Post by trog @ 03:03pm 12/06/08 | 51 Comments
After some rumours were spread and quickly debunked recently, Optus are moving to make sure people know what is going on with their iPhone plans. I just got some nice SMS spam about it, pointing me to www.yesiphone.com.au. You can pre-register for information and for $100 (or $50 if you're already an Optus customer), you'll get "secure priority queuing" (which is asterixed up with a warning saying its no guarantee you'll actually get a phone, of course).
No other pricing - indeed, no other useful information - is actually on the site yet, so I think they're just trying to prepare for the onslaught and get themselves some good search engine ranking with this early announcement.
No other pricing - indeed, no other useful information - is actually on the site yet, so I think they're just trying to prepare for the onslaught and get themselves some good search engine ranking with this early announcement.
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Posted 03:04pm 12/6/08
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Posted 03:23pm 12/6/08
See iPhone thread. But those who have iPod touches and crappy phones or jailbroken iPhones will generally be into the whole thing... Those with decent phones like N95 etc won't generally be interested in getting one but thats a generalisation.
Posted 03:47pm 12/6/08
Posted 04:03pm 12/6/08
From a press release by Vodafone Italy
€499 = $773.64AU
€569 = $882.17AU
So, it could be $800 for 8GB and $900 for 9GB... It could also be a lot different.
last edited by mongie at 16:03:01 12/Jun/08
Posted 04:09pm 12/6/08
If mongie is on the money then Australia is once again getting fkd. But I doubt that they'd sell them for 3 times the price when the iPods were fairly well priced compared to US (i think).
Posted 04:12pm 12/6/08
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Posted 04:45pm 12/6/08
from the Vodafone Italy website via Babelfish.
http://iphone.vodafone.it/?tk=9616%2Cc&ty_key=iphone.vodafone.it
Posted 04:53pm 12/6/08
Posted 05:00pm 12/6/08
Posted 05:04pm 12/6/08
Early market phone tech is so overpriced hey. $800 for a phone, that's more than a f*****g PS3 at launch. They just give us a false concept that you can get one at an affordable price by hiding the rest of the cost in long-term provider contracts.
I'm really interested in the applications of the iphone, particular because I kind of see it as the start of mainstream mobile communication moving away from timed rate phone calls and ridiculous priced text messaging towards more universal internet applications, voip, msn etc and data usage based plans .
I think it'll be a while before I'll pick one up though. There's no way I could justify spending that much on a phone.
last edited by Dan at 17:04:57 12/Jun/08
Posted 05:18pm 12/6/08
HAHA that puts everything into an entirely different perspective.
Posted 05:36pm 12/6/08
yet from what i read the iphone does not support video calls?
Posted 06:41pm 12/6/08
Isn't it where you can see how many messages you have?
Posted 06:43pm 12/6/08
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Posted 07:04am 13/6/08
That's why I re-posted it - quote + link to where it came from. Babelfish translations are always amusing
Posted 07:31pm 30/6/08
http://www.telstra.com.au/iphone
Posted 07:51pm 30/6/08
Posted 07:54pm 30/6/08
Posted 07:55pm 30/6/08
You get unlimited telstra hotspots though which is nice.
Posted 07:59pm 30/6/08
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Posted 08:35pm 30/6/08
Press release, emphasis is mine:
Posted 10:06pm 30/6/08
Spose its all under NDA and all that, but can we expect some cool Ausgamers or Gamearena type web apps in the future??? Not sure what'd it actually incorporate.. but still it seems like an interesting platform to develop for
Posted 11:15pm 30/6/08
Posted 11:17pm 30/6/08
Boxhead knows now so I might as well tell everyone.
We are releasing a branded iphone. it is going to do all the cool things an iphone do but cost half as much. to find out more check out www.nokia.com
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Posted 08:42am 01/7/08
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Posted 10:59am 01/7/08
Personally I can see Telstra providing 2 options but, Google Maps will be bury deep in the options somewhere so most people will just use Whereis.... but I'm guessing here.
Posted 01:24pm 01/7/08
Telstra spokesman Peter Taylor could not confirm if iTunes would be available as a default application to Telstra subscribers. But he said the Telstra iPhone would provide Telstra Sensis products such as directories system Yellow and navigational system Whereis.
Posted 01:30pm 01/7/08
Posted 04:03pm 01/7/08
Pretty sure it's still in place - Free wifi access for anyone using the DS. I remember it working pretty well from my last job (where we had a Telstra hotspot on site) with my DS.
Posted 04:08pm 01/7/08
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Posted 04:16pm 01/7/08
ive found whereis to be pretty handy when u are in a bind trying to find somewhere, and its free to browse.
Add that with the accuracy of GPS integration on the Iphone it will be even better.
Posted 04:18pm 01/7/08
When I start it up it plays some Next-g animation that I can't figure out how to remove, and in the main menu I have a "my Place" icon/app that I can't delete.
Posted 05:48pm 01/7/08
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Posted 06:54pm 01/7/08
With the enhanced security the next gen iphones will get to stop jailbreaking and phones being unlocked, it may not be as easy to detelstraise a TeliPhone as you hope.
Posted 07:45pm 01/7/08
There's apps out there you can use to change the 'code' of your Nokia to a de-branded version. Once the code has been changed, you can use the Nokia software updater to re-flash your phone with the generic, de-branded software.
Check out this site for an idea of how it's done with the Nokia N73 - From memory the program they use can handle other model Nokias as well. Then it's just a matter of finding the right code to set your phone to for the de-branded/generic mode.
Of course, warranty = out door if you brick it, which normally goes without saying with this sort of stuff I think :)
Posted 03:37pm 03/7/08
Postpaid plans go like this: (I hope the formating holds up)
Edit: Unfortunately, my spaces are removed when the item is posted, so its going to be hard to follow.
last edited by E.T. at 15:37:52 03/Jul/08
Posted 03:37pm 03/7/08
We've been discussing this for over an hour:
http://qgl.ausforums.com/index.php/439207/?agn=thread&id=2640614
Posted 03:40pm 03/7/08