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AT&T: There's A $39 Charge To Exchange Your Defective iPhone
Canadians need not be denied iPhone experience
PC Mag: Apple iPhone Review
Orange to offer unlocked iPhones for €749
Clever marketing: Debitel launches €600 rebate for unlocked iPhone purchasers
AT&T: There's A $39 Charge To Exchange Your Defective iPhone
consumerist.com reports:
Apple has a 10% restocking fee on opened non-defective products, but AT&T seems to think that this applies to iPhones that are defective right out of the box.
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Canadians need not be denied iPhone experience
CanWest News Service's Basem Boshra says:
Succumbing to the hype and buying one of the most buzzed-about consumer products in ages - from a corporate titan like Apple, no less - doesn't exactly scream "Stick it to the man!" yet I've been feeling like a bit of a rebel since buying my iPhone.
"Wait a minute," you might be saying to yourself, "I thought they weren't selling the iPhone in Canada yet?"
True enough. But if you simply can't wait until Rogers (the only wireless carrier in Canada whose network supports the iPhone's technology) starts selling it here - and it still hasn't announced when or even if that might be - there's no reason that, with a little resourcefulness, you can't get your hands on the most highly coveted high-tech gift of the year.
To read more, click here.
PC Mag: Apple iPhone Review
It's the best portable media player ever. It's possibly the most fun we've ever had with a handheld device. It browses the Web like a champ. Yet as a voice phone and a messaging device, it's a loser. The iPhone is full of contradictions.
To read more, go to:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2082361,00.asp
Orange to offer unlocked iPhones for €749
The Register's Tony Smith reports:
Orange France will sell Apple's iPhone to consumers who don't want to be tied to the carrier, provided they cough up €749 for the handset - €250 less than T-Mobile Germany's unlocked iPhones cost.
Orange said it will offer four iPhone-oriented price plans ranging from €49 to €119 per month. Data usage is capped at 500MB a month, and the carrier admitted that "modem access, VoIP, P2P and [bizarrely] newsgroup usage is strictly forbidden", though that's over Edge connections rather than the handset's built-in Wi-Fi link.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/11/28/orange_prices_up_iphone/
Clever marketing: Debitel launches €600 rebate for unlocked iPhone purchasers
Blackfriars Marketing reports:
T-Mobile competitor Debitel came up with a clever way to offer iPhones on its network. Simply offer a 600 euro sign-up bonus to customers and have them buy an unlocked iPhone from T-Mobile. Customers end up paying the same net €399 price for the iPhone and get to use it on Debitel's network.
It's too bad unlocked iPhones aren't available in the US; otherwise, T-Mobile could use the same tactic to steal iPhone customers away from AT&T.
For the full report click here.
http://www.blackfriarsinc.com/blog/2007/11/clever-marketing-debitel-launches-600
Charles W. Moore
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