Cracked iPhones hit SA

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Cracked iPhones hit SA

South African consumers fed up with the delay in Apple's iPhone reaching our shores are paying excessive prices to get their hands on "grey imports", which are cracked to work on local mobile networks such as MTN, Cell C and Vodacom.
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"The internet is incredible. It's like full-blown proper internet, not that fiddly internet that most phones have," says Wessels.
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This guy is obviously on CellC - hasn't come accross 3G yet.
 
lol... how's the timing of this article?? Right on the heels of the other announcement! :p
 
xrapidx said:
This guy is obviously on CellC - hasn't come accross 3G yet.
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I dont think he is referring to the speed of the connection. Safari on the iPhone is almost like a fully fledged web browser.
 
Van Spaandonk said that customers might crack the phone, but when they plug their iPhone into their computer and upgrade software, such as iTunes, the upgrade could cause the phone to be "bricked up" again, which renders it useless.
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Haha! 'Bricked-up'! Does he even know what the word means?
 
I think the phone is old by now. Maybe still valid as a fasion statement. However, if this is the way apple do business, i dont want to be part of it. It is so microsoft...
 
I thought the title said "crap iPhones hit South Africa"...

I was gonna ask what the difference was? ;)
 
I would have chosen an iPhone on a contract, had it been available and the SDK was out, it's such a nice gadget with huge potential, but Apple initially locking it up so hard, and it not being available here just kills it.

There's a good market for it in SA, obviously nothing close to overseas, but clearly people here want it.
 
But the Core Group, which has the licence to distribute Apple hardware in South Africa, said consumers who buy cracked iPhones or cracked the iPhone themselves take huge risks because their warranty will be null and void and there will be no backup support in the country.
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About time that local "distributors" let go of the ideas of monopolizing the market and get on with the business. People want iPhones so give them damn things.
 
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