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Reply With QuoteAnd it only works with German SIM cards. A swedish guy bought one to try to "do the right thing" instead of buying an american or british phone and jailbreaking it. So he pays double the money, and still needs to jailbreak it...
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- November 26th, 2007, 05:53 AM #1
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Provider-free iPhone now available...
...in Germany.
See full report in http://www.macnotes.de/2007/11/22/ip...ten-eindrucke/
For the non-German speaking, you pay your iPhone €999.- and have it freed from any SIM-lock through iTMS in 24 hours.
Of course, you only reach the services that your provider makes available... or use WiFi !My current machine is an iMac Core 2 Duo 2.16 GHz 24" and a MacBook Pro 13" with MacOS X 10.6. My oldest Apple was born in 1977.
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- November 27th, 2007, 06:17 AM #2
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- November 27th, 2007, 06:53 AM #3
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That's really expensive
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- November 27th, 2007, 07:38 AM #4
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It's not even double the money, it's triple. 1 euro = $1,50 early...
So he pays $1500 for it, and still has to use the other tools to make it work for him.Mac Mini Server | MacBook Pro | iPhone | Other Macs + a bunch of iPods, Newtons and other toys
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- November 27th, 2007, 09:11 AM #5
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no, it's cheaper than entering into a contract.
over here, the cheapest you can legitimately buy an iPhone for is about £899 (£269+£35/month for 18 months). €999 is £770.Dual 1.8GHz G5 2GB, 1TB, Radeon 9600XT 128MB, 10.5
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- November 27th, 2007, 10:51 AM #6
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Reading that it will be around 500 Euro (more, but clearly less than 1000 Eur) in France, makes the T-Mobile offer of a free iPhone still look like a total rip off.
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- November 27th, 2007, 12:59 PM #7
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I'm so happy that there's an iPhone without contract - because I have a Mobilcom Austria contract, and when the iPhone comes to Austria with T-Mobile (already announced officially), I wouldn't be able to buy it.
But 999 Euros for the unlocked version!!! Now I'm not so sure anymore... Well, I anyway had an eye on that new Nokia phone...
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- November 27th, 2007, 02:06 PM #8
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(there's always ebay+dodging the firmware updates)
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