T-Mobile says over 10,000 iPhones sold at German launch
T-Mobile, the mobile services arm of Deutsche Telekom, said Friday it has sold more than 10,000 iPhones on the first day the touch-screen handsets were made available in Germany.
The iPhones were purchased via the company's retail stores and over the Web, T- Mobile said, adding that it is "well prepared" to meet further high demand.
Speaking in a television interview Thursday, company's chief executive Rene Obermann said it's possible demand in Germany for iPhones during the Christmas sales season may outstrip supply.
T-Mobile's upbeat comments arrive in stark contrast to observations published Friday by media outlet Reuters, which insinuated that the German launch was lackluster at best.
While a few hundred "hardcore fans" lined up at a Deutsche Telekom retail store in Cologne, Germans in downtown Frankfurt reportedly lived up to their reputation for thrift and resistance to hype.
Outside the T-Mobile store on Frankfurt's main shopping street, people hurried to work without noticing the placards outside the shop proclaiming the iPhone's arrival, according to Reuters.
"Really? No, I had no idea," said one woman, declining to stop to give her name when asked whether she was aware the iPhone went on sale on Friday.
iPhone launches in Germany.
MacNotes.de publishes a photo gallery from the launch.
Shoppers in Cologne pack a Deutsche Telekom retail store.
Meanwhile, one solitary would-be buyer loitered outside the shop an hour and a half before opening time.
"I'm astonished there's no one else here," said 34-year-old Uwe Berger, a computer programmer who fell in love with the iPhone on a recent visit to the United States.
"I don't find the price too high. The iPhone can do more than other phones and of course it's much better."
The iPhones were purchased via the company's retail stores and over the Web, T- Mobile said, adding that it is "well prepared" to meet further high demand.
Speaking in a television interview Thursday, company's chief executive Rene Obermann said it's possible demand in Germany for iPhones during the Christmas sales season may outstrip supply.
T-Mobile's upbeat comments arrive in stark contrast to observations published Friday by media outlet Reuters, which insinuated that the German launch was lackluster at best.
While a few hundred "hardcore fans" lined up at a Deutsche Telekom retail store in Cologne, Germans in downtown Frankfurt reportedly lived up to their reputation for thrift and resistance to hype.
Outside the T-Mobile store on Frankfurt's main shopping street, people hurried to work without noticing the placards outside the shop proclaiming the iPhone's arrival, according to Reuters.
"Really? No, I had no idea," said one woman, declining to stop to give her name when asked whether she was aware the iPhone went on sale on Friday.
iPhone launches in Germany.
MacNotes.de publishes a photo gallery from the launch.
Shoppers in Cologne pack a Deutsche Telekom retail store.
Meanwhile, one solitary would-be buyer loitered outside the shop an hour and a half before opening time.
"I'm astonished there's no one else here," said 34-year-old Uwe Berger, a computer programmer who fell in love with the iPhone on a recent visit to the United States.
"I don't find the price too high. The iPhone can do more than other phones and of course it's much better."
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Looking forward to the UK launch, and similar pictures from there of course
Wow...! Not excited about the iPhone sales as much as about the picture in the middle
Looking forward to the UK launch, and similar pictures from there of course
Hell, she could have got one "Free" looking like that - hell I would have bought it for her
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Wow...! Not excited about the iPhone sales as much as about the picture in the middle
Looking forward to the UK launch, and similar pictures from there of course
That is the German comedy celebrity Ruth Moschner (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1046216/) - she was there on invitation and she very likely got an iPhone for free.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IWc9II-bsM
Hope sales in Great Britain are better.
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love the ta-ta's...
Nice widgets, lady!
c'mon ... lets have a little class here. Besides, I still think what she's holding is sexier.
c'mon ... lets have a little class here. Besides, I still think what she's holding is sexier.
I agree. Wonder if she's planning to jailbreak her new toy?
c'mon ... lets have a little class here. Besides, I still think what she's holding is sexier.
Wow 8 out of 10 responses had nothing to do with the iPhone.
Way to go guys lets show the women readers how intelligent we are.
10,000 phones in a country the size of Germany does seem a little weak to me. It might have been worse if the chick with the nice rack hadn't shown up.
Hope sales in Great Britain are better.
10,000 is actually not bad considering a few factors...
- The T-Mobile tariffs are just plain bad (and the early buyers will be bummed when they come down after X-mas and they will be stuck for 24 months) and even existing T-Mobile customers get very bad conditions when changing from an existing tariff, plus there are almost no attractive T-Mobil tariff options (like landline flat) that can be paired with the iPhone tariff
- Tech press in Germany (at large as per instructions given by their advertisers, partially with identical wordings
- Germans at large (die hard Apple fans excluded) are very resistant to hype (unless it is against something) and a lot are plain cheap. People will wait for hands on reviews, better tariffs or other developments.
- A lot of business people I know wait for the announcements in France and the price of the unlocked version. Its only three weeks and even if the price of the phone is double, one will easily save it in roaming charges when travelling - and Germans travel outside the country a lot.
Wow 8 out of 10 responses had nothing to do with the iPhone.
Way to go guys lets show the women readers how intelligent we are.
What women readers are those, exactly?
Wow 8 out of 10 responses had nothing to do with the iPhone.
Way to go guys lets show the women readers how intelligent we are.
I don't see the correlation between intelligence and appreciation for nice breasts.
I do however, see a correlation between sexual preference and appreciation for nice breasts.
Reading that T-Mobile was well prepared sounds a little strange for me. I for myself bought today an iPhone and cannot say that EDGE of T-Mobile is performing as well as Vodafone with UMTS. I wrote about my personal experiences with the iPhone's mobile internet connection here in my blog.
Aye, that's very interesting, that. But to get back on topic, what do you make of old Ruthy Whatserface?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7085643.stm
Where is Melinda Messenger when you need her? Shame on you, U.K., shame!
Alas, my fellow Brits are no looking so hot:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7085643.stm
Where is Melinda Messenger when you need her? Shame on you, U.K., shame!
What a shame, they sure picked them at random it seems
Both Melinda Messenger and Nell McAndrew should have been invited in the UK iPhone launch.
http://celebrity.azplayers.com/naked...l_McAndrew.jpg
Take that female readers
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for the slow ones:
sar·casm /ˈsɑrkæzəm/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[sahr-kaz-uhm] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
?noun
1.\tharsh or bitter derision or irony.
2.\ta sharply ironical taunt; sneering or cutting remark: a review full of sarcasms.
[Origin: 1570?80; < LL sarcasmus < Gk sarkasmós, deriv. of sarkázein to rend (flesh), sneer; see sarco-]
?Synonyms 1. sardonicism, bitterness, ridicule. See irony1. 2. jeer.
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