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iPhone Launches in Ireland, Austria

Friday, March 14th, 2008 at 9:15 AM - by

Apple's iPhone officially hit store shelves in Ireland and Austria on Friday. The exclusive carrier in Ireland is O2, just as it is in the U.K., and T-Mobile in Austria.

O2's rate plans in Ireland start at €45 (about US$70.24) for 175 minutes of talk time, 100 text messages and 1 GB of data per month. Rates top out at €100 (about $156.09) for 700 talk time minutes, 100 text messages and 1 GB of data.

T-Mobile's iPhone rate plans in Austria come in two flavors. For €39 (about $60.85), users get 1000 minutes of talk time, 3 GB of data, and will pay 25c per text message. For €55 (about $85.82), users get unlimited voice and text messaging, and 3 GB of data.

The iPhone is priced at €399 (about $622.59) for the 8 GB model, and €499 (about $1,013.14) for the 16 GB model in both countries.

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modix2 said:

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Sat Apr 05, 2008 8:47 am

hmmm, as an expat yank currently living in Austria this is very tempting... but since Germany's T-Mobile division just offered up a Ђ99 iPhone of the 8GB variety, I can't help but think the decks are being cleared for the next generation iPhone. Might be a good time to wait and watch, so to speak. Also, unless the dollar did a spectacular nose-dive overnight and I just haven't gotten the news yet, the Euro-to-Dollar conversion above looks more like someone plugged in UK Pounds to US Dollars by mistake. : I get (on 5apr08) Ђ499 -> $784.78.

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