Orange in UK is going to sell finally the iPhone

After being the partner of Apple in France, Orange will sell the iPhone later this year in UK.

That’s very good news for customers, who were quite disappointed about the upgrade from iPhone 3G to iPhone 3GS for existing customers with O2.

The competition on prices could finally start!!!

Another good iPhone adapted Blog about Corsica

I’ve just discovered this nice Blog talking about the french island: Corsica situated in the Mediterranean Sea. The nice thing is you can see it on your iPhone, with redimensioned images while you visit the island. There is an interesting post about the Wifi you can get for free or nearly free with Fon in Corsica here.

Web version:

iPhone version:

iPhone Internet Request by Country

Very interesting graph from Admob this month, of course United States are the big market for the iPhone, but the second one is not UK, it’s France!!! The fourth market is Canada, without official provider, we can easily measure the unlocked market of the iPhone, between 20% and 40%.

And here is an interesting pie chart showing that US iPhone users surf on Internet with Edge much more than I thought, around 46%. So it means that the iPhone is a real “mobile” Internet device, even without Wifi available.

AlloCiné France on iPhone

AlloCiné France has launched a very good iPhone web application recently. Unfortunately they don’t have the same for Allocine.co.uk… But you can subscribe to the podcast trailers on Allocine UK.

Orange in France is successful

Orange has announced that they sold 70,000 iPhones in only 1 month, despite high prices on the call plans. The iPhone’s customers are for 48% of them new customers.

iPhone and ski

If you leave in Europe and plan to go in France for the winter season, here is a very good website to get latest weather information of ski resorts in France:

Orange sold 30,000 iPhones in 5 days in France

Huge start for France with the sell of the iPhone, I think Orange will hit their target, 100.000 iPhones until Christmas… Here is the Press Release.

The Guided Tour in French

For the french speakers, here is the complete guided tour in HD format:

iPhone in France - First TV Spots

For all the french speakers, here are the first TV Ads:

Kelkoo is coming to the iPhone

Thanks to iphon.fr, Kelkoo is preparing an iPhone version of their price comparison service. It would be available next week firstly in french (the dev team is in France - Grenoble) at http://m.kelkoo.fr

We need the UK version as well… Maybe for Christmas?