This new 3G iPhone will be the first iPhone Apple Australia is bringing in officially. But to answer your question, yes it is indeed cheaper than the previous gen in the states.

@haya: Are your sources reliable? Man that would be really great if they are gonna sell it separately without contract

Optus and Vodafone have said that they would sell it prepaid.

But that will DEFINITELY bump the price up alot. The USD $199 is because they umm.. have to go on those data usage plans of $20 a month.. with that american company ( I forgot the name)

PS: The data usage here would kill us

There are many sources, with more half-truths than any concrete information. However, I base my statements on an article in The Australian, and The Age.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,...5016091,00.html

http://www.theage.com.au/national/iphone-s...lr.html?page=-1


A unlocked, untied Iphone will set you back at least $700, if this is any indication: http://apcmag.com/Content.aspx?id=2441

In any case, Vodafone has sold the iphone unlocked in Italy and UK, so there is a good indication it may be the same in Australia.

But enough of the iphone. Personally its overpriced. Sure its good, but I put it on the same level as paying $30 for a Stella McCartney branded water bottle. You're paying for the brand, the cool factor.

seriously..i think there is a catch...unless they really sell for usd 199 no catch..
im sure contracts, stupid plan come in..far.view..those interested getting one, enjoy..poor student like me..wait and see.


ericca..ignore haya ..

The need for textbooks are based on your course at uni. Some courses "recommend" text books but are not usually required and some courses require you to read extra from textbooks to do well.

Your course may not require any textbooks, but mine certainly does. I get a different lecturer each week and each one recommends a different text book-which they base their lecture notes on.

Of course, it is not necessary to buy the books since there are plenty of copies in the library-you just need to be quick before it gets borrowed out

I'll wait & see too ha-ha ...

and thanks for the information all

weeeeeeeeeeeee so MED students DO need textbooks... but since you get different lecturer each week and each asking for different textbook, so do you get all of them? but I THOUGHT most of the textbooks have the same information as the information should be constant though? no? unless they want the specific case study or exercises?

hi guys, i'm going to australia to do my master programme next year. i was wondering whether you guys have the intention to stay back at australia after graduating to work there ? because i'm wondering whether i wanna stay back after that or return back to malaysia.

stay back.. good money..

it depends on whether you like to be in australia or not... whether you are happy living in there or not... still too early to decide since you are GOING TO and havent really experienced the life yet... you MIGHT not like to stay here eventhough you can make good money... LIKE ME!!

well... anyone melbbie babies up for lunch?

if for me, im staying for working here!!!

That's not a girls' cartoon, it's a kid's cartoon.

It's just like girl's like superheros like Tony Stark It's all fine loving bubbles as a guy

Optus and Vodafone ? NOUOUOOUOUO I want Three !!

Alright Amazon. But I think I can order through ebay because many books there sells at like ... 1 bucks

bubbles is cute!

I just borrow the books which I need from the library and read up the parts which I'm supposed to. Not all med textbooks say the same thing... I can't find biochem stuff in a anatomy book or pharmacology in embryology.

Then,get 3 lah.

Do note that the signal can be weak in Kingsford.

I'm talking about getting Apple iPhone together with a cap plan from three ... XD

hmmm... working here? where? in melb ar?

it was alright in the start while all my friends still here... but now... all gone home edi... so i left with no friends... =(

OK SO EVERYONE LOVES BUBBLES!!!

Oh ok,but why iPhone?

There are tonnes of other phones that is better than that.

Well ...
Nokia, SE, HTC, and many others ... are just giving us all the features that their machine can't support 100%. Which in the end, provide us with lagness while using their machine. Look at the Nokia's symbian crap ...

Apple on the other hand, throws away all the crap software that are not useful, implement all the useful software(well not all as I don't look at shares). In the end provide us with a nice user friendly interface that really interacts.

I once entered a HTC shop shopping for my cousin's new HP. While entering the alphabets through the stylus, it took like a second for the alphabet to load. And that's not going to help when I need to type like 200 alphabets in a sms.
Having to said that, Apple's on screen keyboard is nowhere better ... My thumbs are too big for the small keyboard
But still iPhone provide me with better user experience

Wheeeeeee ... Bubbles FTW !!!!
So Ericca, time to change to Bubbles avatar
LOLz

This post has been edited by SeeD: Jun 26 2008, 02:01 PM

Meh to all those who gets sucked into buying the iPhone. It's overhyped and when things are overhyped, they tend to get boring.

This post has been edited by chris_c28: Jun 26 2008, 03:19 PM