More iPhone countries to be announced at March 6th event?

I swear I saw senior le steve at a private airport outside of beijing last week...

china here we come.

Hi Guys,

Looks like it will be in Ireland, Italy and Austria!

RE: "Oh, and one last thing...it would be really nice to see Apple drop the prices on those iPhones and iPods right about now. The price reduction - which would reflect the plummeting prices of Flash storage would really spur on device sales."

Apple doesn't need your "pricing" recommendation. Everybody wants something "cheaper." Apple supplies a mobile phone that is more of a handheld computer. In my opinion, it is already CHEAP. Apple gives more hardware and software in its iPhone than any other company gives, and this includes the "designer" phones as well as the expensive, high-end Blackberries.

If you want something cheap, buy a Motorola RAZR!

Don't see it being released in the Netherlands unless they come out with a new model. We don't have an EDGE network anymore.

The Irish deployment will mirror that of the UK, where the iPhone is also carried by O2, and additionally sold by Carphone Warehouse. An 8GB model will be priced at €399, and the 16GB phone at €499. Fees will start at €45 per month under an 18-month contract; users will not however have access to unlimited data, the cap being set at 1GB for all plans. Similarly, Visual Voicemail is not being supported in the initial deployment, though it may arrive later.

Both of these changes will make the Irish iPhone distinct from that in any other country.

From O2's site for Ireland:

* Unused inclusive minutes and texts cannot be carried over to the following month. !!

** Data use in excess of the 1GB allowance will be charged at 2c per MB excluding roaming. !!!

*** Visual voicemail is not currently supported. !!!!!

I'm getting a Touch & sticking with Vodafone.

It would be great to see the iPhone finally released in Canada, with a good data plan, I will sell my unlocked iPhone and get a legitimate one!!

Donovan

Canadians, don't get your hopes up.  I highly doubt we'll be seeing an iPhone anytime soon...

The Irish are getting their iPhones through O2 with only 1GB of data included and no Visual Voice Mail.  So they're not getting unlimited data...  So the reason that people have been giving for iPhone not coming to Canada (because data plans are too expensive to be unlimitted) doesn't sound so valid anymore.

Let me suggest a reason why we're not getting the iPhone in Canada:

Rogers is the ONLY GSM carrier in Canada.  Now, I didn't do much research, but I'm betting that in Ireland, O2 has other GSM competitors.  In Canada, we have Rogers, and Fido, which is owned by Rogers.  When Apple approached Rogers and said, "Hey, we've got a phone, but for you to have it on your network, we'll need you to pay us a nice chunk of the money you collect from your customers monthly." 

Then Rogers said, "Haha.  Yeah right.  If you want in to Canada, you gotta come through us.  If Canadians want to unlock iPhones and use it in Canada, they gotta use it through us.  So we win no matter what.  Why should we pay you?"

So you see?  Until Apple divorces from the single carrier model and offer just plain unlocked iPhones like Tim Cook has suggested, we won't be seeing official iPhones in Canada...

Disappointed Canadian said

        "So you see?  Until Apple divorces from the single carrier model and offer just plain unlocked iPhones like Tim Cook has         suggested, we won't be seeing official iPhones in Canada..."

Unfortunately that doesn't make any sense.  If Rogers is the only GSM carrier in Canada then what difference does it make if Apple changes from it's single carrier model?  If they went to a multi-carrier who would they go with in Canada if there is only one company that uses GSM.

O2 ripping us off in the Republic of Ireland.

Whether you like the iPhone or not this is simply another case of being ripped off in Ireland. In every other country the iPhone has been released, they have had unlimited data plans also usually supported by an agreement for use of wi-fi hotspots such as AT&T's wi-fi spots in the US and O2's own wi-fi hotspots in the UK. In the UK iPhone subcribers also have access to cloud wi-fi network which is a nationwide wi-fi provider inclusive in their O2 tariff.
What is interesting here is that the iPhone is only available in the UK on O2 and in Ireland on O2. This gives us a direct comparison between pricing policies in the UK and Ireland via the same company, for example: high tariff UK is £75 (€105) Vs €100 in Ireland. In the UK you get 3000 minutes of calls but in Ireland you get 700 minutes. In UK you get 500 texts and in Ireland you get 250. In UK you get unlimited data and wi-fi (O2 hotspots and cloud) and in Ireland you get a 1GB limit, 2c for every additional 1MB and no deal with any wi-fi hotspots. And also in Ireland, additional calls are 20c per minute which is pretty high and additional texts are 10c per minute, also relatively high.
Even a tech-related article I read today states this:
"Fees will start at €45 per month under an 18-month contract; users will not however have access to unlimited data, the cap being set at 1GB for all plans. Similarly, Visual Voicemail is not being supported in the initial deployment, though it may arrive later. Both of these changes will make the Irish iPhone distinct from that in any other country."
Also, quoting the O2 website:
"Unused inclusive minutes and texts cannot be carried over to the following month." and
"*** Visual voicemail is not currently supported".

We are the only country so far with no unlimited data plan. O2 are also launching this product on St. Patrick's week March 14th. It is nice to know that O2 are sending us a happy Paddy's day gift by ripping us off.

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