If you live in Germany, want an iPhone, and are okay with T-Mobile, then this post is for you. Otherwise, enjoy some Steve Vai.
Ok, now that the American’s aren’t reading, I can tell you that the iPhone is almost certainly coming to T-Mobile in Europe, and soon. Not just because Jobs was seen toting one around Berlin recently, but because some fool datamonkey accidentally pre-posted it to T-Mobile’s German site. Ut-Oez!
We’re still not sure on when, but the word “soonish” sounds good. The question is this, though: which of T-Mo’s innovative plans will the handset get? Or a whole new treatment?
The Inquirer [via BGR, natch]
Biddin’ 100$ for iPhone delay in Europe.
I bet Apple will have tough time to catch even X-Mas sales here. If the visible data is about 5% of all data, Apple has (should have) around 2 000 issues (300-500 severe) on their data base they have to (find and) close before they can sell it in Europe: there is around 100 issues found by users – mostly UI issues, but some of those has to be fixed, too. To perk out all of those will take several months.
I wonder, if there is a clause in the contcact between AT&T and Apple, that AT&T can restrict or suspend sales of iPhones if quality of iPhone SW and/or HW is not acceptable: AT&T is notorious on paramount demands on SW quality and HW performance against standards.
Let’s see, if other smartphone manufacturers will use iPhone feature list and HW performance as reference to justify their point of view in future product sales contract negotiations. Most likely those will.