iPhone proliferates around the globe, the madness spreads

By on Aug 25, 2008 at 11:53 AM
General August 25, 2008

The iPhone 3G must have a lot of frequent-flyer miles, because it’s certainly getting around. Today, over 21 additional countries including: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, India, Latvia, Lithuania, Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia and Uruguay have launched the iPhone 3G. This brings iPhone availability up to 43 countries total, and an expected 70 by the end of 2008. Worry not – many more nations will experience the buggy joy that is the Jesusphone II. How many countries have you been to? We might hit up Mexico, we heard they don’t extradite people from there for leaking phones… The real question is, any of our international friends buying an iPhone 3G today?

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  • Michael

    You must be joking. Aren’t you the same person who said that the iPhone wouldn’t be practical until it had 3 G? Now isn’t the blame for much of the “buggy” behavior of the Jesusphone, the buggy 3 G networks of the carriers? Are you enjoying the cake and eating it too? I know it’s great fun to poke at the lemmings marching off the cliff, but in this case aren’t you being smug about your own stupidity (sour grapes)?

  • EduardoE

    Here in Chile we had the same iPhone madness than in US or Japan. Both companies (Claro and Movistar) prepared shows, including the selling of the “firsts iPhone’s 3G in Chile” on Friday midnight.

    Was excesive the coverage. In every single newspaper and tv shows was “The news of the day”, and we had to support an excesive number of tv ads (including one of Don Francisco for Claro).

    Now the things are returning to normality, and are appearing some interesting things, related to obscure tricks of Claro.

  • Matt

    ok, I know someone else said it too, but lose the photo BG. Photoshopping an iPhone into the hand of our Lord isn’t funny.

  • Bryan

    Yeah, I bought on the first hour it launched here in Singapore.

  • MaxPayne79

    MadMike: Thanx man. I really had no idea it had anything to do with anything. I really thought it was simply used for corrections. But that never made any sense to me cause if u don’t want something to appear in an article, u simply just don’t have it appear. Fascinating stuff. Thanx.

    Dtest54: It was a jokie joke. Eazy now. :)

    AdamC: Right on brother. That’s the spirit. You tell bgr who the man is.

  • Tom Smith

    This is offensive.

  • backbeat

    @Matt: He may be your lord (of choice), but that dictates nothing to the rest of the sane world.

  • Dan T

    Launched in Romania. They sold about 200 phones in the night they launched (in 4 biggest cities), mostly to 16 year old kids (as press related). To me it sounds like (huge) failure … but probably many prefer an unlocked version bought cheaper from USA. And yes, enough romanians paid a lot of money for Nokia N95 which are quite frequent or even expensive sport cars so it’s not about the money. Apple stores empty in the weekend of the launch. This is kinda strange as many of the rich romanians like to display their wealth by buying very expensive stuff. There are certain hotel parkings here where you can see 3 Mercedes SLR near some Ferrari and Bugatti, all with romanian plates, so there are enough people ready to pay any amount to stand out in the crowd (kinda like rich russians do, but at a smaller level as the population is a lot smaller). So USA and UK success does not seem to repeat in every country.

  • http://www.inovus.com.mx betoMx

    Ummm, I’m not sure I understood your Mexico thing. You want to leak the jPhone II?

    It came out (in Mexico) the same day than the States (July 10, 11?) and it has sold thousands of units.

    If thats not what I mean… point and laugh at me.

  • Paul from HK

    Reporting from Hong Kong, the iPhone 3G has been around for a few months now, I must say it’s not doing that well. You see, over here we have a technology driving market and the iPhone just doesn’t cut it… no MMS, crappy camera, huge in size, no HSDPA 7.2M (let alone 14.4 which is now availble), and I must say Apple have partnered with the crappiest operator here who don’t even offer unlimited data.

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