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So iPhone Jonny is the world's first person to get a retail version of the 3G iPhone. Not sure if it was worth the 3 days wait. But more interesting, I found the following after installing iTunes 7.7 (released today):

Notice the South African flag??? Yes, as starters, Apple has at least opened up the iTunes store to allow the purchase of iPhone and iPod Touch applications. If you want to purchase media-content, you will still have to go for that US-store account and that EntroPay card (and no, I am not going to explain further - smile)

If you live in Germany and sign up with T-Mobile, you can get your 3G 8GB iPhone for 1 €:

The catch is that you signup for a Complete XL-contract at € 89,00 per month (the 16GB iPhone goes for € 19,95). The T-mobile contract gives you however benefits which we South African will not see in the near future:
* 1000 free minutes
* 300 free SMS
* 5GB UMTS data-bundle (soft-capped thereafter at 64 Kbit/sec)
* Unlimited T-Mobile WLAN hot-spot access
* free weekend talk

Similar in price to MTN's Procall 120 or Vodacom's Talk 100 you will get the T-Mobile Complete M-bundle (8GB iPhone for € 59,95 and contract at € 49,00) - the bundle is the same as the above with the only difference being 100 free minutes and 40 free SMS.