iPhones iPhones Everywhere, Oh my

[Cody Overcash]

It has been announced, the iPhone will be officially sold in countries all over the world. Vodafone has announced that they will be selling the iPhone in ten countries. They fail to give a time frame or any real details except for the country names:

• Australia
• Czech Republic
• Egypt
• Greece
• Italy
• India
• Portugal
• New Zealand
• South Africa
• Turkey

And those lucky folks in Italy are going to get a choice jealous between carriers since Telecom Italia (TIM) has announced that they too will be selling the iPhone. Oh and if you're curious, TIM also didn't provide any real details.

[MacNN via marketwatch]

[smirkis]

doesn't egypt not have edge tho? or one of them main countries i reada bout not using edge.

lucky countries! welcome to the club!

[tattoojack]

this will push apple into the trillions as far as profits are concerned.

[abujala]

it was sellng for about 15oo usd in egypt last saturday

[krusher]

wesome. Finally.
As soon as it comes to India, I m going to vergenise mine, take it apple store and get me a new piece as this one got many a scratches. Hope that works.

I m bit sad too. Now everyone in my college is going to have an iPhone. No big deal about the current few studs who have em now.
:-(

[ctsd]

Australia will also have a choice between two carriers with Optus slated to carry the iphone as well..

[vysionous]

Thats ******** news. The hype is so strong that every drooling bastard will have an iPhone and it will be abused. Apple needs to do something to separate the men from the boys.

[Kaloyan]

Thats ******** news. The hype is so strong that every drooling bastard will have an iPhone and it will be abused. Apple needs to do something to separate the men from the boys.

Haha Apple has has different interests they revolve around a little thing called money

[reeko]

the more people with iphones, the happier i will be. after using nokias and sony ericsson's for years, the iPhone is a god send.

i would love the iPhone to kill off its competitors.

[soupboy]

Not sure how this is going to work in Australia as the only carrier to offer EDGE data is Telstra and they are on the way to phasing out support for it.
At the moment I use a jailbroken phone on telstra prepaid but was expecting telstra to get the contract for the 3g version as optus/vodaphone don't have a faster enough network for it.

[jutendouji]

I thought I'd add, I've been hearing rumors that it's coming to Argentina soon as well, probably when the 3G version hits. When and if it does, it'll probably be locked to the "Personal" network (That's Telecom's Wireless branch). It makes sense, considering it's the only of the 3 local networks that has 3G.

[cheekydevil1234]

Not sure how this is going to work in Australia as the only carrier to offer EDGE data is Telstra and they are on the way to phasing out support for it.
At the moment I use a jailbroken phone on telstra prepaid but was expecting telstra to get the contract for the 3g version as optus/vodaphone don't have a faster enough network for it.

This is not true, i am on vodafone and it works fine on edge but Australia is not going to get the 1st gen Iphone, they will be getting a 3G version of it. As far as optus and vodafone they have fast enough network for the phone it is just not "as quick" as telstra but in saying that Telstra Australia has the fastest 3g or next g tech in the world. (i still hate telstra but)

[soupboy]

This is not true, i am on vodafone and it works fine on edge but Australia is not going to get the 1st gen Iphone, they will be getting a 3G version of it. As far as optus and vodafone they have fast enough network for the phone it is just not "as quick" as telstra but in saying that Telstra Australia has the fastest 3g or next g tech in the world. (i still hate telstra but)

Vodaphone and Optus offer 2G WAP connetions for the iphone but Telstra are the only network to actually offer EDGE data which is a 2.5G connection.

I started on Optus with WAP connections but after changing to Telstra and actually being able to get EDGE speeds the difference is much more noticable. As far as I've found out from friends working for Telstra, Telstra are getting the 3G version as they've said the entire time that they won't stock it unless it works on the NextG network as they're planning to phase out the 2G network.

So I was assuming that Vodaphone was getting the original version on the 2G network?

[ctsd]

This is not true, i am on vodafone and it works fine on edge but Australia is not going to get the 1st gen Iphone, they will be getting a 3G version of it. As far as optus and vodafone they have fast enough network for the phone it is just not "as quick" as telstra but in saying that Telstra Australia has the fastest 3g or next g tech in the world. (i still hate telstra but)

Have to agree with you cheekydevil1234, I'll be paying out my contract with them and switching over to Vodafone when time comes! (Their voice recognition service does my head in!)

[MattMac]

I actually heard this on the radio last night a work. They said that Australia was getting the phone on Vodaphone. Came on to start a thread and saw this, haha.
But this is great. I can't wait, but am sure as hell aint going with Vodaphone. Worst network in my opinion.

Australia will also have a choice between two carriers with Optus slated to carry the iphone as well..

I haven't heard this, but would be great. I have Optus pre paid, NO MORE UNLOCKING! Yay, haha.

Vodaphone and Optus offer 2G WAP connetions for the iphone but Telstra are the only network to actually offer EDGE data which is a 2.5G connection.

I started on Optus with WAP connections but after changing to Telstra and actually being able to get EDGE speeds the difference is much more noticable. As far as I've found out from friends working for Telstra, Telstra are getting the 3G version as they've said the entire time that they won't stock it unless it works on the NextG network as they're planning to phase out the 2G network.

So I was assuming that Vodaphone was getting the original version on the 2G network?

I don't think they would release the 2G version here. Would be useless, its being phased out so quick, by all the networks. All a bout 3G here down-under.
The only phones Telstra sell now work on the NextG network... 2G and 2.5G will be gone in the next few years, if not earlier.

This is not true, i am on vodafone and it works fine on edge but Australia is not going to get the 1st gen Iphone, they will be getting a 3G version of it. As far as optus and vodafone they have fast enough network for the phone it is just not "as quick" as telstra but in saying that Telstra Australia has the fastest 3g or next g tech in the world. (i still hate telstra but)

Yeah man, the only service that supports EDGE in Australia is Telstra. Optus and Vodaphone both use GPRS.

Again, I am convinced that they will only release 3G here, but I could be wrong. Guess we just have to wait for the details hu?

[ishan993]

well i'm in india n i already have iphone.I dont think the new iphone with 3G will work here because we dont have a 3g network.

[damien6]

DUDE!!! finally coming to india!!! thats good and bad in a way....coz now every other idiot here is gonna have the phone.....that sux.
but at least i can get mine fixed proeprly now!!

[jrentzke]

Oh yeah! (doing the dance of joy...)

South Africa

[cartman13]

America Movil just signed a deal with apple....

[GR81]

Vodafone New Zealand had better do something about their data plans then... it's almost 3rd world at the moment!