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iPhone, oui!
Orange says that in France the iPhone is selling like hotcakes (or perhaps crepes).
The firm has reportedly moved more than 30,000 units in the week since the phone was launched in France. 48% of those were to new customers.
Perhaps the most interesting figure, however, was the 20% of buyers who purchased the unlocked version of the iPhone.
This is roughly the same percentage of people who purchased and then manually unlocked the iPhone, suggesting that any Apple/AT&T paranoia about unlocking the iPhone is unfounded.
Those who want an unlocked iPhone want it bad enough to hack it. The rest don't have much of a problem signing a contract, especially at a discounted price.
Hopefully this will be taken into account when the 3G iPhone is released and Apple will make an unlocked phone available worldwide.
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