Tag: Europe
Vodafone in pole position for European iPhone exclusive
I’ll be honest, I’ll probably be able to rewrite this story several times in the next few weeks, except with a different operator in the headline. Nobody knows who’ll bag the exclusive rights to sell iPhone in Europe yet, so speculation is all we’ve got to hang onto.
It's official: survey finds Brits leads European on gadget love
Research from GfK reveals that the UK is the largest market in Europe for consumer electronics, with a projected value in 2007 of €13.1bn. This compares with Germany's €12.3bn and France's €9.6bn expenditure, and despite their larger populations. We Brits…
European iPhone launch at risk from arrogance – but whose? Apple's or the mobile operators
We already know that the iPhone won’t be legitimately found in Europe until at least the last quarter of 2007, but recent reports suggest that we could be waiting a lot longer than that.
While it may not have been the most popular choice, we were at least hoping that Apple were close to a pan-European deal.
Off the record, though, some mobile operators are saying that they’ll never stock the iPhone, thanks to Apple being “unbelievably arrogant” and “making demands that ‘simply cannot be justified no matter how hot the product is'”.
We’re led to believe that Steve Jobs talked tough to get his way with AT&T, and that Verizon refused to bow to the pressure.
Is the same true in Europe, or is the differing nature of European operators making it harder for Apple to get its own way? Is it possible that the operators are the arrogant ones, unhappy at being asked to agree to a new business model (who wants to share revenue, eh?)
What are the options?
Microsoft Zune may still come to Europe this year
Well, maybe. Perhaps. Depending on the right conditions. Hmm, following reports last week that Microsoft’s Zune won’t be out in Europe until 2008, the company has moved swiftly to rebut the claims, without giving any clear indications of when we’ll see the digital music player on this side of the Atlantic.
Microsoft's Zune not coming to UK until 2008?
That hefty piece of plastic we’ve been eyeing off for months now just keeps on blowing in the wind, as Bob Dylan would say. The US have had it since November 2006, and it’d been confirmed UK and Europe would be receiving it come Winter this year…until our good friend at Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, reportedly told a German publication it’d been pushed back until 2008.
The reason behind this horror of horrors? According to the interview Ballmer gave the German publication Wirtschafts Woche, it’s due to the fact that the Zune is still to prove itself to Microsoft as a cash-cow….
T-Mobile is European frontrunner for exclusive iPhone deal, sources claim
According to ‘sources’, T-Mobile is the current favourite to become the exclusive distributor for the iPhone, closely followed by Vodafone.
The unnamed sources think that the two companies have already been shortlisted by Apple, but that T-Mobile, owned by Deutsche Telekom, has the edge.
European broadband now reaches 1 in 3
A new report by the European Commission suggests that almost one-third of Europeans have home access to a high speed wired broadband connection. 53% of households access the web via ADSL, with 34% using wireless connections. Nearly one-fifth of Europeans…
EU mobile phone subscriptions now outnumber population
For the first time, mobile phone subscriptions in the European Union outnumbered its population, according to a European Commission report issued yesterday. "With 478.4 million mobile phones in use, penetration in Europe is now at 103 percent of population," the…
Sony claim European PS3 delays were beneficial
With less than a day to go until the Playstation 3 finally launches in Europe, these words may not cause any more pain than Euro-gamers have already faced from the 4 month delay. Far from being a disaster, CEO of…
iPhone 3G could come in early 2008
According to Apple Insider, they have it on good authority that a Swedish firm has been assured that they'll get their hands on a 3G version of th iPhone as early as January 2008. Whether it will be the first…
