Re: Unlocked French iPhone will use French language ONLY

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:14:12 -0800 (PST), fufu.goldberg@yahoo.com
wrote:

>Orange-France have to release an unlocked version of the iPhone - by
>Law.
>
>Apple's master plan is to limit all these phones so that they can only
>display French.
>
>I'm sure Canadians won't mind (since most of them are French)

I think you'll find that most of the Canadians are actually Canadian
which means that they're not French or American.
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<fufu.goldberg@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Nov 21, 7:06 am, BGN <nickmoo...@spamcop.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:14:12 -0800 (PST), fufu.goldb...@yahoo.com
> > wrote:
> >
> > >Orange-France have to release an unlocked version of the iPhone - by
> > >Law.
> >
> > >Apple's master plan is to limit all these phones so that they can only
> > >display French.
> >
> > >I'm sure Canadians won't mind (since most of them are French)
> >
> > I think you'll find that most of the Canadians are actually Canadian
> > which means that they're not French or American.
> > --
>
>
> Okay, point taken, but the learning curve will be less steep for them
> as many of them will know at least elementary french as it is so
> widespread in Quebec.

Which is only one of the Canadian Provinces.

French is not widely spoken in the other 10 or so.

Nice post.
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Stuart Hutchinson wrote:
> Which is only one of the Canadian Provinces.
>
> French is not widely spoken in the other 10 or so.


However there is another issue that can prevent them being used in
Canada. GSM service in France uses the 900 mHz and 1800 mHz bands. In
Canada it uses 1900mHz, and possibly 850 mHz. All Apple has to do
is limit the unlocked French phones to 900 mHz and 1800 mHz and
they have fulfilled the requirments of French law, while not
making them of any use to people in the U.S. or Canada.

People who travel outside of Europe might complain, but I expect
that's less than a few percent of their customers.

Geoff.

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"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> wrote in message
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> Stuart Hutchinson wrote:
>> Which is only one of the Canadian Provinces.
>>
>> French is not widely spoken in the other 10 or so.
>
>
> However there is another issue that can prevent them being used in
> Canada. GSM service in France uses the 900 mHz and 1800 mHz bands. In
> Canada it uses 1900mHz, and possibly 850 mHz. All Apple has to do
> is limit the unlocked French phones to 900 mHz and 1800 mHz and
> they have fulfilled the requirments of French law, while not
> making them of any use to people in the U.S. or Canada.
>
> People who travel outside of Europe might complain, but I expect
> that's less than a few percent of their customers.
>
> Geoff.


I think you will need to add a few noughts to those frequencies if
you insist in expressing them in mili-Hertz

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