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Written on July 9, 2008 – 11:37 am
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
With the upcoming launch of the iPhone 3G in 22 countries, more and more messages of the craziness the phone causes come to our ears. Take the Brits for example, they have besieged the online stores en masse, causing peaks of 13,000 requests per second. “We’d done everything we could to cope with high demand but on that scale our Web site did struggle,” said an O2 spokesman to Reuters. “The experience wasn’t as smooth as we’d have liked it to be.”
Not surprisingly, both carriers - O2 and Carphone Warehouse - have sold out their complete online stocks. Carphone Warehouse stated that the level of interest was 10 times that for the original iPhone last year.
So the people from the U.K who also feel somewhat aroused by the sight of the shiny object but haven’t been able to place an online order, should now get their sleeping bags and start camping in front of an iPhone-selling store.
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Written on June 16, 2008 – 9:29 pm
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
Believe it or not, Germans can buy the brand new 3G iPhone 8 GB version for only 1 euro - and a fat T-Mobile contract. To be exact: users have to sign up for a monthly 69-euro service plan. By doing this, Apple probably wants the early majority to pick up the iPhone in a dazzling speed as a lot of teenagers and twenty-somethings can’t resist such a low price.
Operators like T-Mobile can easily subsidize the phones, as long consumers sign for a very lucrative contract. The 16-gigabyte version will start at 19.95 euros with an all-inclusive data plan costing 89 euros per month going up to 249.95 euros for a minimal 29 euros-per-month contract.
I wonder how many of the shiny phones they’ll ship in. One thing is for sure.. “Is that an iPhone…?” will soon be history.
Written on June 12, 2008 – 8:04 pm
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
According to the GSM Association, the EU’s mobile data market grew by 40 percent to 7 billion Euros in 2007- text messages not included. Operators invested more than 20 billion Euros in enhancing their mobile networks and services.
This has paid off, as in the year to April 2008, the number of 3G users in the EU doubled to 112 million, that’s 22.5 percent of all Europeans. And here comes one exciting conclusion: Europe has adopted 3G faster than any other region of the world. In North America, 18.4 percent of the people are using 3G, in the Asia-Pacific region the percentage is 3.7.
One of the reasons for this major increase is 3G adoption is competition from technologies like Wi-Fi, since it makes the prices drop. Tom Phillips, Chief Government & Regulatory Affairs Officer of the GSMA said in the press release that “this gives mobile users the convenience of being able to access email, the Internet and other multimedia services wherever they travel within Europe. We expect prices to continue to fall as operators further innovate around tariffs and more and more Europeans use these services as a part of their everyday lives.”
I wonder how big the influence of the upcoming iPhone 3G will be. That shiny object might boost the number of adopters even more.
Written on June 9, 2008 – 9:39 pm
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
I’m sure that if there would have been a ‘Buy’ button at my local Apple store for the new iPhone I would have clicked it today.
Check the new features:
3G, Push email, calendar, and contacts with Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and new MobileMe patform. Maps with GPS which shows you where all your contacts are. New apps available through built in App Store. Only $199 for the 8GB model and $299 for the 16GB model.
Available everywhere in the world starting July 11. The only thing I gotta figure out is who will get what color here at home. I’m guessing white for Tessa to go with her MacBook and Black for me. What do you think?
Will you be able to resist?
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