taraging23

taraging23

yes, I understand it doesn't literally mean to die, but hey, why not?

goatiiee

yes, I understand it doesnt literally mean death, but, hey, why not?

goatiiee

As soon as they list calling plans they have to add fine-print... and LOADS of it.

I live in Germany and even the slimmest skyscraper format magazine ads for cellphones/plans include at least 2 inches worth of micro-text. Which obviously would have been too much of a hassle to add to this shop.

Blue_Six

A fake or the worst ad ever. 'The cult phone in USA finally in Germany'. I can not think of a worst anchor statement than this. Specially for a phone that has been hyped in Europe at the very same level as in the US.

MACPollo

If they have to they'd probably be less dissatisfied with DoCoMo's branding- iMode, iAppli, iChannel, etc- it'd fit in just fine.

jamar0303

Yet the phone WILL have additional functionality to make it suitable for the Japanese market. Visual voicemail is a function on the present iPhone that's carrier dependent. Why wouldn't Apple extend that concept to make the device more suitable for Japan?

Europe will get the iPhone ahead of Japan. It just won't be 3G. As for phone tarrifs over there, voice is MUCH more expensive due to the telecoms structure there. Everything is metered. Incoming mobile calls are free only because the person calling pays whatever the network wants to charge! That's why mobile to mobile calls inter-network tend to cost a fortune. The landline network also charges per-minute... why do you think texting was so much more popular in Europe than here for so long?

Buford T. Justice

I'm curious about one thing, though- does T-Mobile Germany not use the same style as T-Mobile USA? Then again, I can see why- I'm not really fond of the US style.

Another thing- 50Euro/month for 200 voice minutes? And Americans complain that they get screwed.

jamar0303

camel109

pinayexpat

Snipery

I don't think this is legit because of the screwed photoshop on this one, T-mobile has been a corporate design "nazi" for everything they have from shops to online and everything else. Thats not even anything near the actual t-mobile font.

But even more interestingly is below the pricetag for the calling plans "Bis zum 12.12 im Telekom-Vorteil" which translates to "Until 12.12. as Telekom-rebate" which makes it even more fake, because for calling plans we have the "Regulierungsbehörde" (Agency for Regulating Transmissions on every band from CB to Phones) who will have to allow such things as "flatrates" and they only allow it until the first of the month, not in the middle. I call BS on this one.

Did anyone notice that the filename is "ipad.jpg"?
And there a more errors like the "Z.B." correct German would be "z.B." The necessary legal texts are completely missing, the logo must be aligned left, the basecolor has to much yellow in it (23% to much) and for it to be a print-ad it would have to be converted from cmyk to rgb which didn't happen. The top-claim is not centered. And "In alle Handynetze..." (to all carriers) cellphone plans are not allowed in germany either.

Snipery

Richardprins

Baaaaaa

Yes but Wifi isnt everywhere like 3G is, I have the option of Wifi and 3G (HSPDA) on my phone and never use the Wifi because whenever you need to use it, Wifi is nowhere around. Think about it Wifi is pretty useless for mobile internet. Yes sure if you are going to download anything big then Wifi is far better but that would be rarely - I can stream video very well use 3G - so its plenty fast for its purpose.

Baaaaaa

gr.mon

f1re

stephenvis

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

Buford T. Justice

And the whimsical jaunty angle that they use to display the price boxes is a different jaunty angle than TMobil uses. This angle does not change throughout their branding, and the real one is jauntier!

Look for more graphics gaffes. I'm sure they're there. Anyone else see some?

scootbootler

I have to disagree, you can get a Good phone free with a plan here, but if you want a Great New phone you are going to pay a lot of cash together with the plan. I dont know how it is in Germany but in Denmark the sales tax plus the fact that phone companies cant bind a customer for more than 6 months will probably mean that the iPhone will be very expensive and will come with a plan

Oasx

Äh, where do you live in Europe? I'm living in Germany and we got all that lovely stuff:
- UMTS
- GSM/GPRS
- EDGE
- HSDPA
- HSUPA
...

Great that I did NOT import an iphone from the US ;-)

Thomas

T.W.G

yogibimbi

SixStringAddict

Metamorphic

johnnyabnormal

OMG! Ponies!

johnnyabnormal

Sparkylulu

phungy

The manual for the phone gave sunnyline.net as the URL; just a 404 there now.

Anyway, I'd also suspect that the ad was a fake. But my $10 iPhone is the real deal!

kirinboy

TheBosnian

aboriginal

macmanwa

I live in chile (south america) and my 80-something-year-old grandmother knows what an iPhone is (seriously). It must be one of the most known and talked about products in the world! So dont come tell me T-Mobile prefered to call it an iPod WTF. Bad bad fake ad......

cwoodhams

What I can't wait for is A2DP support, can't someone write a firmware flash to enable this? Or is it not that easy?

The Cut Squad

Just because someone makes a fake ad confirming everything we expected doesn't mean it isn't a fake. Know what I mean?

beneditor

Buford T. Justice

Fanboys pwn3d

Realtor Dude

and plus, just because it's in German so it must be true eh?

shape up and get on das damn boot!

commenterpreviouslyknownasauricom

Zadillo

That felt wrong.

Gormania

And actually right now T-Mobile already offers 49€ monthly fee with 200 minutes included. However it does not include 100 free sms nor unlimited data transfer. So it would actually be very generous of T-Mobile to offer such tariff for iPhone ( in other words, IMPOSSIBLE! )

goochie

banmojo

Daversa

kardiogramm

Just having photoshop in the metadata doesn't mean an image is fake. Photoshop is commonly used to resize and optimize images to be placed on a web site... just like this one.

Photoshop can be used to alter photos, but don't make the mistake of thinking that it doesn't have other legitimate uses including allowing T-Mobile designers to create real ads.

Do you really think all the millions of photoshop users spend all their time creating fake apple products?

GenericWhiteGuy

America: we've been pwned.

OMG! Ponies!

TimurY

TimurY

Mr.Purple

the_intern

Anyway I would like to point out the main description of the phone saying it is the "cult phone from the US".

Anyone else think that the whole ipod thing is turning (or has turned) into a cult thing? Could somebody do us a favor and look at the percent of posts on giz that are about iphones and ipods?

soldstatic

CrypticArcanum

Haroon Malik

In Europe, we're used to getting GOOD phones free with our price plans.

Collins1

Seriously though, the iPod labeling is a minor point. Carriers this side of the pond are continually making similar gaffs. What iPod would a call plan be useful for? That said it could well be PS work, with the headline present as a double bluff. We just think it is note worthy, so we're letting you in on it. Cheers.

Haroon Malik

Hell, with 3.6Mbit/s HSDPA, the Wifi would be redundant.

Step666

weem

Crazydub

Sternfan91

phungy

phungy

Are you drunk or hungover Haroon?

allstarecho

RetepNamenots

I've been waiting, and this is what I've been waiting for. I hope we get it.

iSmoteThee

scarf