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Posted by Rod in Apple, Communications at 8:34 am on Friday, 2 November 2007
Not sure on the legalities of this but …http://www.nziphone.co.nz With GMail now doing iMap, the iPhone is looking great for individuals and small businesses without an Enterprise email system.Â
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Rod - with Gmail doing imap there is now a cloud based enterprise email system - iPhone or otherwise!
Well, I’ve got one, the wife took one look at it, chucked my hand-me-down RAZR back in my lap and said, “Take this garbage back, I want one of those!”
I fear the non-techies buying unlocked phones, and then clicking the big, huge, impressive, pleading “Upgrade Now!” button in the middle of their iTunes screen. I had enough trouble with my upgrade to not want to have to support other people through theirs.
Eek!
Interesting site…The only problem is that they don’t list a price on the site at all. I’m, not sure that is the best way of converting browsers into buyers.
To any comments regarding pricing, I emailed the address and reprint the response verbatim:
“Hi Jonathan,
Thanks for your interest. The price is $950 if you need it in 3 days, and $900 if you are willing to wait for 3 weeks
Have a good day!
Victor”
Relatively steep compared to the US price, but I guess if and/or when the iPhone is released in NZ, I’m sure it’ll cost more than that. I’m keen to get an iPhone, but hmmm, $900 is a lot of money. My main use cases are portable (wi-fi) email and internet. I do not really want a phone (I’m a vodafone prepay customer (the joy of being a student…)).
I’d be keen to hear others thoughts.
@Jonathan Giles: If you don’t need the phone then get the iPod Touch. I have one and it is great. One-touch Jailbreak and all the iPhone apps work on it.
If you buy from these cowboys you’re a mug.
Why?
They are parallel importing a product you could get yourself for a fraction of the price from the US.
They are anonymous. Don’t do business online with people who won’t offer full disclosure of who they are - and don’t give them your credit card details. (Just basic best practice for ecommerce; actually any commerce).
Fetishising the iPhone is just daft. If you pull one out in a meeting with me I’ll know you’re a git at that will be that.
Great news, I hope the iPhone will take off in NZ soon.
An alternative is Toshcomputers:
I bought my iPhone from Toshcomputers two months ago (http://www.toshcomputers.com/) and have absolutely no regrets.
First of all I just love my iPhone (the killer feature for me is the wi-fi access).
Secondly, Toshcomputers have been a pleasure to do business with:
- prompt delivery
- transparency around the process
- frequent communication about the delivery status of my iPhone
- interested in feedback
- phone works perfectly well with Vodafone sim
I second the review of toshcomputers.com I’ve bought both of my iphones from him. The last one I bought was even in stock - no waiting.
However, you do have to demonstrate to him that you know how to unlock it before he’ll sell you one.
haha “iMap”, it is IMAP, Apple doesn’t own everything!
[gloat] as owner of NZ’s first iPhone (currently for sale? http://www.drury.net.nz/2007/07/02/simmsy-claims-first-nz-iphone/), I must say that I’m surprised by the profiteering tossers who prey on the poor unsuspecting punter who will naturally by a local iPhone with the expectation of pressing “upgrade” and not knowing what to do.
Warning: You void the warranty once hacked(and its already voided if you buy the $1000 hacked one from a local parallel import store). The caveat is that if you don’t REALLY read the instructions and forums on the web, it’ll explode in your face and you’ll have to pay some geek many $$ to get you back on the network.
Vive’ la iPhone! Don’t be a muppet…
The English experience of the iPhone “juggernaut”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/11/iphone_uk_flop/
I think the reason for this is that the English are a little more practical about things like this than silicon valley types. Also there are a lot of phone choices in the UK and talking to the assistant manager at the Carphone Warehouse at Waterloo Station Tuesday he said, as far as phones go their are much better phones. And I think that’s the issue, as phones go its average.
Still I had never seen one in the flesh and was very impressed. So much so that I did the practical thing and bought a iPod Touch which is the iPhone without the camera and phone (neither of which are class leading).
The Touch as a web browser is simply stunning, I can think of many uses.
I had never used a lot of Wi-Fi outside of at home and work until this trip but enough to say London is covered in it. Good opportunity for someone to do something in NZ’s cities.
iPhone using IMAP on Google Apps (Gmail) is the perfect email solution in my opinion. Phone, Outlook and Webmail all in sync. I can access all my historic mail from anywhere. I was concerned that I would miss the Blackberry, but this is a far better mail solution, even if the touch screen is not as good for typing as the Crackberry.
There is no need to buy local though, mine came from the US last month and was easy enough to get activated. I didn’t even need to downgrade from 1.1.1 software.
If anyone is interested in hooking their iPhone up to an enterprise groupware solution (Exchange, Notes) for Push Email, full sync of calendar/contacts/tasks/etc we will have support out in a few months…see here for more info:
http://www.ianywhere.com/press_releases/enterprise_email_apple_iphone.html
You might even be able to lose the Blackberry?! :)
I am trying to get the beta client if anyone is interested please get in touch - rik@medios.co.nz.
Regards
Rik