Jul 11
The iPhone 3G is distributed in world-wide, but unfortunately the south Korea, one of famous mobile country is not included.
I just researched iPhone price plan in the world including, USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Japan and France with similar price plan. Canadian’s is very expensive rather than other countries. Especially Australian Orange offers pre-paid iPhone 3G(8G) in about 900 USD because only monthly contraction is illegal in this country.
You can refer iPhone 3G World Price Plan Comparison Chart by me. I hope to get iPhone 3G in south Korea soon.
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July 11th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
I can’t wait till it comes out too.
I also hope that they’ll have reasonable fees- I hope we get Japan’s pricing and features or better.
~Hoo
July 11th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
How realistic is it to expect Apple to sell the iPhone in Korea? It cannot work with any of the Korean websites.
July 11th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Gen, You’re right. But, most of Korean spent a time in Naver and Daum that support safari browser.
Most of important thing is why iphone 3g couldn’t be launched in Korea. It’s another closed national standard - “WIPI” that must be installed in all mobile devices to personal retail. So many foreign device company. Apple reject this duty for providing iphone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIPI
July 11th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Wow, this is the first time I have heard of WIPI.
July 11th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
It’s not very “Interoperable” if it only works in Korea
July 12th, 2008 at 2:39 am
Exactly what Gen said. How about DMB ? I know its quite popular there.
July 29th, 2008 at 7:27 am
We Canadians are well aware we are getting screwed in the pricing, Rogers released some alternative plans, I’m not sure what numbers you’re using but it doesn’t surprise me. Rogers has a monopoly on iPhones in Canada.
People have been using them hacked or whatever on rival services for months, we’re a Blackberry shop at work so that will be my handheld of choice while at my current job.
Cheers from Canada.
July 29th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
as if any of the limitations or apple’s “refusal” to comply to korea’s ridiculous IT standards is in any was apple’s fault??? that safari doesn’t support korean websites is KOREA’S fault. why can’t korea have websites that work the same as websites in the rest of the world? why can’t korea use mobile technology that the rest of the world uses? because korea is very protective of its market and refuses to allow something that they know will hurt sales of shitty LG and samsung phones. that’s the REAL reason why south korea won’t sell the iphone. it’s not a matter of korea being “not included” it’s a matter of korea excluding itself because IT here is all proprietary.
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