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Can Apple Find a European iPhone Partner?
pete314 writes "A Vnunet.com article claims that European mobile operators are unwilling to concede to Apple iPhone partnership demands. Several operators went as far as to say they 'will never offer the iPhone.' In the US, Verizon reportedly passed on the device, and AT&T is rumored to have engaged in a revenue-sharing deal that includes monthly payments to Cupertino." In Europe, unlike in the US, Apple has the option of selling the iPhone through its own dealer network without a simlock.
Cool. So Apple is targeting consumers who are outside of major urban areas, and isn't so interested in people who live in NY, SF, Seattle, Dallas, etc. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, but at least it's a viable theory.
Now will you explain why you don't want MMS or GPS either? The way I see it, the iPhone is basically a modern iPod duct taped to a state of the art cell phone from 2004.
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If I wanted a sig I would have filled in that stupid box.
[quote]Sorry, that's just not so. I bought an unlocked Treo 650, stuck in my T-Mobile SIM (and T-Mobile does NOT offer the 650) and it Just Worked (tm) - like GSM is supposed to do.[/quote]
So...you made that Treo 650 yourself?
Or, Palm has already made deals with major mobile carriers prior to manufacture Treo 650?
You mixed up customer-level locking and mobile-level locking. The latter is done by manufacturers to register a unique identifier of a particular model of mobile phone with major mobile carriers.
In your case, major mobile carriers has already recognized 'Treo 650', the locking you're talking about is just consumer-level restriction.
I don't know about T-Mobile, but Palm doesn't has to strike deal directly with T-Mobile in order to get connected. The deal sometime are in form of transferrable agreements among mobile-carriers in the same area. It looks like Apple has to strike individual deals with each area in the country, but in fact it's not. Apple only has to strike deal with major carriers, and the carriers have their inter-connection agreements to let iPhone thru. I may not get into too much details into this.
Come on, +4 interesting? Did you guys who modded this up even click on the link? If you did you'd see that it is a bogus site. Total vaporware. There is no "Buy" link therefore there is no price because there is nothing to buy. Simon80 is trying to pad his karma by posting bogus shit.