It’s official now, the operator of the iPhone in Germany is T-Mobile. Some of the contracts were published, it’s about the so-called “Surfing-Contracts”. With this contracts you can do webbrowsing for free.

• The cheapest contract gives you 200 free minutes of talking and costs 39 Euro, you get no free Short Messages.
• Another costs 59 Euro per month, therefor you get 5 GB Transfervolume, every added MB costs 50 cent.
• The most expensive offer for 79,90 Euro contains 1000 minutes of talking and 120 minutes webbrowsing for free.

So, the contracts are similar to the contracts in Great Britain, but you do not get the same. For example there’s no offer that gives you the Short Message Service for free.

There was an Apple event in the Apple Store in the Regent Street/London this morning. Against all speculations was the iPhone not introduced in whole Europe this morning, only in Great Britain. There you can get it starting from the 9. November 2007 for 269 pounds (ca. 387 Euros) with contract. With the cheapest contract for 35 pounds (ca. 50 Euros), you get 200 minutes of speaking time and 200 Short Messages. For 45 pounds (ca. 65 Euro) monthly you’ve 600 minutes of speaking time and 500 Short Messages. If you choose the most expensive contract for 55 pounds (ca. 79 Euros), you can talk 1,200 minutes and you can send 500 Short Messages. Webbrowsing is for free in all of this offers, no matter which connection you’re using. The operator is O2, you can read all the details of the contracts on the homepage of 02.

Apple is preparing for the third Software-Update of the iPhone. The imporovements are some new features and a better stability. Nearly sure is that Apple will introduce the support for the Wi-Fi iTunes Music Store, just like it was announced at the iPod event. With that feature you can download music directly to your iPhone. If you try this now, there’s an warning that you need an Software-Update for doing that. The other new features are unknown yet. Appleinsider says that the Update will maybe be published on monday.