After the iPhone prices from Swisscom came in today I contacted Orange and asked for prices. Their statement: Not before July 11th. How ridiculous is that? But he said they will be in the same price range, maybe with a little bit more data volume. It was also confirmed to me, that all iPhones will be SIM-Locked by both, Orange and Swisscom. The Orange guy was also surprised that Swisscom sells the device with no monthly plan for a pretty good price.
Stay tuned, I will try to find out more as soon as possible.
Update, July 2nd 18:52: Orange, you will loose!
Definitely no prices before July 11th.
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Indeed ridiculous. Because it puts people in the position to either – - get the iPhone in the first days before it’s sold out (and it will be, I think) without giving the contract details a bit of thought, or
- to think a bit about the contract plan required, but then taking the risk of waiting even longer for the next shipment of iPhones..
Well, let’s see maybe I’m overestimating the run on it.. but somehow I think it will be huge.
Another thing: Does nobody think, it’s outrageous to charge 70 or 50 Rappen for each phone call and try to sell it as a nice thing of paying 70 or 50 Rappen per hour? It’s a statistical fact that most phone calls are rather short (think even below a minute), so what’s that?
Ah well, guess I won’t use it much as a phone anyway…