Comments on: Australian retailers receiving 3G iPhone ahead of WWDC?

By: Jeff B.

Jeff B. — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:35:46 +0000

…who cares?? My Tilt can still blow it clear out of the water.

By: W

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 01:31:26 +0000

One more addition . . . 10 June in Oz is actually 9 June in the meaningful world (Europe & USA).

By: W

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 01:30:14 +0000

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.

By: sh0N

sh0N — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 01:24:19 +0000

LOL @ Australian’s getting anything first.. The chances of it snowing during the summer there are greater.

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:04:56 +0000

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

By: jimmyc

jimmyc — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:25:31 +0000

I didnt know Mr Gates had an office in Australia.

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:10:09 +0000

yeah right if that tape was from groom lake AB it would have a classified zipcode on it

By: Chad D

Chad D — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:01:38 +0000

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.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:23:16 +0000

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.

By: ChrisNYC

ChrisNYC — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:38:09 +0000

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……

By: ATT Worker

ATT Worker — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:45:16 +0000

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.

By: ATT Worker

ATT Worker — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:39:55 +0000

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!

By: JJLO

JJLO — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:25:28 +0000

That looks fake to me.

By: 1d1ots

1d1ots — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:22:44 +0000

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.

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:15:16 +0000

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.

By: The Man Genius

The Man Genius — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:08:43 +0000

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.

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:04:57 +0000

You guys cave to marketing hype like lemmings runnung off a cliff into the ocean

By: SV

SV — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:53:29 +0000

Um… guys? Australia is not Austria. Might want to rework your post.

By: Benji

Benji — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:23:37 +0000

OOOOOOH OPEN IT.