Comments on: iPhones for New Zealand: iPhone Unlocked

By: Dave

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

By: hanna

hanna — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:57:03 +0000

@peppery

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

By: hanna

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?

By: Peppery

Peppery — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:26:38 +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.

By: Peppery

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

@Matt:

By: Matt

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

By: Peppery

Peppery — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:58:40 +0000

@Stu:

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

By: Peppery

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.

By: Gredge

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.

By: Stu

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…