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Old 17-10-2007, 05:48 PM
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Apple to sell unlocked iPhones!
Via Engadget:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/17/o...one-in-france/

Looks like Apple and their ways have been defeated by French law. It looks like it is going to be expensive though...

I am more interested in what this will mean for us. I am sure the dev team will hack it to peices within hours, find out how it is different and use that hack...or extract the firmware to run on our phones over here

What could this mean also for the rest of the world...will Apple just give up when French unlocked iPhones flood the market?
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Old 17-10-2007, 05:51 PM
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That is big big big news...

It's going to be hard for Apple too.. they'll want to price it up a bit to make a decent margin on it, and also not have it too cheap to piss off those in the US who have brought them...

Will be interesting... it might be worth importing them from France to Aust...
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Nice.

I for one welcome our new unlocked iPhone overlords.

But can you imagine importing one of these things from France? It may be unlocked, but once you pay for it to be unlocked and shipped out here, it's not going to be cheap.

Is it really worth the hassle when there are 'other' ways? Would you do this over the other thing?
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Old 17-10-2007, 05:54 PM
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If I was in France at the time...or new someone going to France, sure I'd get them to pick me up an unlocked phone (depending on price of course). I don't think I'd go to all the trouble of getting it shipped from some reseller in France.
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Old 17-10-2007, 06:04 PM
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399 Euro = $640 AUD.

$399 USD = $450 AUD

slight gouging on price there.
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Old 17-10-2007, 06:09 PM
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I bet Apple makes it so those iPhones only have French localisation... lol
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Old 17-10-2007, 06:13 PM
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I bet Apple makes it so those iPhones only have French localisation... lol
hah yeah. They will certainly do something to stop people using it elsewhere
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Old 17-10-2007, 06:13 PM
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But it's much easier to hack localisation than sim cards.
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Old 17-10-2007, 06:16 PM
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Easy.. They could just not release them to france....!! at all
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Old 17-10-2007, 06:18 PM
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What you lot seem to miss is that there will be two iPhones available in France from Orange, the locked ones that will be €399, and the unlocked models which will cost significantly more. If the current differences between locked and unlocked normal handset prices here, the unlocked iPhone will be at least double the 'normal' locked RRP.

Apple have a contractual obligation to AT&T with every phone sold, no matter where it's sold and whether the law says they have to offer an unlocked version.


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Old 17-10-2007, 06:18 PM
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I bet Apple makes it so those iPhones only have French localisation... lol
Or give you an OUTRAGEOUS ACCENT if you use it...

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Old 17-10-2007, 06:21 PM
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399 Euro = $640 AUD.

$399 USD = $450 AUD

slight gouging on price there.
$399 USD = 282 Euro
399 Euro = $565 USD
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Seems like it's gonna cost 999 EURO!!

EDIT: 999EURO = 1600 AUD!

EDIT 2: Seems like this site says they are 749 EURO.
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Old 17-10-2007, 06:22 PM
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I bet all iPhones will be sold unlocked as soon as the AT&T contract ends.
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Old 17-10-2007, 06:22 PM
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I am not interested in importing one..I already have an iPhone

I am more interested to know what this will mean for the hacking scene...unless Apple some how physically unlocks the handsets, it would have to be firmware/software based meaning it could be hacked.

I am sure with an offical Apple unlocked iPhone to work with..the hacker community will be in heaven!
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