BTW, someone mentioned earlier that they pre-ordered their phone from Telstra, and that all of the phones that will be available on the 11th (from that particular store they went to) have already been sold. I don't think that's the case; none of the carriers are actually taking any pre-orders, just "registration of interest" which doesn't guarantee anything.

Haha yeah. Just drag this here, just hook that up there, quickly switch in prepared code that nobody sees, look! A complete app! No coding!

What he said supports what I have heard from Vodafone and Optus store managers. VERY LIMITED SUPPLY.

Now that telstra has released there pricing , which i think is toal shit..Vodaphone and optus will be scrambling to finalise there plans , i would bet that within the next 3-4 days they will release there pricing, i hope to god that the pre paid phones are 900 dollars like everyone is sayin they will be....anything over 350 for thr 16GB and im out.....( yes ima poor cvnt)

$350 for a pre-paid 16GB iPhone?
im sorry to say, but thats extremely unlikely...

considering that, on a telstra $30 plan, it costs $399 for an iPhonr 3G upfront...

i called telstra in chaddy they said high chance we will get unlocked iphones apparently there are rules against locked phones in australia that are on plans he didn't go into great detail into that though.

however optus has told me they unlock for $80

Vodafone is $50 for less six months old plus another $50 to unlock

so about $100 unless u wait six months it is $50

There is a law that specifically states you need to be able to unlock a mobile phone from a carrier. Though you still have to pay out your contract, but the phone itself can then be used on any network. This unlocking does cost a bit though, like Optus' $80.

Could you please post in the correct forum section next time, moved from Apple General

and if i was to unlock iphone using this method ill still be able to get apple iphone updates for free unless they put a charge on that particular update maybe get some data and all that jazz and shell will remained unlocked

Wasn't this debunked in another thread? I'm sure it was. There were some handsets one provider got that they simply never got the unlock codes for and never could unlock them.

There have been so many mobile links the past few weeks I wouldn't know where to search for it. Does anyone remember the thread?

can't you just pay phone outright originally then unlock

That's prepaid phones. We don't know yet if any of the three telcos will be doing prepaid out here.

I too wandered in to a Telstra shop yesterday to investigate pricing for the iphone plans. Whilst they will offer some Testra specific site content for free, anything beyond their free portal is mind-blowingly unrealistic. Based on their standard $100 a month plan (which I was told the iphone will apply to), you get $10 worth of rate rates included, or 4MB. The average website size in 2008 is now around 316 KB in size, so you would be able to surf the front pages of maybe 10 sites in a month without being slugged an additional $1 per MB thereafter. Or, maybe one song download (around 4MB a song). This is utterly unaffordable.

To put it in perspective, the US can purchase unlimited data downloads for iphones at a rate of $30 per month. In Canada, you'll get 1 GB of data on a $100 plan (albeit on a 3 year contract. 1Gb data package on top of the $100 monthly fee on Telstra, will cost you an extra $119 per month. Basically, it makes the entire iphone, an all its enhanced connectivity (mobile-me / email / multimedia capabilities) redundant to the Australian market. The Australian telcos (at least Telstra so far - as the only ones to release pricing) have managed to regress a great technical product into an ipod touch that makes calls - nothing more.

Vodafone and Optus have indicated they will. Telstra have said Plan only, from memory.

Alright then, thanks Kevin.