|
|
09-04-2008, 08:49 PM
|
|
Regular
Join Date: Apr 2005
Group: Regulars
Posts: 389
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by MBT
I couldn't give a toss about 3G. I call, I text, I use wi-fi. I'm thinking about buying a second 2G 16gb now, actually, and getting guaranteed unlockable, mature tech rather than getting gouged a grand for a 3G, waiting for new hacks, then not even using the 3G stuff at all.
I love talking to people in my office about their 3G phones.
"Do you watch telly on it?"
"What? It's a phone!"
"Yeah, but with 3G you can do other stuff, like..."
*blank stare*
"...never mind."
|
There was once a time when nobody bothered with SMS. Why do that when you can just call someone.
What someone wants today, needs tomorrow
__________________
Join the MacTalk Nike+ running group! Click Here |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
09-04-2008, 08:51 PM
|
|
Regular
Join Date: Apr 2005
Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne and Brisbane Australia
Posts: 1,197
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by ninja
Lol ! Thats brilliant
The iPhone release here WILL be 3G
|
You have not been here long enough to remember the late and great Itunes Music store Australia thread, I think that may still hold the record and was over 1,000 
Sorry picked up the post not the quote so wasn't Ninja I was replying to  |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
09-04-2008, 08:52 PM
|
|
Regular
Join Date: Nov 2007
Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 476
|
YES!!!!!
Time to hti the dance floor!
__________________
Meh 626
iMac G4 800Mhz PowerPC, 17", Mac OS X Tiger iPhone 3G 16GB Black Optus
Successful Trades: Huy and darksplat.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
09-04-2008, 08:56 PM
|
|
Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Group: Regulars
Location: Melb
Posts: 59
|
I would like to know which resellers were told? I work for a reseller and talked with the owners and managers and they haven't heard a thing, this is after recent meetings with Apple on other matters.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
09-04-2008, 09:09 PM
|
|
Yeehaw!
Join Date: Jan 2004
Group: Administrators
Location: St. Albans, Melbourne
Posts: 11,889
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by PAddLePoP
I would like to know which resellers were told? I work for a reseller and talked with the owners and managers and they haven't heard a thing, this is after recent meetings with Apple on other matters.
|
If I say which resellers I found out from, it would become blindingly obvious who told me and get me and them in trouble.
Which reseller do you work for? |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
09-04-2008, 09:12 PM
|
|
Regular
Join Date: May 2004
Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney
Posts: 1,187
|
SO now I want to know prices and plans.
__________________
iPhone 3G | iMac 24" Alu | MBP 15" | Dell 24" LCD
Airport Extreme Ns | EyeTV/IceTV | SecuritySpy User
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
09-04-2008, 09:12 PM
|
|
Regular
Join Date: Aug 2007
Group: Regulars
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 405
|
mmm...i work at next byte and i haven't heard anything at all. so much so that one of the other employees is getting pretty peeved at ppls asking about it. mind you i am a low level employee but i do get all the emails :-)
__________________
MacBook Pro V4.1, 2.4Ghz, 250GB DD, 4 GB RAM
Apple 20" Cinema Display & Silver Bluetooth KB & MM
iPhone 3G 16GB Black
- 1TB, 320GB & 160 GB Free Agent External HDD (Time Machine, Media & Stuff)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
09-04-2008, 09:17 PM
|
|
Regular
Join Date: Apr 2005
Group: Regulars
Location: Bris Vegas
Posts: 1,934
|
I was excited at first, but there have been enough dissenting voices for me to think it might just be too good to be true.
Anthony, did the resellers pass on the information independent of each other?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
09-04-2008, 09:21 PM
|
|
MacTalk Podcaster
Join Date: Jan 2005
Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 2,493
|
FWIW, Australian Macworld says their sources agree.
__________________
17" iMac Core Duo 1.83GHz, 15" iMac G4 1GHz, Sawtooth G4 400MHz, iMac G3 350MHz, 60GB 5G iPod, 2GB 1G iPod nano, iPhone 3G 16GB
criminaldeli.tumblr.com
Successful trades: invisible, ClockWork, zootman, areal x2, Goodbye, William, richbowen, iSlayer, [MREVO8]
Last edited by tcn33; 09-04-2008 at 09:22 PM.
