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you can get the 8GB for $99 in Australia

sunny successor, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link

Don't Australian data allowances tend to give you like, 2K a month or something?

Alba, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link

Meantime -- recommendations for an iPhone microphone, anyone? Will need to get a good one for interview purposes.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 17:35 (fifteen years ago) link

you can get the 8GB for $99 in Australia

-- sunny successor, Thursday, 10 July 2008 01:09 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Nope.

When Jobs said US$199 he meant the up-front price on a contract. Which turned out to be a lie anyway, as we're seeing in places like NZ.

Outright in Aus it's about $729 for the 8Gb and $849 for the 16Gb, and even then it's an extra $80 to unlock from the network. The $99 you saw will be up-front on a contract.

Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:20 (fifteen years ago) link

Don't Australian data allowances tend to give you like, 2K a month or something?

-- Alba, Thursday, 10 July 2008 01:23 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Only one company has officially said anything, and its data rates are okay but not great. A $59 cap will get you 700Mb of data per month; $39 gets you 500Mb. If you want 1Gb you're paying around $100.

Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:22 (fifteen years ago) link

AA I saw Vodaphone had the phone for $99 with a $99 a month contract somewhere. I'll try to find it

sunny successor, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:26 (fifteen years ago) link

Hey, last week I got AirPort for my iBook!

-- Sean (Sean), Wednesday, January 8, 2003 12:07 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

in the future, when people parody this decade, they will say things like this

s1ocki, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link

xpost: Living across the Ditch in NZ just seems punishing. Broadband access is punishing and the total cost of the iPhone is just outrageous (estimates put the higher end options at nearly $6000/yr). Lovely country this, but Christ, they really have to get on top of this.

tvdisko, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link

that'll teach you for living in a nuclear-free zone

DG, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 22:12 (fifteen years ago) link

And I didn't think it could get worse. Telstra's plans are just slightly more painful than having one's anus torn apart by grappling hooks attached to very, very slow tractors.

Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 10 July 2008 00:45 (fifteen years ago) link

So clearly competition and an open market have resoundingly failed.

Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 10 July 2008 00:47 (fifteen years ago) link

not if you're the goatse.cx dude

HI DERE, Thursday, 10 July 2008 00:50 (fifteen years ago) link

Am I missing something here?


"
Confirmed: Vodafone plans announced!
Wednesday, 09 July 2008
Update (11:29am Thursday): Vodafone has updated their plan webpage - note a few changes from yesterday, including the removal of quite a number of the cap contracts and the addition of:

Mobile Payment Plan (MPP) is available to credit approved Contract Vodafone customers. MPP is in addition to the minimum monthly spend for the particular plan and any other additional charges. MPP may be terminated at any time by paying out balance of phone cost. See Vodafone.com.au for full conditions.

Thanks to Tim for sending us the update.

[ (Old) Vodafone Terms and Conditions Screenshot ] | [ (Old) Vodafone Plans Screenshot ]

Vodafone are pleased to announce 8 new and exclusive plans for the Apple® iPhone™ 3G. Not only will these plans give you heaps of credit to talk, TXT and more, you'll also get a massive amount of included data to take advantage of the iPhone's email and web-browsing capabilities. We'll announce full details on 11 July.

$69 Vodafone Cap Contract for Apple® iPhone™ 3G
iPhone 8GB for $189 or iPhone 16GB for $309 includes $310 of talk, TXT & more plus 250MB data per month

$99 Vodafone Cap Contract for Apple® iPhone™ 3G
iPhone 8GB for $99 or iPhone 16GB for $219 includes $600 of talk, TXT & more plus 500MB data per month

$119 Vodafone Cap Contract for Apple® iPhone™ 3G
iPhone 8GB for $59 or iPhone 16GB for $179 includes $800 of talk, TXT & more plus 500MB data per month

$169 Vodafone Cap Contract for Apple® iPhone™ 3G
iPhone 8GB for FREE or iPhone 16GB for $89 includes $1200 of talk, TXT & more plus 1GB data per month"

http://www.iphoneinaustralia.com/

sunny successor, Thursday, 10 July 2008 03:07 (fifteen years ago) link

This is all quite interesting: In Russia we're hearing that the reason we're still not getting (legal) iPhones is because it's not possible here to legally lock people into one carrier and therefore the "low-price" iPhone isn't possible (i.e. no carrier will subsidize your purchase if you are then free to switch to another carrier). But if I understand what I see above, people outside the US and UK aren't getting lower priced phones AND they aren't necessarily locked into their carrier for years.

Plus the swtichover to the low-priced phones means we can no longer buy phones without subscriptions and unlock them :( Effing a.

mitya, Thursday, 10 July 2008 03:42 (fifteen years ago) link

Sorry ss, I've forgotten where that was going.

Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 10 July 2008 04:13 (fifteen years ago) link

should i get 8 or 16?!?!?

i don't plan to use it much as an iPod ...

moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 10 July 2008 07:43 (fifteen years ago) link

Dunno. I'm getting an 8Gb on a one-year contract, and if it's not enough I'll start again next year. Maps is really the only thing I can think of that would suck up storage.

Telstra's $35 plan comes with 5Mb of data per month. MEGABYTES. FIVE MEGABYTES. That's the equivalent of, what, one tenth of a WDYLL thread.

Has anyone else in the entire world offered a 5Mb/month plan?? What's the fucking point?? Honestly??

Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 10 July 2008 08:09 (fifteen years ago) link

Seriously, this is the exact equivalent of me selling bananas at a stall for $2/kg, and some ugly deluded moron sets up next to me selling bananas for $500/kg.

This, I mean you would have to have your head actually all the way up your own arsehole to even contemplate offering 5Mb/month. Utterly THE stupidest business decision I have ever seen in my entire life.

Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 10 July 2008 08:12 (fifteen years ago) link

Except that there are a bunch of people dumb enough only to look at the headline phone cost and price plan. Ignoring the important details.

Ed, Thursday, 10 July 2008 08:27 (fifteen years ago) link

i might not have researched it enough but i think in the US you have to buy unlimited data for $30/mo. (though not unlimited text)

moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 10 July 2008 09:43 (fifteen years ago) link

i mean, $30/mo more expensive than a comparable at&t plan. so a 450-minute plan that normally costs $40/mo costs $70/mo.

moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 10 July 2008 09:53 (fifteen years ago) link

I think you're right. And it's not reeeeeally unlimited; they get all shirty if you use more than a couple of gig.

Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 10 July 2008 11:23 (fifteen years ago) link

what do they do, threaten to beat you up if you use too much?

s1ocki, Thursday, 10 July 2008 11:53 (fifteen years ago) link

appstore is open, and awesome.

stet, Thursday, 10 July 2008 12:20 (fifteen years ago) link

no 2.0 firmware, no cred

czn, Thursday, 10 July 2008 12:21 (fifteen years ago) link

Man there's some junk in here too

stet, Thursday, 10 July 2008 12:24 (fifteen years ago) link

59p to make ur screen go white -> didn't the dudes who made a similar app for fbook make a bomb off this????

czn, Thursday, 10 July 2008 12:29 (fifteen years ago) link

So they've launched the apps before the firmware or new hardware that can run the apps?

treefell, Thursday, 10 July 2008 12:48 (fifteen years ago) link

(I got the firmware treefell)

Don't think am allowed to talk about the apps till tomorrow.

stet, Thursday, 10 July 2008 12:55 (fifteen years ago) link

shazam: found exactly what I was listening to from am obscure snippet

Nytimes: offline newspaper v nice for tube

Netnewswire: not much better than the website

Exposure: Flickr client pulls pics from where you are, v nice

iTunes remote: da bomb

Or so I've heard.

tets, Thursday, 10 July 2008 12:58 (fifteen years ago) link

basically this is some Christmas morning shit

stet, Thursday, 10 July 2008 13:00 (fifteen years ago) link

the appstore is live; no firmware yet unless you are in the know or "acquire" it

those sound nice; god installer.app was always some bullshit.

czn, Thursday, 10 July 2008 13:02 (fifteen years ago) link

god i want this phone. how do i make husband ok with me buying $300 phone when we are poor right now??

sunny successor, Thursday, 10 July 2008 13:06 (fifteen years ago) link

I am a happy man.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 July 2008 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link

oops, i went offline during the process and had to restore my phone. now back outside on wifi having a second go...

toby, Thursday, 10 July 2008 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link

No kopelverkoop means any carrier you like, I think.

Yep, "koppelen" means (roughly) to attach. So the sale can't be "attached" to a specific network/carrier. You can basically walk into Mobistar buy the iphone and then use it.

*weeps* -> Not really but inside my heart is breaking a little. I know it's silly but when I hear that peeps can get this for 100 bucks (or whatever) I just wanna bit my flipping Nokia in two.

stevienixed, Thursday, 10 July 2008 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link

WHERES MY IPHONE CORD??????

sunny successor, Thursday, 10 July 2008 17:45 (fifteen years ago) link

god i want this phone. how do i make husband ok with me buying $300 phone when we are poor right now??

-- sunny successor, Thursday, 10 July 2008 23:06 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

'Someone stole our tivo!!!'
'I'm sure it'll turn up. Have you seen my new iphone?'

Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 10 July 2008 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link

"This iPhone's beautiful! Wait, where's our daughter?"

"Well, TECHNICALLY she's our daughter..."

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 July 2008 19:40 (fifteen years ago) link

you guys

sunny successor, Thursday, 10 July 2008 20:16 (fifteen years ago) link

Going to stand in a lol queue now. Chance of scoring one: approx. -2

Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 10 July 2008 22:49 (fifteen years ago) link

omg the Optus queues are disgusting. Customers trying to push in and start fights with the security staff, FOR A PHONE. Some guy left the shop with a yellow bag in his hand and a shit-eating grin on his face.

Nobody's at the other chains. So there's loads of stock at the wrong places and no stock at the only good place.

Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 10 July 2008 23:19 (fifteen years ago) link

Tried a pokey shop which is very sure it'll have 8Gbs available this afternoon. They'll call me to confirm. Not bad for an impromptu crack.

Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 10 July 2008 23:34 (fifteen years ago) link

optus in north sydney? I USED TO WORK THERE. their penthouse conference room is the shizz

sunny successor, Friday, 11 July 2008 00:26 (fifteen years ago) link

theyre probably all looking down at the fighting masses and laughing right now

sunny successor, Friday, 11 July 2008 00:27 (fifteen years ago) link

at&t store suggested people would be lining up tonight

moonship journey to baja, Friday, 11 July 2008 00:48 (fifteen years ago) link

i want a white one

moonship journey to baja, Friday, 11 July 2008 00:49 (fifteen years ago) link

http://cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/lee-stoetzel-computer.jpg

and what, Friday, 11 July 2008 00:52 (fifteen years ago) link


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