An anonymous tipster has leaked what appears to be instructions for the Canadian iPhone launch on Rogers; including the link to a special version of iTunes which allows stores to ‘unlock’ their iPhone so that they can use them as a display unit in store.
The leaked document reads:
In order to unbrick the iPhone in store (which is a requirement of the iPhone Sales Process), you must have iTunes version 7.6.3b4. Installed on your computer. This version has a special ‘Activation Only Mode’ that must be enabled and used in store.
Pretty interesting stuff, though it would not really be that useful anyway; you’re still required to sign up for a contract to get the iPhone in most country’s.
After yesterdays rumours of a very highly priced 3G iPhone in the UK, O2 have today revealed the much speculated pricing – and we’re pretty damn happy!
Let’s get straight in to it… The 8gb 3G iPhone will cost £299 (pretty close to our prediction of £279!) The 16gb will cost £359.99. And guess what? All users get 6 months FREE unlimited 3G and WiFi access. That is pretty fucking awesome. Sign me up for the 16gb model.
You can get more information directly from O2 by clicking here.
Update: Mysteriously, all mention of these figures have vanished from the O2 site in the past ten minutes. Maybe they were not supposed to upload this information so early? Hmm, strange.
Gadget magazine Stuff is reporting that they have confirmation on the price of the 3G iPhone over here in the UK – and if it’s true, there are going to be a lot of pissed off people.
According to Stuff, the 8gb model will come clocking in at a massive £370 (~$750) while the 16gb will be a hefty £470 (~$950) – ouch. This is by no means officially confirmed, though Stuff have had a decent track record when it comes to rumours. Of course, this means our own predictions were way off. Maybe we were just dreaming.
So yeah – there may be some truth in these numbers; but really, £470?Ouch. That’s more expensive than a PlayStation 3.
We had seen this coming for quite a while, but the very popular online video streaming service Qik has just announced it’s plans to bring the service to the 1 million+ iPhone users around the world.
Currently the application is only available on jailbroken devices, but we may have a chance of seeing this thing on the App Store; only time will tell.
Early this morning, Vodafone Italy announced they will be offering a pay as you go (no contract) version of the 3G iPhone (following O2’s announcement for the UK) and have set an out of contract price of €499/€569 for the 8GB/16GB models, respectively. This is pretty steep; certainly higher than what we predicted, though if you compare it to other contract-free smart phones, it is competitively priced.
As of today there is still no news on the UK pay-as-you go pricing.
