Today, Korea Telecom announced that they are getting reservations for their iPhones from now on, I never thought that this will came true. Because Korea’s mobile industry was very stiff, it is very hard to find mobile phones other than Samsung and LG’s, foriegn manufacturers couldn’t come in easily.
But worst of all, even Samsung and LG sold downgraded phones in Korea, there are few nice examples – Samsung Jet and LG BL40, wifi was removed and 3.5mm earphone port was replaced by horrible 20pin port.
And carriers kindly blocked IMEIs of foreign phones, so there were no way to use nice foreign phones in Korea rather than roaming it.
But, now iPhone has arrived in Korea, so I think manufacturers and carriers should reorganize themselves to they can survive from iPhone.
I think, now it is time for revolution!
A screenshot of Apple Korea web page.