Apple Euro / UK iPhone announcement Next Tuesday? (18/09)

Mac World (UK) via Mac Rumours is reporting that a special event is being held next Tuesday (18/10) At the Apple Store on Regent's Street.

http://www.macrumors.com/2007/09/13/apple-uk-special-event-september-18th-2007/

Is this it? Will we finally know exactly when we can get our grubby mits on an iPhone?

GOO waits with baited breath.

 

*moves seating possition one foot forward to the edge of seat and procedes to hyperventilate*

 

ZoopZoop!

Im working on that day and im 5mins walk away!

I might go and take some pics of the event.

 

*Joins you*

I'll have to go and get the money I gave to my girlfriends uncle back now (He was going to get me three from the US).

 

You'll probably still want to get it from the US, considering the price that they're going to charge over here for it.

 

Maybe, unless the EU iPhone is 16gb and 3G.

 

Pleeeease say it will have 3G for the euro launch!

 

Unlikely, as O2 have switched on / are in the process of switching on Edge.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42210

In related news, the hacks over at the reg are upset they didn't get an invite

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/09/13/rh_edblog_2/

 

Yay... a slow data standard

 

I still don't get why everyone drools over the iPhone... Sure it looks pretty and has a snazzy UI, but it's not enough to counter the bad points IMHO

Massively overpriced* and locked-down to silly levels**... what good is a PDA you can't install 3rd-party apps on?


*you can get equivalent-specced PDA-phones for free or nearly free on contract. Making the iPhone, even with the recent price cut, orders of magnitude more expensive
**Microsoft gave up on PDA/smartphone app-lockdown almost a decade ago now as it was a stupid idea... i thought apple was supposed to be innovative?

 

Ever heard of updates?

Many people are sure that the iPhone will receive many updates during its course of existance, and I'm pretty sure by the end of next year it will become a full PDA type thing.

 

True, but it's kind of silly buying such an expensive item now on the basis that it *may* get updated to remove some of the bad points in the future if you ask me.

At least with other PDA's/smartphones if you don't like the way it does something, you can install a program/tweak to set it right.

 

So, just like the iPhone, eh?

Native Apps:
http://iphone.fiveforty.net/wiki/index.php/GUI_Applications

Web based / browser apps:
http://www.iphoneapps.org/apps/

And list is getting longer.

 

The big question is how much are the contract plans going to cost? You can't even get unlimited data with O2 on normal plans you have to go a with a business account and a blackberry.

The only reason i would want the iPhone is for the Internet and the fact that safari browser doesn't change the way you view the web page's it just scales down which can be scale up and down with your fingers kick ass. This is what i think would be more suitable for me HERE I've already ordered the damn iPod Touch anyway so no iPhone for me.

 

I stand corrected

Reading about it though, it still seems to be a dirty hack to enable them (though it has a nice installer)

 

/me pre-orders a Neo1973

 

Apple have also said that they don't mind the hacks but they also won't go out of there way to not break them when they update the firmware.

 

I would have considered one of these, if it hadnt been with o2 Why couldn't vodafone have got it?
Looks like its just an ipod touch for me.