Ha, nadat intertoys bedacht dat je een iphone verkopen kunt zonder sim, moet T-Mobile eens op zijn kop gekrabt hebben. Maar, ze zouden T-Mobile niet zijn als ze er niet nog meer aan verdienen willen: Je moet er een prepaid kaart bijnemen.

Source: Linkje (Nu.nl)

Aan de prijs te zien denken ze superieur te zijn aan Intertoys - Die kost 600 terwijl en is simlockvrij, T-Mobile er 700 euro voor wil hebben, en nog beperkingen bedacht heeft ook. Lutsers.

As the Chosen Operator T-Mobile Netherlands knows things about their Dutch clients and their iPhone 3G:

• more men than women do buy an iPhone 3G (is it really?)
• the average use of data is 10MB a day
• the black iPhone 3G 16GB is the most popular model
• the largest group of users (49%) is between 25 and 39 years old, followed by a group between 18 and 24 that is 26%
• the cheapest price plan with 150 calling minutes and 150 text messages (sms) is most popular
• of all price plans 10% is for professional use. The most expensive price plan of 500 minutes and 500 text messages is most popular.

What does this say? We can see that the users are relatively young, but as we say in The Netherlands older younger. The real young people can’t affort it and if they are no gadget freaks they are not interested, I think. Just like I already used mobile Internet on my Nokia E61i, the way the iPhone does data makes it even more fun to use it. So 10MB a day is not strange, even for me.

As of today, anyone in the Netherlands with a big bag of money can go to the T-Mobile store and purchase an iPhone 3g. The first person to get a hold of one is a guy called Edwin from Den Haag (The Hague), which is my town as well and about 15 minutes drive from Rotterdam, where T-Mobile debuted the iPhone.

Edwin waited for over 9 hours for the iPhone, and when asked what he was about to do when het would get home, he replied “charge it”. Duh.

Images are here: Link.

T-Mobile opened the doors of it’s store at midnight last night (CET). The company informed potential customers of a limited availability: 500 pieces only. No idea if there will be more and/or when there will be more.

T-Mobile was smart enough to offer drinks and snacks to the people waiting outside, and offered poncho’s for those who did not bring an umbrella (the wheather in the Netherlands has not been good lately).

Other stores will also sell the iPhone, but T-Mobile has the contract for at least three months without competition. Although KPN has stated the company will not carry the iPhone, strong rumors still say KPN will start carrying the iPhone soon. T-Mobile is not the best carrier in the Netherlands, where KPN and Vodafone are much better and more reliable. We’ll wait and see what happens.

At least we have one now, officially. It’s about time to start looking for a second hand first generation for me to play with. I haven’t got an iPhone as I am totally addicted to my Blackberry….

Press coverage is here, in dutch.