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An employee at Optus has confirmed to flop ya mac out that not only does he enjoy a good book, but more importantly the iPhone 3G when purchased ‘pre-paid’ style with the Optus network will be able to be unlocked for a fee of $80. The ‘post-paid’ plan iPhone will be able to be unlocked for free. Free! Free.

Of course once you are signed up on a two year contract, typically the only way to cancel your contract is to pay out the full term of your contract, which is likely to be more than a grand.

But given most of the Australian carriers will end up offering iPhone it seems, having an unlocked Phone may not be all that important? I guess it depends if we can sell them to China for a decent price!

Our delicious source also mentioned that Optus is designing special iPhone plans, which is to be expected, given the data requirements for using iPhone and the mostly shite data plans currently available. They are also apparently upgrading their Optus Zoo service.

Optus Zoo is the awesome name for their Intranet that allows you to do cool things that are too cool for me to use, so much so I have never bothered to see what the service really offers with my current Optus plan.

The new Optus Zoo service is reportedly going to have an ‘i’ tacked onto its name so that people will know the service is Apple-like and therefore a service you can show off in front of your grandma and friends and still get ‘oohs’ and ‘ahhs’.

‘iZoo’ sounds more like the noise you make when you sneeze and hopefully will remain invisible to Optus iPhone users that don’t wish to engage in their carrier specific offerings, how ever ‘Apple delicious’ they may be. Oh, stop it!

More information about plans is bound to be released leading up the release of iPhone 3G around the world in 22 countries on the 11th of July, so let us all pray the plans available to Australian users won’t be as painfully pricey as our broadband plans are!

UPDATE: Further details to hand…

• iZoo will be accessed via an icon on the home screen, that will give access to further services, such as a petrol pump finder that locates the cheapest petrol available near you, then guides you to it using GPS.
• Unlimited data with plans, with the option of an unlimited calls plan at the high end.

UPDATE 2: Optus iPhone 3G pricing now available here.

Apple opens a flagship store in Sydney, Australia, but will the Genius Bar deliver the goods - with ice? Dan and Jase try a sprout-core sandwich, and Adobe does the iPhone Flash-dance.

Damn it! To register root.me from Godaddy for a minimum two years is AU$104.84!

Time’s running out to register a “dot me”, so I guess I’ll have to point ladies I fancy to some other URL to make a sweet proposition to love…

an.us/fun-times?

So what’s with the iPhone case on the demo iPhone’s at WWDC 2008?

My best guess is they are there because the iPhone can be a little slippery to hold. (So I’ve found. Though do I love the silver matte finish…) Perhaps the rubbery-looking case is simply there to prevent demo slippage?

Imagine the guy is showing off Sega’s Monkey Ball and whoops!! There goes the iPhone.

Has anyone seen this sorta case for sale?

We discuss the iPhone 3G, WWDC 2008 keynote and more, in flop ya mac out 38: post-wwdc banana milkshake.

Daniel and Jason give some deep thought massage to WWDC 2008. Will John West reject the iPhone 3G? If he mistook it for some salmon, that is… And Steve Jobs gets lyrical and dishes up something tasty for flop ya mac out listeners only…

After much deliberating, my manager and I who work as resellers in Melbourne (Australia) decided to be the first to break photos of 2.0. But can you really blame us??!

We can’t be penalised - we didn’t sign NDA’s anyway! Ha!

Enjoy!

Needless to say, the anticipation was killing us!

Oh, wow. Steve’s really done it this time…

iPhone 2.0 really does scroll like butter. Quick, somebody call me on it!

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Ha! A phone with a touch screen interface reported to contain a “2 megapixel camera, GPS, FM radio, EVDO Rev. A, 3-inch touchscreen (pressure-based), and microSD card slot… …measuring a 2.17 x 4.57 x 0.49 inches.”

Sounds like the new 3G iPhone. Perhaps. Sorta. Hopefully!

Well… It’s not. It’s Sumsung’s new “iPhone killer”. Stated in the video below, this thing is set to come out ib June. But will June be too late?

If this new version of the iPhone can deliver on most of the features above (as it really should have in it’s original incarnation - I mean no video recording - really!) then I think it’s pretty much still gonna shit all over the Instinct.

There’s no going past the iPhones sexy interface, and soon to be hundreds of applications and games to make the Apple touch platform the yummiest thing since a really yummy sandwich. That was surprisingly yummy in a rather non-sandwich way.

Sandwich goodness plus “seem-less” interoperability with the iTunes world of content is just part of what makes the iPhone a force to be reckoned with.

Fingers crossed for the WWDC keynote! Check out the promotional ad for the Instinct below. 

Within a number of hours, this ad could become extinct, irrelevant and just downright incorrect. And good laugh.

(via TUAW)

UPDATE: Well well well… Post-WWDC, it looks like Samsung, for now, will have the last laugh! That is unless Apple just wants to surprise us all with video recording capabilities closer to the release date of the new iPhone 3G!… 

“Tut tut tut, Apple” is all I can say…

Recorded on Sunday, Dan and Jase put their all their WWDC thoughts and predictions into the one basket to give away as a free hamper to the homeless. Apart from the biscuit break, it’s all hands on deck for the last fymo before a 3G iPhone is announced!…

It was with much annoyance that Dan and I found out that some crafty, iPhone-flogging eBayer in Australia has been hot-linking to our images here at Flop Ya Mac Out, in a bid to brighten up his eBay page.

Sure, we may glean the odd photo here and there off Google Images ourselves, but we feel there is a distinction between doing this, and free-loading on someone’s bandwidth for profit, without asking.

We meditated over this for a while, and then formulated the perfect plan.

Amidst fits of giggling, we sourced some suitably appropriate ‘equivalent images,’ (we decided against hardcore porn after much debate), uploaded them to our server, and then let them fly.

Better still, once eBay pages are submitted, the code can’t be changed! We hope they’ll sway perspective buyers even more so now than before, but see what you think.

Results follow:

Brings new meaning to Virgin Mobile, no? A cheeky lesson learnt, but one he’ll never forget.

iThink, therefore I am? I’m sure that’s been done to death, but let me demonstrate my current being in verse… 

If Jobs were not born

Apple products I could not yearn

I have me no lady

But I have a picture of you above my bed.

Steve Jobs, only because of you

Do I have something to look forward to

Come next Tuesday morn

I’ll wake not with a yawn

As I’ll wake at dawn

Not to surf porn

But I’ll open up Engadget and Macrumors too

To view the live reporting of the WWDC Keynote - Ooo!

Loins firm, eyes peeled for what I shall next consume

Sleepless night…

Sleepless night’o'joy.