14 DAY TRIAL // The iPhone is just too good to keep only for the US, Apple seems to think. They plan on bringing their only phone to Europe and in Asia too sometime later. In order to do this as soon as possible, they have already started negotiations with several carriers from these continents.
Apple now tries to reach an agreement with the best possible carrier in Europe. For the US launch, they initially had in mind to choose Verizon, but failed to settle on the terms of their agreement. After a long time of debates, the deal was dropped and they had to resort to AT&T. This proved to be an unfortunate second choice, as, before the launch, many people declared that they would have chosen to buy the iPhone if it had been provided on another network.
Still, Apple came out with huge sales numbers of 700,000 iPhones only in the first few days since its launch. The thought that these figures could have been even larger is rather impressive and would have made the iPhone a wonder device.
Apple does not plan on making the same mistake twice. Negotiations for bringing the iPhone on the European market have started at first with UK company, Vodafone. Now, a German newspaper has announced that the handset will first be released in Germany, by T-Mobile, a local carrier.
The European version of the iPhone will be a 3G one, as in the version released in the US is only a 2G one. Apple will have a great amount of time to prepare this new launch, as there are several months of wait ahead before this handset will go global.
The iPhone is set for release on European grounds on the 1st of November, this year. It will reach Asia only in year 2008.