iPhone proliferates around the globe, the madness spreads
The iPhone 3G must have a lot of frequent-flyer miles, because it’s certainly getting around. Today, over 21 additional countries including: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, India, Latvia, Lithuania, Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia and Uruguay have launched the iPhone 3G. This brings iPhone availability up to 43 countries total, and an expected 70 by the end of 2008. Worry not - many more nations will experience the buggy joy that is the Jesusphone II. How many countries have you been to? We might hit up Mexico, we heard they don’t extradite people from there for leaking phones… The real question is, any of our international friends buying an iPhone 3G today?
HA HA HA HA HA
I love that photo!
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the photo unneccesary for me.
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nice pic, and lets see some numbers from India. They have one of the big carriers there and I think the numbers will surprise people.
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@Dtest54: According to Engadget Mobile, India is charging your first born plus a pony.
engadgetmobile: 2008/08/20/iphone-3g-starting-at-700-in-india-lines-to-be-nonexistent/
(working links go for moderation)
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lol thats kind of messed up!!
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The iPhone also went on sale in Greece. You think the states are bad come here and just try to purchase one (basically impossible). After I finally found someone that actually knew what they where talking about it took them over an hour to figure out the system. Once the system was up and running again (5 hours later) I had to fill out forms in triplicate (I guess they don’t believe in saving the environment). Once that was done then they moved me to another counter which she took all my billing information. Once again the printer started in triplicate (you sign less papers when you buy a home). It was finally done, I paid for my phone 569.00 euros (price is without starting a new contract) and then she told me I could pick up my phone in three days. I asked her, “do you have them in stock”? She replied “Yes we do”. No need to go on with the conversation, basically there was a lot of yelling involved in greek. So the bottom line is I have to wait for 3 days. The only good things is it works with Pay as you go plans. So you guys living in the beautiful United States of America you really don’t have it that bad.
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The picture reminds me of something the Beatles once said which got them into some trouble.
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MadMike,
thats alot of money but I still think it will sell well. Some coworkers were there in June and saw quite a few iphones. There are plenty of people with money that will pay for an unsubsidized phone.
Give it a couple months and see how vodaphone & airtel move iphone in india.
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Oh great, all we need now is a big explosion of people screaming “OMG, they used Jesus using the iPhone that’s blasphemy!”
C’mon - If Jesus used a cell phone, he’d have a sidekick!
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Dtest54,
Well looking at India’s phone prices, its only about 25% more. So you may be right.
They are a fast-growing market as India is really moving fast to becoming a real world power in terms of commerce and GDP.
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As you already know that a petition has been started in India to cut the price of iPhone 3G.
Here is the link
http://snipurl.com/3iu3h
or snipurl(dot)com/31u3h
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we’ve had the iphone 3g here in singapore since the 22nd of august. that was the 2nd international launch date, not the 25th, as far as i know.
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yeah I’m not surprised but it is unsubsidized atleast.
They will sell though and people will unlock a ton of them their to run on the other networks.
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Great! Now BGR has its very own low-brow provocateur where all-things-Apple are concerned. As if the internet needed just one more flame-baiter!
HINT: It’s not a zero-sum game.
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Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jews, Muslims, Atheists etc. etc. etc. are all using the iPhone!!!
You therefore need a set of pictures in addition to the one with Jesus holding iPhone, to truly show how popular iPhone is !!!
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It’s meant to show how overhyped the phone is. We hold it on a pedestal one minute and in the next breath we are cursing it for all of its flaws.
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^ If so, no one more than Jesus could appreciate being overhyped.
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I posted a thread over at the HoFo T-Mobile forums and made the unfortunate mistake of referring to the iPhone as the “Jesus Phone”. It nearly started another crusade! I can only imagine what would have happened if I called it the “Allah Phone”.
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Hm… I guess this will save me a trip to Thailand when all my cousins pool their monies for a US iPhone.
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The picture reminds me of something the Beatles once said which got them into some trouble.
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@backbeat: Hahaha. I’m going to hell for laughing at that!
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Why do you guys cross out sentences in ur articles??
example;
Worry not - many more nations will experience the buggy joy that is the Jesusphone II.
This is crossed out in this article.
Not sure if you know but, i can can still see this and am able to read it.
On top of which, the things that are crossed out are the things that make the genius report interesting and in most crossed out cases, wickedly funny.
so, either stop apologizing for being funny by crossing things out or, check ur source code if crossing things out is somehow supposed to magically make sentences disappear from the articles.
ps.
and about the people who get offended by ur comments (perhaps why u cross them out), simply tell them politelly to never ever come back to this blog.
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MaxPayne79: It actually adds to the humor. It stems from ye old days of lore called unix terminals where the backspace key was mapped to literally “^H” if your system had the wrong terminal-type set up if you went to delete something it would show up as “she’s ugly^H^H^H^Hpretty”.
It’s to show “shooting from the hip” and not thinking before you type in the same way.
Now a days you see “^H” used a lot in slashdot comments. Newer blogs use crossout. It does the same thing.
They also use it to show a correction.
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maxpayne, you tell BG how he and his people should post then go on to say that people who are offended (who tell them what / how to post) should never read the blog.
Maybe people in general who tell him how his site should be run should not come back, ok?
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Maxpayne, this is the last time I will be reading bgr, nothing but bad news, well like all media bad news sell.
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