Cnet says the iPhone will be available on June 11 according to a customer service manager at Cingular. I’ve tried to follow news stories by calling my carrier’s customer service line and asking questions — often I’ve found the results to be unreliable. But who knows.
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10:04 AM PT
Why does apple not sell the iphone unlocked?
All major retailers in europe/asia sell high end phones Unlocked/Unbranded.
11:37 AM PT
I tried the Cingular/ATT 800 line also, and the agent said she had no idea when the iphone will be released and she went on the Apple web site while i was on the line, saying there was no information there. I think the date is speculation, and Apple’s reps won’t comment. Still, it makes total sense to release it June 11, start of WWDC. I wonder if the hotels will be filled and the roadways jammed in SF that day…the intrigue!
11:41 AM PT
Because some features of the Iphone (like the new voicemail) need infrastructure modification, and Apple don’t want to sell his Iphone without guarantying his customers “the full experience”.
5:46 PM PT
Sure Oliver, it had nothing to do with the guaranteed handset sales and revenue share Cingular gave them.
9:16 PM PT
I think Olivier is pretty correct though: Take out Visual Voicemail and the Iphone looks like a lot of other phones, feature wise. The no-tactile-feedback inteface seems a bit of a worry to me, but I’ll forgive it everything if it’s quickly hacked to run everyone’s third party software, and then if someone produces a cute VOIP client that integrates well in to the rest of the phone’s interface.
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