The keen eyed folks over at 9to5mac.com have spotted a job application which says iPhone in, and somewhat radically claimed that a second generation iPhone was coming to Australia. Although we here at iPhone Australia (would it be rich to call us the iPhone in Aus experts?) have to disagree, it is none the less interesting, and does confirm that the iPhone will be coming to Australia (which we knew it would at some point anyway) and more than likely with Telstra, and perhaps most interesting is that the contract is for 2-3 months, which could mean that the timeframe for an Australian launch is just that, 2-3 months, I certainly hope so (not least because we said it first!). Full Job Posting below. 9to5mac.com
Design BA for iPhone search application
Contract Role
Description:
Are you a business analyst with experience gathering and documenting requirements for interactive web or mobile products? We’re looking for a BA with a technical front-end UI background to help us design cutting-edge search applications for the iPhone. This isn’t boring old specification-heavy BA work. This is exciting and agile BA work to help us envision mobile search applications that work great and look beautiful. Let us know if you think you’ve got the right combination of creative flair, geekiness, and detail orientation to get the job done.
Details:
- 2-3 month contract
- Melbourne CBD
Send a resume, cover letter, and salary requirements to brian.curtis@sensis.com.au
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It will probably happen with new 1.2.0 firmware release. The new firmware will be release on late June, and that means iPhone will take its cloth off !!!
But I wouldn’t expect it will be a 3G version… actually I don’t care because I already have one and no problem to use it. 3G service cost is still damn high.. so no point to use it. Stick to wifi !!
i think it’s interesting to note the specs, they are looking for somone to design a search program. a program to search what? i’m thinking that if telstra took on the iphone one of the conditions of it was that the itunes store was disabled, so this might be a way to search the bigpond music collection as an alternative.
not definitatve, but thats how it looks to me.
EDIT:
looked around more, it’s a job for sensis, so it’ll be a whitepages, adress type search engine….
my bad.
Is Telstra the main player in Australia ?
yea telstras the main player so far because they are the only ones who support the EDGE (aka nextG network) in australia.
Just a quick note. I’ve heard down the “wire” that because Telstra has it’s own music site and 3 mobile has it’s own music sit it is in direct conflict with iTunes store and will not be getting the contracts because of this.
This came from the US though but who knows!
I’d imagine that this is a great reason for it not to be on with their networks.
I would just like to inform you that Telstra has been testing a nextG version of it for about 6 months and is in the stage of retesting atm.
Anyone reckon it will come out in OZ with GPS?
Mate where do you get your information?
I was actually told by a Telstra employee 2 weeks ago (and a Crazy Johns employee yesterday) that Vodafone were getting the initial contract, for a period of 6 months. This is coming directly from two different phone dealers.
Khaled- I don’t think so. They’re waiting for a 3G version to be released. If they were going to release a 2G version in Australia they would have done it back in December when they were supposed to be released here.
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