Comments on: iPhone proliferates around the globe, the madness spreads

By: Paul from HK

Paul from HK — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:44:15 +0000

Reporting from Hong Kong, the iPhone 3G has been around for a few months now, I must say it’s not doing that well. You see, over here we have a technology driving market and the iPhone just doesn’t cut it… no MMS, crappy camera, huge in size, no HSDPA 7.2M (let alone 14.4 which is now availble), and I must say Apple have partnered with the crappiest operator here who don’t even offer unlimited data.

By: betoMx

betoMx — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:07:07 +0000

Ummm, I’m not sure I understood your Mexico thing. You want to leak the jPhone II?

It came out (in Mexico) the same day than the States (July 10, 11?) and it has sold thousands of units.

If thats not what I mean… point and laugh at me.

By: Dan T

Dan T — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:45:56 +0000

Launched in Romania. They sold about 200 phones in the night they launched (in 4 biggest cities), mostly to 16 year old kids (as press related). To me it sounds like (huge) failure … but probably many prefer an unlocked version bought cheaper from USA. And yes, enough romanians paid a lot of money for Nokia N95 which are quite frequent or even expensive sport cars so it’s not about the money. Apple stores empty in the weekend of the launch. This is kinda strange as many of the rich romanians like to display their wealth by buying very expensive stuff. There are certain hotel parkings here where you can see 3 Mercedes SLR near some Ferrari and Bugatti, all with romanian plates, so there are enough people ready to pay any amount to stand out in the crowd (kinda like rich russians do, but at a smaller level as the population is a lot smaller). So USA and UK success does not seem to repeat in every country.

By: backbeat

backbeat — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:25:52 +0000

@Matt: He may be your lord (of choice), but that dictates nothing to the rest of the sane world.

By: Tom Smith

Tom Smith — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:51:35 +0000

This is offensive.

By: MaxPayne79

MaxPayne79 — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:39:48 +0000

MadMike: Thanx man. I really had no idea it had anything to do with anything. I really thought it was simply used for corrections. But that never made any sense to me cause if u don’t want something to appear in an article, u simply just don’t have it appear. Fascinating stuff. Thanx.

Dtest54: It was a jokie joke. Eazy now.

AdamC: Right on brother. That’s the spirit. You tell bgr who the man is.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:07:00 +0000

Yeah, I bought on the first hour it launched here in Singapore.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:17:54 +0000

ok, I know someone else said it too, but lose the photo BG. Photoshopping an iPhone into the hand of our Lord isn’t funny.

By: EduardoE

EduardoE — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:09:54 +0000

Here in Chile we had the same iPhone madness than in US or Japan. Both companies (Claro and Movistar) prepared shows, including the selling of the “firsts iPhone’s 3G in Chile” on Friday midnight.

Was excesive the coverage. In every single newspaper and tv shows was “The news of the day”, and we had to support an excesive number of tv ads (including one of Don Francisco for Claro).

Now the things are returning to normality, and are appearing some interesting things, related to obscure tricks of Claro.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:40:20 +0000

You must be joking. Aren’t you the same person who said that the iPhone wouldn’t be practical until it had 3 G? Now isn’t the blame for much of the “buggy” behavior of the Jesusphone, the buggy 3 G networks of the carriers? Are you enjoying the cake and eating it too? I know it’s great fun to poke at the lemmings marching off the cliff, but in this case aren’t you being smug about your own stupidity (sour grapes)?

By: AdamC

AdamC — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:18:29 +0000

Maxpayne, this is the last time I will be reading bgr, nothing but bad news, well like all media bad news sell.

By: Dtest54

Dtest54 — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:05:41 +0000

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?

By: MadMike

MadMike — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:56:50 +0000

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.

By: MaxPayne79

MaxPayne79 — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:51:31 +0000

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.

By: MadMike

MadMike — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:44:08 +0000

@backbeat: Hahaha. I’m going to hell for laughing at that!

By: Navigator

Navigator — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:43:13 +0000

email incorrectly entered in original comment:

The picture reminds me of something the Beatles once said which got them into some trouble.

By: Siam Luu

Siam Luu — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:36:18 +0000

Hm… I guess this will save me a trip to Thailand when all my cousins pool their monies for a US iPhone.

By: RAS

RAS — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:33:24 +0000

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”.

By: backbeat

backbeat — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:26:18 +0000

^ If so, no one more than Jesus could appreciate being overhyped.

By: MadMike

MadMike — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:20:19 +0000

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.

By: Viswakarma

Viswakarma — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:15:57 +0000

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 !!!

By: backbeat

backbeat — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:46:01 +0000

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.

By: Dtest54

Dtest54 — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:38:05 +0000

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.

By: sangsara

sangsara — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:33:30 +0000

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.

By: Samrat Mazumdar

Samrat Mazumdar — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:20:21 +0000

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

By: MadMike

MadMike — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:15:52 +0000

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.

By: MadMike

MadMike — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:13:23 +0000

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!

By: Dtest54

Dtest54 — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:07:42 +0000

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.

By: Navigator

Navigator — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:58:08 +0000

The picture reminds me of something the Beatles once said which got them into some trouble.

By: Panos

Panos — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:46:33 +0000

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.