Vodafone is ready for the iPhone as well in the United Kingdom

Big news today, Vodafone is also coming in the UK iPhone market later this yeat. So now I guess all American customers of AT&T are waiting to have the same kind of choice as in UK, because AT&T hasn’t been known as being a good mobile operator with the iPhone.

iPhone Everyone TV Ad for UK

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.

Big price drop in UK with Carphone

You can save £100 with the 8Gb iPhone:

iPhone 16Gb confirmed in UK, iPod Touch 32Gb soon

You can now found some iPhone 16Gb in UK, both in Apple Store (real shop) and O2 shops at the price of £329. But in the London Regent Street Apple Store, they haven’t received the new iPod Touch 32Gb yet ().

iPhone 16Gb today in UK?

A rumor coming from Engadget has appeared today about a 16Gb iPhone in O2 stores around 1.30 pm this afternoon. Interesting that the device comes first in UK before the US. I doubt it, but we will see in 2 hours…

O2 in UK, lowering prices

The happy iPhone UK customers with O2 will have more for the same price… 600 minutes and 500 SMS for £35 per month.

See details here

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.

iPhone’s sales in UK, less than expected

According to the Financial Times, O2 didn’t hit its target of selling 200,000 iPhones in the first 2 months. Experts are expecting a price cut soon in the UK market. I think we will see that price cut only when a new iPhone will be released. O2 is already happy with the iPhone launch because 190,000 iPhones sold means around 90,000 new O2 customers who were with other mobile providers. So it’s definitely a big win for O2 in the current saturate market where the only way to gain customers is to “steal” them from competitors.

Also it provides to O2 new contract customers, because the iPhone comes only with a contract, so it’s a guaranteed revenue for at least 18 months.

Mobile Internet Usage in December from Admob

Admob gave us their metrics for December, and here is a quick quote from them:

“Apple iPhone share grew again and we observed a strong “gifting” trend around iPhones for the Christmas holiday”