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02-05-2008, 11:22 PM
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No...please not Optus. I'd have to end my contract with Telstra...and I'm not doing that.
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Why would anyone want to be on a contract with Telstra to start, unless it's for the coverage. That's the only sane reason I can think of 
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02-05-2008, 11:25 PM
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... and somewhere, someone at Nine is reading this thread, laughing hysterically at the cardigan-wearing Apple nuts that just got their backs up...  |
exactly.. who really gives a rats arse!  probably no-one beyond a bunch of geeks on an Apple forum site who haven't managed to get themselves out on a friday night!
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02-05-2008, 11:31 PM
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No...please not Optus. I'd have to end my contract with Telstra...and I'm not doing that.
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I'm the opposite, please let it be Optus so that I don't have to change dealers/contracts. Come on Optus.
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03-05-2008, 02:12 AM
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anyone speculating about the iphone cost - to buy it outright ?
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03-05-2008, 02:48 AM
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anyone speculating about the iphone cost - to buy it outright ?
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A friend of mine at Vodafone told me that he has heard from within Vodafone that the iPhone will cost around $800.00 when it is first released in Australia. |
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03-05-2008, 08:03 AM
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Why would anyone want to be on a contract with Telstra to start, unless it's for the coverage. That's the only sane reason I can think of |
and isn't that reason enough then - when you live outside of the metro areas and travel the distances that many do telstra is your only choice - optus/vodaphone may be great - but have limited coverage beyond big cities and some regional centres. we are 70 km from the nearest mobile tower and telstra next G is our only option. Recently travelled from melbourne to home - (70km north Griffith NSW) and didn't lose service. Try that with the other networks. |
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03-05-2008, 08:58 AM
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Optus? Man, I'm glad its looking to be unlocked. I've never met anyone with good Optus coverage.
And as far as the Apple logo being squished, are they even allowed to do that? I am just recalling back to the Nintendo press kits where it was stipulated that if you used the Nintendo logo it *had* to be in correct proportions, and was not allowed to have its colour changed or to be altered in any way. Although that may have only applied to watermarking Nintendo-supplied screenshots, as they also imposed a minimum size limit.
Either way, the damn thing should come out already, and every single one should have engraved on it 'first seen at MacTalk AU'.
Parallels...*shakes head*
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03-05-2008, 09:03 AM
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That maybe in your case But I have travelled (CAR) alot around NSW(syd-Deniliquin, Syd-Hay), VIC(Melb-robinvale), QLD(cairns-brissy, TVL-Brissy), and WA(perth-karlgoor, etc) I am with optus 2.5 nokia phone no problems whats so ever with coverage or making a phone call when I needed to, Now dont forget that if there is not a 3g signal then your phone should goto 2g freqs
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03-05-2008, 03:57 PM
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Thats actually a photo of an iPhone copy, not even the iPhone.. there is one being bade by a chinese company, looks exactly the same but runs windows mobile 6.0.. Dumb right!
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03-05-2008, 03:59 PM
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Why would anyone want to be on a contract with Telstra to start, unless it's for the coverage. That's the only sane reason I can think of |
Because some of us have have access to contracts normal people don't. Without divulging too much information, I'm on a corporate plan that is a lot more cost friendly than a residential plan |
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03-05-2008, 07:01 PM
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ninemsn content has a partnership with optus communications
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That's a really good point but I'm not entirely convinced that much thought went into it. You would have thought that if they were really trying, the website would have been ninemsndotcomdotau and the network displayed on the phone would have been Optus instead of Cingular. I'm guessing at this stage they just lifted the image from a US source.
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Awesome. I'm as big a fanboy as anybody here but what a great prank.
Kudos Channel 9 graphic designers.
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So, not so much maybe?
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03-05-2008, 07:23 PM
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Not deliberate, just lazy!
That graphic isn't as i thought a faki iphone, or ever a photochop, it's actually the first result for google image search "iphone"
iphone - Google Image Search
And just so you don't have to, it's actually a story about using parallels to run windows on the iphone
iPhone running Parallels (kottke.org)
so there we, go mystery debunked... more LAZY LAZY LAZY reporting from australian primetime news |
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03-05-2008, 07:39 PM
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Actually that mystery was debunked yesterday 
For some reason a lot of you ignored that post. |
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03-05-2008, 08:31 PM
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perhaps that's because there's no searching within a thread, I should have added that I did spent a cursory glance looking if anyone else had posted that, but didn't see anything
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03-05-2008, 09:00 PM
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L8ers Channel 9... Who ever is their photoshop guy he fails hard
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