Reason: link
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
09-04-2008, 09:22 PM
|
|
Regular
Join Date: Jan 2008
Group: Regulars
Location: Adelaide, SA
Posts: 280
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by PAddLePoP
I would like to know which resellers were told? I work for a reseller and talked with the owners and managers and they haven't heard a thing, this is after recent meetings with Apple on other matters.
|
If your bosses know you're on MacTalk, I'd suggest they're keeping it from you intentionally 
__________________
The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of dissapointment..
blog | twitter |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
09-04-2008, 09:29 PM
|
|
Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Group: Regulars
Location: Melb
Posts: 59
|
Hahaha you're probably right
Last edited by PAddLePoP; 09-04-2008 at 09:43 PM.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
09-04-2008, 09:30 PM
|
|
Regular
Join Date: Feb 2004
Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 283
|
I have a feeling too that this is too good to be true. Why would Australia be the first place that Apple will be rolling out unlocked phones? Although I don't dispute the fact that we will be getting the iPhone sometime in June, I'm fairly dubious about claims that it will be sold unlocked.
Other than that, they might charge a massive premium on unlocked phones like they do in France.
__________________
MacBook Air 1.8/80 |PowerBook G4 12" | iMac Core 2 Duo 20" | iPod Mini 4GB | iPhone 8GB (1.1.3)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
09-04-2008, 09:35 PM
|
|
Regular
Join Date: Mar 2005
Group: Regulars
Location: nhulunbuy
Posts: 1,774
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by vortex`
If your bosses know you're on MacTalk, I'd suggest they're keeping it from you intentionally |
more like the bosses dont know either, even the owners of reseller stores know nothing in advance.'
this stuff is all rumours fuelled by a comment here and a comment there - most of it seeded by Apple. we know exactly as much or as little as they want us to.
look how apple manipulate the market every tuesday alone!!
sure there willl be a 3G iPhone released some time this year, but we really know no more today than we did yesterday.
our strings have just been tugged on by the apple puppeteers.
__________________
MBA, MBP 17", Mac Mini media centre, PB 15" G4,
1TB Time Capsule, eye TV hybrid
ipods 1 x20GB 1G 1 x 40GB 4G & 1 x 80GB iPod video, 16GB 1G iPhone
website web gallery MTAU KIVA lending team |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
09-04-2008, 09:41 PM
|
|
Ultimate Consumer
Join Date: Jun 2004
Group: Regulars
Location: Canberra ACT
Posts: 1,937
|
Now this info / rumour / speculation is the best news I've heard in a long time!!!!
WOOHOO!!!!
Can't wait and if its true - June can't finish soon enough!
Lucky I'm doing lots of overseas traveling at the moment.
Back in Aust third week of June too - just in time to ensure I grab one of the earliest / fastest official Aust released iPhones as soon as I can!
Thanks for the great thread!
__________________
Music - 16GB Black iPhone 3G, iPod Touch 16GB, iPod nano 4GB white.
Home entertainment - Mac mini 1.83GHz 2GB RAM plugged in to a 40" Sony Bravia X Series (HD LCD TV);
Lifestyle choice - 16GB Black iPhone 3G and a 2.2GHz C2D MacBook Pro 4GB RAM 120GB HDD
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
09-04-2008, 09:49 PM
|
|
Yeehaw!
Join Date: Jan 2004
Group: Administrators
Location: St. Albans, Melbourne
Posts: 11,889
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Johnny Appleseed
Anthony, did the resellers pass on the information independent of each other?
|
Yep - they told me individually.
Looks like you aren't alone on not believing me:
iTWire - Australia to get worlds first truly unlocked 3G iPhone?
Blogs - Traffic - ZDNet Australia
But that's fine and doesn't bother me. Most people know to take anything that isn't from Apple directly with a grain of salt (I hope so at least, trusting me as a single source is a bit silly). I reported what I was told and I know I'm not lying or making things up simply to get hits. The people that told me are professional and personal friends of mine and I doubt they'd mislead me on purpose.
I gave justifications for why I think what they told me is true. Feel free to make your own! End of the day, no-one who is able to say anything actually knows anything concrete. Those that do have NDAs or other reasons not to (Steve Jobs burning their house down for example), so it's difficult to verify.
I don't know what those reporters expect to gain by calling up the store, asking a cashier/floor sales person or even a store manager and asking about the iPhone. Only 1 or two people would know in each company and they wouldn't tell anyone because they're afraid of leaks going back to them and consequently, them being reamed by Apple. So if you work for a reseller, don't expect to be told, your boss probably doesn't even know. They don't want you telling customers.
MacWorld (who would have connections in resellers similar to mine - something ZD Net and ITWire and the other non-Mac centric journalists wouldn't have) has also verified my story in the same way I did, by not mentioning sources. |
|
|
|
|
|
