Australian retailers receiving 3G iPhone ahead of WWDC?
Maybe so, maybe not. According to an Australian Apple fan site, an unnamed Australian reseller was the proud recipient of the box you see above. Apple shipped the package with the following warning script:
SUBJECT TO TERMS OF NDA DO NOT OPEN UNTIL TUESDAY JUNE 10TH, 2008
Yeah, sure…you get a mysterious package from Apple 4 days before WWDC and you don’t open it. Right. The Australian site believes that the box contains a promotional iPhone intended for display immediately following Steve Jobs’ keynote next Monday. We’ll wait to call this one until the Australian reseller decides to bite the bullet and open the package on camera, but real or fake, we’re gonna see some 3G iPhone love within the week. We can feel it.
Tags: Apple, iPhone, Rumors, steve jobs, WWDC
OOOOOOH OPEN IT.
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Um… guys? Australia is not Austria. Might want to rework your post.
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You guys cave to marketing hype like lemmings runnung off a cliff into the ocean
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Already posted this, but wasn’t these a contest about guessing the announcement date of the iphone 2.0 and if right a giveaway to the people who guessed correctly?
I thouht I chose June 9th.
Anyways, maybe it was a different forum.
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THough it is possible there is an iphone in that box. There also cold be marketing materials, promotional materials or a host of other things.
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anyone who believes this is a clown. That is so ridiculous. Why would they ship with a big ass Apple logo on the shipping box and say something dumb like “dont open or you’ll get in trouble”?
If Apple intended to do this, they would have shipped another box inside, something a little less obvious and tempting to someone at the shipping company. Idiots.
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That looks fake to me.
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I work for the ole ATT, Never has a box that contained an Apple Iphone looked like that. You also say reseller, in the US, resellers dont sell Iphones. But, that could be different for other countries. Why do we only have this picture, how about the IMEI numbers on the side to verify that they are phones. All phones shipped in the US must carry unique IMEI numbers on the side. Thats how the UPS guys know which ones to steal! But, as stated previously, diff countries, diff path. I am at work now, no box like that in our store! Its promo stuff peeps!
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Allow me to state something, remember that cluster F*ck of credits ATT and Apple were giving for that within 14 days crap when they dropped the price. The A-Team is going to try to minimalize that as much as possible. We had people coming in for months thinking they were entitled to money.
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It would pretty sophmoric of Apple to mail out the phone with a “don’t open until…” label on it, and these guys aren’t dopes.
Smells to me like a pretty mean trick to play on us though. Dude might as well have placed a box cutter next to the package.
Soooooo close……
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I’ve worked in the wireless industry for years and I can tell you that there is no way in hell that is legit. Not a chance.
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THAT LOOKS JUST LIKE THE BOX I GOT FROM AREA 51, IT SAID DON’T OPEN, ALIEN VIDEO INSIDE.
So I didn’t open it.
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yeah right if that tape was from groom lake AB it would have a classified zipcode on it
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I didnt know Mr Gates had an office in Australia.
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One note of potential interest is the stamp nn the actual box. Normally that type of seal is located on the bottom of the box not on the top and I also do not see any other shipping labels or on the box. Have you ever received something from overseas, there are enough stamps and paper on their to wrap a gift. One other thing is the apple keyboard not sure of to many re-sellers using Mac’s in a business setting (though that may be a stretch).
Does not seem legit
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LOL @ Australian’s getting anything first.. The chances of it snowing during the summer there are greater.
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This is a photo of the BOTTOM of a box. That stamp is a cardboard box manufacturer’s rating of the box’s construction - it’s nothing related to the postal service or a courier or Oz customs.
The Oz Apple resellers I’ve visited always have Mac POS machines.
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One more addition . . . 10 June in Oz is actually 9 June in the meaningful world (Europe & USA).
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…who cares?? My Tilt can still blow it clear out of the water.
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