VodiPhone

Huh? What? Hello? Vodafone? iPhone! Australia? Yes! 3G? Dunno. What? Where did this story come from? What about all the SingTel/Optus rumours? The dark horse, the Vodahorse comes out from, well, the darkness, and announces that they’re some kind of wild worldwide partner . It won’t be for the existing iPhone, because Voda’s networks in most of those ten countries doesn’t support EVDO. It’s going to have to be a 3G unit, at least in Australia. When? Dunno. No one’s saying. But damn right I signed up. I’m with Voda already, and I was planning to use my unlocked 3G iPhone, bought from wherever, on their network anyway.

So what does this mean for an unlocked 3G iPhone? Will it happen, or will Apple continue with their not-so-successful program of locking the phone to a certain network? I’m hoping they’ll do what every other mobile company does, and that is provide locking as an option to the network reseller, but make unlocking a relatively painless process that won’t be destroyed whenever a software upgrade comes down the spout.