France to have unlocked iPhones avaliable at launch?

on Orange's expectations for iPhone sales in France. Orange expects to sell nearly 100,000 iPhones by the end of 2007 after its launch later this Wednesday.

MacScoop reported on the leaked rate plans for the French iPhone last week. The rate plans were revealed on iphone.orange.fr. Pricing points include 49 euro/mo, 59 euro/mo, 79 euro/mo, and 119 euro/mo. Orange will also be offering an unlocked iPhone. The Reuters article provides no details on the price of the unlocked iPhone but places it "significantly lower" than the unlocked German iPhone.The MacScoop report, however, indicates that the French iPhone will be unlockable even before the typical 6 month wait-time for only 100 euro. While on the surface this seems much cheaper than the German pricing, it does not appear that this removes the 2 year contract requirement with Orange. This means that while you can buy an unlocked iPhone in France for 499 euro (399 + 100), the main advantage will be to avoid roaming charges when traveling as you are still contractually obligated to Orange. Meanwhile, the unlocked German iPhone has no contract requirement, but comes at a higher cost. These details have not been confirmed by Orange. Official announcements will be made on Wednesday.Update: Another reports that France Telecom CEO Didier Lombard claims the unlocked iPhone will be above 500 euro but less than 1000 euro.

Inc.com is saying that the iPhone will be the " next major computing devices

Zach Nelson of Inc.com has been to the future (using Time-machine) and has seen what the future of the iPhone has in store for people.

"Some people use it to play music. Others marvel at the photo-browsing interface, and some of its users just want to look cool. I don't care about any of those things when I look at the iPhone. What I see is the breakout of the next major enterprise computing platform."

I agree 100% with Mr. Zach. The iPhone has opened up many possiblities for Apple Inc. Not only with the future iPhone, but also with things such as the iPod, and the Multi-touch technology.

Source: Inc.com

Apple files patent for a Multitouch gesture interface

PCJoint.com points to ongoing research by Apple into multi-touch technologies. The most recent patent applications reveal techniques to recognize both palm and finger contacts in order to react appropriately.

PCJoint summarizes the possibilities:
- Need to move a cursor across the screen? Just slide your finger and it goes.
- Want to enter text? Just start typing and the text is there. You even get the touch feedback as if really pressing the keys.
- Need to erase some text? Use the backspace or just slide the finger backwards
- Have to write or draw something? Just pretend you hold a stylus or pen in your hand and start writing/drawing.
- If that is still not good enough, pick up the real stylus and start writing with it.
- All these cool touch gestures that Apple has implemented in iPhone and is exploring further? You know, scrolling, zooming, rotating & moving objects, etc; They are here too
- 3D object manipulation? Select a few 3D objects on the screen and use all 5 fingers on both hands to play with them.
- Want to take a break to relax and afraid to put your hands on the touch surface? Don’t worry Multi-touch 2.0 thingie knows that and does not pay attention to your resting palms or fingers


This should come as no surprise to those who have been following Apple's patent applications as well as their previous acquisition of Fingerworks. Previous patent applications have also suggested the possibility of one surface acting for many different functions (such as typing and gestures).

Source: Macrumors

iphone coming to Verizon on November 20??

A business guy spoke with a local small business that he does some consulting with. They have been debating on whether to go with Blackberry or Windows Mobile for their staff. The staff has been interested in iPhones, but the company currently uses Verizon, which they would need to cancel the contract on in order to go with iPhones.
Today, He got a call from them. In that call, he told the business guy that their Verizon rep said that they would have iPhones available tomorrow (11/20/2007), and the price for his business was $250 per phone. He was as shocked the Verizon rep said they were getting the iPhone.

Source: McMahonWeb


UPDATE:
Last night I tried to get some more information about the possibility of the iPhone coming to Verizon Today. Below is the e-mail I received from my insider about the possible relationship between the the two companiess:

Sorry, I don't have a means for verifying the information, as I stated
>in the post. All I have is the customer account.
>As far as who they are, I can't give you the name, as I don't have
>their permission to give out contact info. I can tell you that it's a
>small company in Central Illinois with approximately 20 employees.
>The owner called me shortly after the conversation with Verizon. He
>too was confused, as I had previously informed him that the iPhone was
>AT&T only.
>
>I suppose tomorrow we'll know a lot more. He is going to call them
>back tomorrow and see if he can indeed order. He is going to call me
>as soon as he talks with them again.
>
>Thanks
>Shannon

<> Its not much to go on, but its a good start. I plan on calling Verizon Wireless in the next 90 minutes to see if I can get any information out of them. check back hourly to for updates.

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