iPhone? Operate it by proxy
There’s no doubt that a few hundred thousand Apple iPhones have been sold in the USA over the past few days. It’s been highly anticipated and talked about and written about for months now. The new owners must be having a great time.
Then there are those of us in the rest of the world. Will it / won’t it be sold in Australia? The iPhone, currently, is a GSM device. Telstra, the largest carrier here, has pooh-poohed the idea of their supporting it - they’re moving away from GSM and CDMA to their new 3G network. If their advertising is to be believed, their nationwide CDMA network will be switched off in January 2008.
In the meantime, instead of the real thing, we’ll just have to make do by operating an iPhone by proxy. Here’s the link to the iPhone’s User Guide, read it, then imagine yourself using the new techno-thing.
If it’s any consolation, just remember that’s it’s never a great idea to buy something that’s version 1.0. Let others work out the bugs first.
