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June 29, 2007

3G iPhone For Europe To Be Announced Monday?

Duncan Riley

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europaiphone.jpgA 3G iPhone for Europe will be announced Monday, according to an unconfirmed report from Guy Kewney at Newswireless.

Engadget points out that Kewney was recently eWeek.com’s European wireless editor and would be well placed to know.

The European 3G iPhone is said to be distributed via Carphone Warehouse with Vodafone in the UK and T-Mobile in Germany the European carriers. No word yet on other European countries. The phone is said to go on sale in Europe before the end of the year.

If the rumor is true (and it is just a rumor at this stage) it’s a positive sign for the rest of the world, particularly Australasia where the slower 2G systems are being phased out as 3G coverage is already ubiquitous. It would also create two tiers of iPhone users: Americans with the slower 2.5G versions and the rest of us with much faster 3G versions; as the saying goes: all good things come to those who wait.

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  1. Alaska Miller

    June 29th, 2007 at 5:30 pm

    I have a tip that iPhone for Asia will announced on Tuesday. It will use i-mode and feature 100 gb of internal flash memory.

    This will create three classes of iPhone users in the world: the destitute, the poor, and the chosen ones who have 200gb iPhones.

    You should trust me because I ran a website covering Asia technology markets.

  2. lawrence

    June 29th, 2007 at 5:44 pm

    unrelated to the post topic, sorry…

    but look at those stupid f8cks on ebay selling their iphones they waited in line for. smiling with their iphones and all

  3. Paul Enderson

    June 29th, 2007 at 5:49 pm

    Blimey! Makes a nice change getting the better end of a deal like that!

    Not that I have *any* intention of buying the over-hyped, under-specced, out-of-date-already iPhone anyway! ;)

    Just placed my order for a new HTC S710. Expandable memory, proper keyboard, unlocked for any network, 3G, Wi-Fi, and the sixth incarnation of what was a pretty stable OS to start with! And all for less than $500… ;)

    I wonder whether all the people queuing outside the Apple shops at the moment will wake up in the morning feeling like you do on Boxing Day?

  4. Allen Stern

    June 29th, 2007 at 6:00 pm

    I think we all discount the intelligence of apple. Give the investors everything at once, get only one stock bump.

    Do things in phases, get multi-bumps.

  5. BEAVERTON_HUSTLA

    June 29th, 2007 at 6:43 pm

    USA USERS PWNED BY LACK OF 2100MHZ UMTS/WCDMA NETWORK

  6. Spuds

    June 29th, 2007 at 7:41 pm

    The sooner it arrives in New Zealand on the 3G network from Vodafone the happier I will be. I want one know!

  7. Jorge

    June 29th, 2007 at 8:06 pm

    I heard they were releasing a 100 TB iPhone in Antarctica. The phone will cost $250 and will work with or without a network provider. If you don’t choose a network provider, it’ll use Wi-Fi and a free Skype-like service to make your calls. Plus, it even has a 3D interface so you don’t ever have to touch the screen at all!

    You can believe me because I was Apple’s PR man in the Freeze for a decade.

  8. coolkid

    June 29th, 2007 at 8:58 pm

    My guess is that the European model will indeed be 3G, but because these units use far more power and space than the EDGE chipsets, the wifi will be omitted from the model. This would make perfect sense because in the US Apple felt that it would be better to comprise because of the lack of 3G networks, and the decided to include wifi.

  9. dennis

    June 30th, 2007 at 12:12 am

    a 3G version of iphone would definitely be nice in asia too… :)

  10. toivo

    June 30th, 2007 at 1:12 am

    Have you intentionally left Finland and Sweden out of the map? :)

  11. Kevyn

    June 30th, 2007 at 1:53 am

    @coolkid: The size of the iPhone could easily fit in 3G if the Edge chip was removed. Have you seen the recent 3G phones available on the market? Tiny and slim, not the bricks of a year ot two ago. They cannot take the Wi-Fi chip of the the iPhone because most of the rivals to the iPhone have both 3G and Wi-Fi. My Sony Ericsson P990i is smaller (slightly) then the iPhone and it has 3G and Wi-Fi so I can’t see why it cannot be included. Edge can easily be removed as it’s not used in Europe.

  12. Call Me X

    June 30th, 2007 at 3:21 am

    I just wish they made better choices over networks.

    A 3G phone would be better on the three network in the UK given they are all about 3G and have the best support for the service. All the other networks here are pants (I’ve tried them all).

    I would rather go without, then go on an inferior network. You need the service as well as the phone otherwise its a dud, IMHO.

  13. phoneguy

    July 1st, 2007 at 3:03 am

    does anyone know the reason why the slower chip set was chosen for the us? i heard it had more to do with at&t than apple.

    http://www.iphonehotornot.com

  14. Dave

    July 1st, 2007 at 8:28 am

    I really really hope, that Apple won’t be that stupid to force customers to use a special network provider (t-mobile or vodafone would really suck). hopefully they’ll choose one of the underdogs in germany (o2 or eplus) or just give every provider the ability to sell the iphone. but i doubt they’ll be that wise.

  15. SAm

    July 1st, 2007 at 1:36 pm

    The slower chip set was chosen because it gets much better battery life than the G3 chip. That is what Steve Jobs said.

  16. Ramkumar

    July 1st, 2007 at 6:09 pm

    3G would just make the iPhone so much more attractive to me. Asia should have 3G too.

  17. security

    July 2nd, 2007 at 7:02 am

    It is now Monday Afternoon in Europe and still not announcement.

    Perhaps there will be one at a later date.

  18. jbolles

    July 2nd, 2007 at 1:21 pm

    The EDGE network was chosen because AT&T is WAY behind in rolling out their 3G network. Only about 1% of AT&T subscribers have access to 3G networks, while Verizon and Sprint have rolled out EV-DO to nearly 70% of their subscribers. Before the iPhone, AT&T was targeting individuals who wanted phones first (see RAZR being the biggest seller) while Sprint and Verizon were targeting business and power users. AT&T was very slow to adopt Smartphones, which maybe why they went after the iPhone so aggressively. Expect a 3G phone in Europe soon, hopefully coming back the States as AT&T gets their act together, and the new network rolled out.

  19. iPod Radar

    July 4th, 2007 at 8:47 am

    These sorts of deprecated browsing environments (e.g. EDGE network, alternate rendering engines) are yet another good reason to design lean, standards-based web pages. If more sites were well designed (not visually but overall) there’d be less to complain about.

    Also, if you’re looking for more iPhone news, reviews and info, I’ve got a mini iPhone mashup set up here…

    http://ipodradar.com/iphone/

    You’ll find news from Google news, links from delicious, and blog posts from Technorati. And you can track eBay auctions by price and date.

  20. Officekitchen

    July 13th, 2007 at 4:54 pm

    But a euro/asia 3G phone won’t work on US 3G,but may be unlocked? Ug. So much, but so little - toy?

  21. Wacko

    July 16th, 2007 at 12:18 am

    It’s 10:19 AM in Romania(GMT +2:00h)…I’m waiting for the announcement.

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