According to Down Under website MacTalk, Australia may be among the first to get its hands on a 3G iPhone that isn't locked to a single provider through an exclusivity deal with Apple. A correspondent of the Aussie site got the information from local resellers who were briefed by Apple earlier this week. The iPhone is expected to become available in Australia in June, according to the report.
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i find it really annoying...personally i like the iphone, and i find it annoying that iphone is only exclusive for AT&T unless you have the unlock version which now days are hard to get because the stupid update.yet they keep making updates this and that so you can only use at&t, why cant they cant just make it easy for everyone else who likes to use other companies such as T-mobile, yet they have to keep on updating this and that. If i have a chance i probably get the 3g version iphone if is going to be unlocked. i hate phones that are just exclusive for one company.
You want to here how everyone got messed over with the iphone.
Apple got messed over when they signed a contract to make cingular the carrier for 5 years including parts and labor.
There Mistake:
Then cingular sold-out to AT&T now under law the contract with cingular should be void because the contract was signed under law by cingular and apple not AT&T and apple which means apple would have had to sign a new contract with at&t in order to sell the iphone.
The unlock option.
By using the unlock option perfered by not only people that are using the phone as a phone but as just a ipod the phone has been used more then any other cell phone and AT&T cannot ignore that because if you asked users how many unlocked iphones they have most reply i dont have one but in fact own 2 or three of the devices as not to get busted for unlocking the phone.
to make the iphone better.
Unlocked for all service providers no matter country.
updates that give users the option to install there own applications and block known spyware and malware ware for the iphone.
Problems in doing this.
Apple is the most stumbern son's of gun's on the face of the earth
they wont help anyone.
I think the Australians are smart. If they get the unlocked or rather the plain vanilla variety which was never locked to begin with, it will be the largest reselling platform in the world. People need not go in to buy a dicey device. The question will be the price of the device. If the price difference is reasonable I have a feeling that Singapore & Dubai - world's largest reselling centers - will get tons of these devices via Australia. You are surely going to see a substantial drop in iPhone sales in other countries.
This is great news. I am in the market for a new phone and i am off contract in 2 weeks i just paid my last bill. soo if this is the case that apple's iphone is not exclusive with any provider i may get this with optus. I'll wait till june. Unlocked is what got me on this. I just hope that the price tag will be reasonable. Although being onlocked could hike up the price.
Here in the states, Apple of course has a solid contract with AT&T so don't expect an officially unlocked iPhone available here any time soon. I've read on three seperate blogs now about this site claiming to have a working iPhone 3G unlock, which doesn't require a SIM card, and achieves this through downgrading the firmware. I'm thinking of trying it out.
If you want an official unlocked phone, the countries I know of so far are China and Australia. The price might make you think twice though!
