iPhone Launch in Christchurch, New Zealand

The Christchurch Event attracted about 100 people, not all in the line but a good number waited some time outside the Voda store in Colombo st to buy the new iPhone. Including my boss (a real Apple Fan-boy) .. he was Second in line .. First in line and therefore one of the first in the world to purchase the phone is a girl named Lucy ..

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[666BurnThePriest]

This is cool.I got mine at 2am in Gisborne but i had to get someone to buy it for me up in Auckland.I havent sorted out what plan i want yet.Can anyone help me with choosing one between $250 - $400.

[gosekinz]

do you have a wifi router @ home/work? I strongly suggest getting one for both locations (they're quite cheap these days) - that will save a tremendous amount of traffic.

depending on how much you use web-browsing the cheapest plan is fine for email and the odd web page ... for satellite maps and so forth watching youtube videos the biggest plan is probably just enough.

[jawmjawm23]

I just read a story about the iPhone 3g on the xtra homepage and it said that it does cost $250 on contract. Are there any that come out on prepay or are they all on contract?

[gosekinz]

You can buy outright for $979 and you don't really need a contract to use the phone but since many of the functions are built to use a data carrier of some sort you need something to take care of the cost. The "casual" rate for pre-pay is an absurd $1 for 10MB .. and $1 for every MB over that!

So I can see why Voda is kind of forcing people toward a rate plan. The thing is the lock in. 2 years is like a jail sentence.

In fact thats the whole nature of Apple's products not freedom but "capture".

[mvrooyen]

This is looking like a lot of fun!

[gosekinz]

I have some more videos which I'll get around to posting perhaps after work! Good to see you there mvrooyen! I have some with you in them!

[illlTubeYou]

Wo0t im first in line to get riped off!!!

[mvrooyen]

Great Paul

Most people are complaining about the contracts and the price for broadband. I don't see anyone attacking the value and quality of the iPhone. Wifi is taking this contract costs away, not true?

[gosekinz]

I'm going to check the real phone for the bug I found while we were testing/developing some apps for it. I'll report soon on that!

[gosekinz]

not quite true .. it IS Vodarape - but thats the price of mobile broadband in NZ. In the second of these video's "Lucy" states she chose the $80 a month plan .. for people who already have a Voda account you can opt for a $50 a month plan .. this is on top of your current payment.