Files in iPhone reveal overseas plans for T-Mobile, Vodafone
By Ryan Block 
posted Jul 4th 2007 3:09PM
posted Jul 4th 2007 3:09PM
That iPhone firmware leaked this week? Well, as found on the iPhone Dev Wiki it's been cracked open, its files laid bare, and deep within the system one can find four very special, very telling files:Default_CARRIER_ATT.png
Default_CARRIER_CINGULAR.png
Default_CARRIER_TMOBILE.png
Default_CARRIER_VODAFONE.png
We know AT&T / Cingular have a 5-year exclusivity agreement on the iPhone in the US, but if this doesn't make clear Apple's plans to launch on Vodafone (presumably for UK and much of Europe) and T-Mobile (presumably for Germany) we don't know what does.
P.S. -Sorry, those iPhone images are encoded all funny (something about flipped R and B pixels?), we couldn't get 'em working. Anyone with some hacking skills want to make 'em readable for us?
P.P.S. -Apple can stop calling the iPhone's browser "Safari" now, we know they differentiated by calling it MobileSafari.app in the iPhone (and it's only 640KB, oddly).
[Via Hackintosh]
Vodafone? Hmm, they have a pretty good UMTS network here in the Netherlands, let's hope they'll let me use it with an Iphone, my €200 Nokia 6234 can do it, so a ~€500 Iphone should too!
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Any word on Canadian carriers? I wonder if there were any files that pointed at Rogers or Fido (same thing really).
No German would ever pay that much for a "fun" phone like the Iphone. They wont sell anything if they dont get under 200€ for the small version and 250€ for the 8gb version.
T-Mobile is one of the worst providers anyway.
So good by Iphone... i would have loved to get you but not this way
No German would ever pay that much for a "fun" phone like the Iphone. They wont sell anything if they dont get under 200€ for the small version and 250€ for the 8gb version.
T-Mobile is one of the worst providers anyway.
So good by Iphone... i would have loved to get you but not this way
Maybe this is just the List for their Roaming service provider/partners.....my guess
I hope they put it on T-mobile in the Netherlands as well. Vodafone's plans suck and T-mobile gives the best phone discount for existing customers, which is a big thing with a phone as expensive as the iPhone.
T-Mobile is the BEST!
i wish vodafone will bring the iPhone to Greece as well.
Vodafone sucks hard, but oh well we got a family program with vodafone and we dont plan to change it, so bring the iPhone plox!
Where are you guys getting this info about the at&t five year exclusivity? I'd like to see an official source, since at&t the contracts are only show to be 2 years with them.