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Comments on: T-Mobile wins iPhone Germany exclusive, paper claims

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Posted Wednesday 4th July 2007 10:36 GMT

From reading the original (German) article I think the price was the newspaper's guess.

$100 markup seems a bit low, but then the US$ is pretty weak.

Of course US price quotes don't include tax, so if the speculation is correct it would be fair. I'd still be pleasantly surprised.

http://www.onmyiphone.com/

Unfair Monopoly? 

Posted Wednesday 4th July 2007 11:39 GMT

I can't help but feel that locking consumers into a single operator (Vodafone, T-Mobile, AT&T or otherwise) is promoting an unfair monopoly.

The iPhone is a phone, therefore is should work on any phone network. Artificially restricting it to a single network is unfair to consumers.

What planet are you on? 

Posted Wednesday 4th July 2007 12:11 GMT

Its fairly normal for Networks to pay good money for a period of exclusivity on a new Phone.

Monopoly is rubbish - there are plenty more phones around that do the job.

Get some perspective. Its just another phone at the end of the day.

They will be appearing unlocked on Ebay soon anyway.

PNGs 

Posted Thursday 5th July 2007 08:09 GMT

Don't know if the german newspaper article already says this, but apparently the US iPhone already includes the T-Mobile and Vodafone logo graphics in its ROM...

Hmmmm I wonder 

Posted Friday 6th July 2007 14:42 GMT

What would happen if you got an e.g. German iPhone and then tried to use it with a US T-Mobile Sim? might that do the trick?