It was well worth me getting up at 3am this morning.
Yay for the iPhone 3G!
My first few thoughts were that if you’re a Windows Mobile handset manufacturer, then you should be seriously scared (especially considering the Blackberry Bold is just around the corner too). This iPhone is everything a PDA should be, and has seriously pushed the envelope of mobile data technology. It’s more than I ever expected I think.
Second thought was that Apple seem to have gone out hard against RIM and Blackberry! (Which may very well be why there’s no Telstra link on Apple Australia’s iPhone site.) Not just through their “Enterprise” features… but through MobileMe. MobileMe goes way over and above what Blackberry have ever been able to provide to a non-email-server user.
I was sitting at my computer quite in awe at MobileMe. I’ve never been a huge fan of .Mac, never needed it really. But all of a sudden, this has broken through to be something extremely amazing; something that’s always been limted to corporates. It hasn’t been available to consumers at this extent. All of a sudden, everyone has dual sync emails, calendar, contacts… not just Blackberry corporates who have a $6000 server next to their Exchange server.
So yes, damn straight I want an iPhone 3G.
It doesn’t look like Telstra’s on board; which for mine, is sad. They have the best 3G coverage - no matter how you feel about them, that’s pretty undisputed. But, my guess is that they feel it would entrench far too much on Blackberry (who seem to be getting very close to Telstra with this new HSDPA Blackberry only just around the corner), and very possibly, the lack of Bigpond/Telstra branding on the handset may be against Sol’s directive for mobile handsets. That’s just a huge guess on my part though.
So Voda or Optus? My choice will be down to price - if one of them brings out an unlimited data plan, I’ll be there queuing up at the store with the rest of ‘em.
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June 10, 2008 at 7:38 pm
David
But, it should work with NextG if Telstra let it.
From the Apple site.
UMTS/HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100 MHz)
GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
850Mhz is the Frequency of NextG.
June 10, 2008 at 11:23 pm
James
This is true.
But it depends on whether or not the iPhone is locked to Voda or Optus. The way it seems (going by the US Apple Store at the moment), the iPhone 3G will only be available when you sign up to a 24 mth contract with the provider.
June 11, 2008 at 7:02 am
Rob
You don’t believe for a second that it’ll stay ‘locked’ for long do you?
June 11, 2008 at 7:15 am
James
No no, not at all :)
But what would be the point in buying one on a 24 mth contract with Voda, paying that contract out for like $800, just to then take it across to Telstra where we probably won’t have an unlimited data plan.