre-paid basis.
On pre-paid, the 8GB and 16GB models will cost $729 and $849, respectively. Optus is offering $30, $40 $50, $70 and $100 cap plans.
read it here www.smh.com.au
TELSTRA has finally confirmed that it will join rivals Optus and Vodafone in offering the Apple iPhone 3G.
Telstra product management group managing director Holly Kramer said the move was “great news” for Telstra customers, particularly those in regional and rural Australia, hoping to use the highly anticipated phone on the Next G network.
The Australian revealed almost two weeks ago that the dominant player would be one of the telcos offering the iPhone.
read it here www.australianit.news.com.au
Daaaamn, talk about clout. If DigiTimes’ sources are correct, then Samsung, the world’s primary supplier of flash memory, just told its non-Apple customers to suck it in favor of a “large batch of orders” it received from Cupertino. The order is said to be for 50-million “8Gb-equivalent” (we assume they mean gigabyte, or GB) NAND chips “mainly for use in Apple’s iPhone.”
read it here www.engadget.com
BEIJING, Jul 01, 2008, China Mobile Ltd. (SEHK: 0941 and NYSE: CHL) is likely to introduce the 2G iPhone to China initially, said market observers. China Mobile is in contacts with Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), which is not insisting on its revenue sharing business model, said Wang Jianzhou, chairman and chief executive officer for China Mobile, in an earlier interview.
read it here www.tradingmarkets.com
Talks about how to bring the iPhone to China have moved from hard-line negotiations to the logistics phase, Reuters is reporting.
During an interview at the Worldwide Developers Conference, Jobs hinted to CNBC that Apple might soon add China to its list of countries where the iPhone will become available. But working out the details of exactly how that will happen hasn’t been easy.
read it here news.cnet.com
Airtel’s Customer Care may have no clue about the Apple iPhone 3G, but Airtel has updated their website with a link to book the iPhone.
read it here www.santoshgs.com
Consider yourself an Apple fanatic? Gotta have the latest and greatest the moment it’s available? Ok… prove it.
read it here www.engadget.com
Vodafone India has started pre-registering customers for the iPhone 3G from Apple, promising that the device will be available soon, but the company will as yet not disclose when the device will be offered to customers.
The Indian government has as yet to issue final guidelines on the auction of 3G (third generation telephony) spectrum and licenses in India. One of the issues holding up a final decision is whether foreign companies can bid for the license.
read it here www.pcworld.com
TOKYO -(Dow Jones)- Softbank Corp.’s (9984.TO) mobile telephone unit said Monday it will start selling Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) iPhone 3G handsets in Japan at prices in line with those of the U.S. models but with lower Web-browsing charges than already available smart phones in Japan.
Softbank will start selling the iPhone from July 11 with the same free-call benefits offered on its other handsets.
read it here money.cnn.com
The thousands of consumers planning to snap up a 3G iPhone when they go on sale next month could be hit with bills of thousands of pounds if they download music or programmes overseas, industry insiders warned last week.
Apple and its partner O2 have used the unlimited download facility in much of its marketing for both the first iPhone that hit the shops last November, and the new 3G model, which will be available free on some O2 tariffs.
read it here business.timesonline.co.uk
MOBILE carrier Vodafone Australia’s pre-registration website for the iPhone has lured about 40,000 visitors daily since the telco opened the site early last week.
The website allows consumers to sign up to purchase the iPhone ahead of the July 11 launch date. It is not clear how many visitors to the site have pre-registered to purchase the phone. Optus also has an iPhone pre-registration website.
read it here www.australianit.news.com.au
Fido joined parent carrier Rogers Communications on Thursday in offering the iPhone in Canada in July, but was equally silent on pricing and availability details.
As with Rogers, Fido did reveal that it will offer the latest version of Apple Inc.’s iPhone at $199 for the 8GB model and $299 for the 16GB model, provided customers sign a three-year contract for the device.
read it here www.cbc.ca
A screenshot of a point of sale system from Apple retailer Domayne shows what may be the outright pricing for the iPhone 3G.
And so begins the month long guessing game till the introduction of the iPhone 3G launch.
read it here apcmag.com
South Korea is proud of its electronics makers and tech-savvy consumers. Samsung and LG won’t roll out the welcome mat for the new iPhone 3G
Despite the buzz generated by the June 9 unveiling of the first major makeover of Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone, there’s one place on the planet the U.S. brand isn’t likely to generate much buzz, at least in the near future: South Korea.
read it here www.businessweek.com
Like many other iPhone owners, I am in one of the 22 countries that will get the 3G iPhone on July 11th and like many other iPhone owners I will be getting the new 3G iPhone. When I first thought about upgrading I thought we would be trading in our first generation Apple iPhone for the new 3G iPhone but I have not seen anywhere say that you have to do this.
read it here www.product-reviews.net
No sooner has Steve Jobs unleashed the new 3G iPhone at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco than back home, not one but two carriers—Bharti Airtel and Vodafone—have announced, in conjunction with Apple, that they will be bringing the iconic device to India later this year. However, neither has specified the launch date or pricing of the 3G iPhone in India.
read it here www.techtree.com
SingTel and Apple have announced that they will be bringing the much anticipated iPhone 3G to Singapore later this year. But of course, this isn’t news to those of you who read my blog because I wrote an exclusive post on April 1 about the iPhone in Singapore:
My source also told me that Singtel will offer the 8GB and new 16 GB iPhone models - both are 3G enabled! He said that they are still working out the pricing details.
read it here izreloaded.blogspot.com
Brussels // R.Bollen // 9-6-2008 // Again, some new potential iPhone photos have been published. This time of the unboxing process of an NDA package that apparently cannot be opened before Tuesday the 10th of June.
It looks real to me, it has a camera on the front for video calls and it looks a bit bigger then the current iPhone. In some hours from now we will know more when Steve Jobs give his keynote at the WWDC08, San Francisco, Moscone west.
the site is in French web-mobile.net
SoftBank, the Japanese mobile company, issued what has to be one of the shortest press releases ever tonight to announce that it had signed an agreement to bring the iPhone to Japan later this year.
read it here venturebeat.com
Asia’s Hutchison Telecom has sealed a deal with Apple to sell the iPhone (News - Alert) in Hong Kong and Macau, two former colonies that are now special administrative regions of the People’s Republic of China.
In a short press release posted on its website, Hutchison Telecom has confirmed the deal and claimed that it will introduce the world’s most popular smartphone later this year.
read it here internetcommunications.tmcnet.com
Hutchinson Telecommunications has announced that it has signed an agreement with Apple to offer the iPhone in Hong Kong and Macau later this year
read it here www.ilounge.com
Apple have been seeking international deals for their iPhone for some time now, and one of the biggies has to be China, as if Apple can actually strike a deal with China then the abundance of unofficial unlocked iPhone over there just may cut back a bit, and besides there are more people in China than there are in America so makes for good business to break into the Chinese market.
read it here www.phonesreview.co.uk
