Vodafone employee 'leaks' 3G iPhone thoughts

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Monday, 09 June 2008 08:48

Your IT - Mobility

While iPhoneAtlas don’t actually list any of those carriers beyond some of the handful of carriers that have already indicated they will sell the iPhone “later this year”, it seems obvious, if the leak is true, that many more carriers will be known tomorrow.

Some of the carriers who haven’t been announced probably have mainly, or only, 3G networks, a feature of the next iPhone that Apple has, in vain, tried to keep secret – despite Steve Jobs saying a 3G iPhone would come back in January 2007.

Australians already know that Vodafone and Optus will soon be selling the iPhone, but what we’d also like to know is if Telstra and Three will sell the iPhone, too.

Telstra’s data plans are the most expensive, while Three Mobile’s are the cheapest, but no-one yet knows what new deals Apple has done to ensure officially purchased iPhones come with generous data plans.

Naturally, everyone who wants to buy a 3G iPhone is hoping that Apple has managed to get ‘unlimited’ or very generous data plans for the iPhone, simply because the iPhone is such a data hungry device what with its Safari browser, iTunes store and upcoming App Store.

The only other question now too is how long it will take the hackers to crack the 3G iPhone. Looks like Apple has done everything in its power to keep the 3G iPhone locked down hard.

But is there any lock that hasn’t been broken in some way?