More rumours that Orange might have already signed a deal with Apple to carry the iPhone in the UK and perhaps Europe.
I must admit I've been waiting for this, Orange is the only operator to have an EDGE network here in the UK. If Apple weren't going to release the iPhone with Orange, then who were they going to use? Unless as other rumours suggest the European iPhone ends up being 3G after all...
Update: More from Ars Technica...
Update: France Telecom (aka Orange) have responded to the rumours, and the associated 1.5 percent rise in their share price, with a simple "No comment", which is pretty much what O2 said...
Update: We can "neither confirm nor deny" the rumours...
Update: Orange says "Nope, not us"...
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Monday, August 13, 2007
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Rumours of a T-Mobile deal?
Rumours are spreading (via Engadget) of an Apple deal with T-Mobile for distribution of the iPhone in Germany. Interestingly some people commenting on this story are missing the point...
Europe isn't like the States, it doesn't matter that T-Mobile doesn't have a foot hold in Italy, or elsewhere. Germany is an entire country to itself. For instance the Germans have a very different pattern of usage than the Italians, and a radically different contractual set up. In Italy just about everyone has a pre-paid phone and almost nobody has a contract, while the opposite it true in Germany.
For this, and many other reasons, I was always confused when people talked about a "European Launch". At least in the UK, I'd still argue it'd still make sense for Apple to go the MVNO route.
Update: Looks like someone slipped up at T-Mobile...
Europe isn't like the States, it doesn't matter that T-Mobile doesn't have a foot hold in Italy, or elsewhere. Germany is an entire country to itself. For instance the Germans have a very different pattern of usage than the Italians, and a radically different contractual set up. In Italy just about everyone has a pre-paid phone and almost nobody has a contract, while the opposite it true in Germany.
For this, and many other reasons, I was always confused when people talked about a "European Launch". At least in the UK, I'd still argue it'd still make sense for Apple to go the MVNO route.
Update: Looks like someone slipped up at T-Mobile...
Monday, July 02, 2007
Just another Manic Monday...
It was an iPhone weekend after all, and this is very much the day after the weekend before. Just about every blog I read today had at least one iPhone post, and shockingly it's looking like it could live up to the hype and that it might actually even kick some ass. Who'd have thought?
Of course I'm sulking, and you only have to compare the U.S. and U.K. Apple Stores to figure out why. I can't buy one yet. So far we have only rumours which suggest that it'll be October before any of us here in the U.K. gets a chance at an iPhone, and we still don't know which network we'll have lock ourselves into to get one.
However as I'm off to OSCON later in the month I guess I'm going to have to stop by the Portland Apple Store and see what the fuss is all about. After all, it's the only decent thing to do...
Update: I've been seeing more and more rumours that its going to be Vodafone. Realistically I still think that has to mean a 3G iPhone because Orange have pretty much the only functional EDGE network in Europe.
Of course what I don't understand is people are taking about a U.K. and a European release in one breath. The mainland European and the U.K. markets are very different beasts and I'd be surprised if Apple tries to handle them with the same operator. Maybe it all looks the same from over on the other side of the pond, but from over here the difference between how the French or the Germans use their phones, and how the Brits do, is quite marked.
Of course I'm sulking, and you only have to compare the U.S. and U.K. Apple Stores to figure out why. I can't buy one yet. So far we have only rumours which suggest that it'll be October before any of us here in the U.K. gets a chance at an iPhone, and we still don't know which network we'll have lock ourselves into to get one.
However as I'm off to OSCON later in the month I guess I'm going to have to stop by the Portland Apple Store and see what the fuss is all about. After all, it's the only decent thing to do...
Update: I've been seeing more and more rumours that its going to be Vodafone. Realistically I still think that has to mean a 3G iPhone because Orange have pretty much the only functional EDGE network in Europe.
Of course what I don't understand is people are taking about a U.K. and a European release in one breath. The mainland European and the U.K. markets are very different beasts and I'd be surprised if Apple tries to handle them with the same operator. Maybe it all looks the same from over on the other side of the pond, but from over here the difference between how the French or the Germans use their phones, and how the Brits do, is quite marked.
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
The iPhone 3G
It looks like Apple are going to make the obvious move, the rumour is that the European version of the iPhone due for release in October will be 3G rather than the straight GSM/EDGE version being released in the States next month.
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This makes a lot of sense, at least here in the UK, nobody in the market for something like the iPhone would buy a 2.5G model. It might not matter in the US, but over here?
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