I wrote the other day about how much I want to get my hands on an iPhone, but, that until the day comes that I can just walk into an Optus store to buy one, without having to sign up for a contract and wait a few weeks on delivery like they’re currently offering, that I was going to wait and see if any other mobile company made a move. I was actually expecting 3 to sign a deal that would be cheaper and better than anything Optus, Telstra or Vodafone could offer.
Today, right from left of field comes the dark horse. Virgin Mobile (who are part of the Optus Group) have announced that they’re going to carry the iPhone with the following plans:
Customers will be able to bag a 8GB iPhone 3G for $0 upfront if they sign a 24-month contract at $70 per month.
For the $70 monthly fee, customers will receive $520 worth of calls and text, and 1GB of data download capacity.
Customers can upgrade the monthly download capacity to 2GB by paying an additional $15 per month.
16GB iphone $100/month, $520 calls, 5GB data
Hopefully I’ll have a 16Gb white iPhone from Virgin over the next few days!
I’m really disappointed that only today, after his death at the weekend, that I got around to watching Randy Pausch’s last lecture. I had heard of this before, but, given that it’s an hour and 16 minutes long, I never got around to watching it. Today, I decided to set aside the time, and suggest that you do too.
I’m starting to run out of patience. I’ve tried about 6 times to buy an iPhone in the Optus store in Brisbane. I’ve tried other stores outside of the city in what I thought would be quieter places, but, still no joy. I even tried the Apple store in Sydney last night to no avail (apparently you have to start queuing at 7am and you might have one by lunchtime there!).
Yes, I could sign myself up for a contract with Optus that would guarantee me a phone when stock came in, but, I’ve decided that until I can just walk into a store and pick one up, I’m going to hold out, in hope that perhaps 3 will announce a deal that they are carrying the iPhone with a data plan that rocks (yes, iPhone data plans in Oz suck!).
The longer it goes by, the harder it is not having one. In theory, given I’ve lived in London since the original iPhone went on sale, I’ve been living in a readily accessable market for a long time without having one, and it sucks! I might just have to bite the bullet this weekend and put my name down for one and wait on that call!!
So, I guess the below image is worth a bit of shameless self promotion! Managed to make it to flickr explore yesterday, which is the first time in a while that I’ve been there. Woke up one morning last week and the fog was shrouding the river and the Story Bridge just as the sun was coming up, decided to grab my camera and just rattle a few shots off from the balcony. Left the images sitting there for a few days until the other night when I done some work, and figured that a sepia tone to this would add some atmosphere and turn it into a really nice shot. Quite happy with how this turned out!
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