“Apple Inc.’s iPhones will go on sale in Russia next year, Vedomosti reported, citing Evgeny Butman, a Moscow-based director of Apple IMC, Apple’s official vendor in the country,” Paul Abelsky reports for Bloomberg.
“No single carrier will have exclusive rights to iPhone’s service contracts, according to Vedomossti,” Abelsky reports.
“About 470,000 iPhones are already operable in Russia after the handsets were hacked to work on unauthorized networks, the newspaper said, citing Moscow-based Mobile Research Group,” Abelsky reports.
Full article here.
Red ones?
470’000 allready…
Red is so last-decade, they are planning on selling the iPhone Grey in Russia in 2009.
“Red is so last-decade, they are planning on selling the iPhone Grey in Russia in 2009.”
Yes, they are replacing the plastic back with one made out of recycled concrete. Curiously, they will also glow in the dark.
The cool thing about the Russian phones is not only will you be able to use the iPhone to locate where you are, so will the Militsiya.
In Soviet Russia, I phones you.
Well, the Russian phone carriers will definetly put the price tag of up to $1000 for an iPhone. Here the rule goes: the more they charge,the better.
This time around, grey new-generation iPhones are sold for nearly $ 2 grand in Moscow.
I lived in Russia for 2 years many years ago, and unfortunately they appear to not have changed. Brilliant thinkers with an uncanny knack for technology, but most there prefer to waste it on trying to “beat the system”, hack technology and create viruses for PC users. Fascinating how their 75 year experiment with communism taught them to cheat and be sneaky, and now they don’t know how to function otherwise…
“… taught them to cheat and be sneaky, and now they don’t know how to function otherwise…”
Sounds just like American high school kids.
Space bar Apple.
Evgeny Butman…should i? No, i really shouldn’t.
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