I brought your attention did I ? This is the Kuwait Mac Community’s dream. The iPhone, form & function in one, a masterpiece in design, it’s dead simple to use, and it just .. works.
I highly recommend seeing this introductory video, and while your at it, notice its speed when changing between apps, even when a call arrives while watching a video, its surprisingly smooth.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/usingiphone/guidedtour.html
It is one of the most talked item in the blogosphere, and yesterday it got released in the USA. As you may know AT&T has the exclusive rights for the iPhone because of a 2-year contract they made with Apple. Meaning in can be activated by AT&T only, it’s also mentioned that even the iPod features don’t work before activation. So if your in Kuwait like me, then chances are it can’t be activated here, well only if you place your bets on a Hacker which I will probably do. Also it’s rumored that on this Monday, Apple is going to announce the official Carrier for the iPhone in Europe, which is Vodafone, yup that means us too, statistically speaking, since our beloved MTC is called MTC-Vodafone. One of the most notable thing is that the European version of the iPhone supports 3G, and since the contract is rumored to be 3 years, it makes sense for Apple to use 3G since Vodafone doesn’t want to be stuck with slower Edge Technology for that long.
3G is “3G is third-generation technology in the context of mobile phone standards. The services associated with 3G include wide-area wireless voice telephony and broadband wireless data, all in a mobile environment.” – Wikipedia. More on 3G here, Edge here
So to summarize, either you take the risk and buy it online in hopes of a way to activate it and unlock it to make it work in Kuwait, or wait for the European version which should be announced this Monday according to the rumors.
[Update]As reported here the iPhone is going to be sim-unlocked in some countries
