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Re: iPhones for New Zealand: iPhone Unlocked

Dave — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:23:29 -0000

Hi Can anyone recommend someone to unlock my iphone, tryed to do an update last night and the phone locked

Re: iPhones for New Zealand: iPhone Unlocked

hanna — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:57:03 -0000

@peppery

Do the old iPhones work if they are unlocked as they do in the states?

Re: iPhones for New Zealand: iPhone Unlocked

Peppery — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:26:38 -0000

@Matt:

What do you mean "iPhones in nz yet"? If you want to pick one up from Vodafone on July 11th, it'll be cheap but be prepared to pay a hefty price on the 2 year contract. I have a hacked one from the states. :)

Re: iPhones for New Zealand: iPhone Unlocked

Matt — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:27:06 -0000

are iphones in nz yet? and if so where can i get a cheep one bt the real deal

Re: iPhones for New Zealand: iPhone Unlocked

Peppery — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:58:40 -0000

@Stu:

I haven't had any problems with Vodafone's UTMS network. I use it daily.

Re: iPhones for New Zealand: iPhone Unlocked

Gredge — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:47:04 -0000

Heyup. I wouldn't do this unless I knew you lot, because it'd sound too much like astroturfing, but... we had an iPhone in the office last week (Daryl's, brought back from Cupertino) and It. Is. Sensational. It really, truly is as lovely as it's reported to be. Seriously. Size, weight, unscratchability, speed, stability, interface... and the touching thing has to be touched to be believed. It is so oddly intuitive, in terms of pressure, contact point(s) and movement, but best of all it's a technology on top of a GUI with the basics done just right. Anyone who picked it up at any stage used it easily and loved it.

For comparison Liuh Shyuan brought her new HTC Touch and oh my GOD it was SOOOO embarrassing. You have to DRAG your finger across the screen. It's a rub-screen or a wipe-screen phone, not a touch-screen. Sometimes. When it works. When you sort of get it right. And once out of the "flow" bit (by accident) it's just a shitty, too small, hideous-GUI windows phone. And not one of the twelve technophiles in the office could find their way back to the "flow" interface unaided, and even then couldn't repeat it unaided.

It was like vintage champagne vs flat homebrew.

Of course, not having CDMA or 3G or a decent camera is a bit lame tho.

Re: iPhones for New Zealand: iPhone Unlocked

Stu — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:20:48 -0000

Vodafone NZ have UTMS 3G but yeah it ain't cheap and the service is pretty sub-standard imho. Despite the fact UTMS promises fast connection times for data Vodafone's mobile data network still takes 3-4 seconds to form a data connection in my experience which is rather poor.

Mind you the iPhone doesn't really grab me, I've used a lot of smartphones with large screens in the past and frankly find them a hassle. They simply don't work as phones without some kind of hands-free kit. Otherwise you're mashing a delicate touch screen up against the greasy side of your head regularly...

Re: iPhones for New Zealand: iPhone Unlocked

Peppery — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:46:51 -0000

I did look there. I called XP Computers a while ago and they said that they didn't have any and wouldn't be getting any more. I'd also rather not order online and Birkenhead is a bit too far away :p

Re: iPhones for New Zealand: iPhone Unlocked

Ben — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:32:12 -0000

Peppery, try Pricespy.co.nz. They're listing 3 suppliers with prices for E70s. No idea if they have stock.

I got mine from Parallel Imported about a year ago now. I'm really wondering if Nokia are going to release a new version, or are banking on the E90 taking over the same space.

Re: iPhones for New Zealand: iPhone Unlocked

JC — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:37:17 -0000

Hey Ben, remember how it was my birthday last week (ish)?

*cough* iphone plx *cough*

Re: iPhones for New Zealand: iPhone Unlocked

Peppery — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:04:33 -0000

This sure will be interesting. One thing to note is that Vodafone NZ doesn't support EDGE and GPRS wireless data is really expensive.

Also, may I ask where you found a Nokia E70 in New Zealand? I've been in the market for a new phone for a while and I looked around a bit for the Nokia E70 to no avail.