Sad face: Thailand made to wait for iPhone 6

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Sad face: Thailand made to wait for iPhone 6
By Coconuts Bangkok



BANGKOK: -- Despite the popularity of Apple products in the kingdom, Thailand was overlooked for the first wave of launches for the latest iPhone models.

Apple confirmed yesterday the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus will be launched on Sept 19 in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico and Singapore.

The release date of the iPhone 6 in Thailand has not yet been confirmed.

Full story: http://bangkok.coconuts.co//2014/09/10/sad-face-thailand-made-wait-iphone-6

-- Coconuts Bangkok 2014-09-10

[Pomthai]

Grey market will be booming with hiso fools lining up to purchase at well over retail lol.

[TVGerry]

Well if people can afford it, it's a nice phone to have. And if rich people want to buy it on the grey market, so be it. What else are they going to do with their money?

[Kooweerup]

Does it make coffee in the morning? It's just a bloody phone

My phone actually recieves and makes calls to people so far away. I don't need one to skype to the person sitting next to me at the coffee shop. Gees I don't even call them we speak face to face. Old ways of communicating I know but it has a personal feeling about it, I can even touch them

Edited September 10, 2014 by Kooweerup

[Phuketboy]

Why buy on the grey market at inflated prices here, when you can simply order from Singapore or Hong Kong and have it delivered to your door within a couple of days at the recommended retail price.

[TVGerry]

Why buy on the grey market at inflated prices here, when you can simply order from Singapore or Hong Kong and have it delivered to your door within a couple of days at the recommended retail price.

Because you can't.

[belg]

oh hope everybody of the new governement will get theirs on time and free of charge of course... maybe the cost will also be 145.000 baht per iphone ... who knows...

[catweazle]

Oh man, that's so annoying and unfair (to any Thai HiSo Shopping Barbie)...

[Doc46]

Its only a phone ,,,,and with bad reviews as well so why bother .

[HerbalEd]

Does it make coffee in the morning? It's just a bloody phone

My phone actually recieves and makes calls to people so far away. I don't need one to skype to the person sitting next to me at the coffee shop. Gees I don't even call them we speak face to face. Old ways of communicating I know but it has a personal feeling about it, I can even touch them

Are you really that clueless ... or just too lazy to educate yourself? The iPhone, as well as other smart phones, are small but sophisticated computers that do way way more than make and receive phone calls. Perhaps you dismiss them so easily because you're intimidated by them and are afraid to actually try one ... or fail. Easier to poo poo them than risk something new.

[Kabula]

My smart phone's mother board went out 3 days after the warrant expired.

I now carry a 8 year old Nokia cell phone I purchased many years ago and that is all I want and need.

I like having a little more privacy. I carry it in a case designed to stop wi fi and radiation.

I laugh when I pull it out and folks tell me their grandmother has one.

I wonder how many go into debt buying this junk for social standing, to be tracked, watched and have their brains rewired! Many will allow themselves to get a chip injected into them to control the 6, for more nonsense in the near future.

It's remarkable how humans can be manipulated and controlled.

[wandasloan]

Oh man, that's so annoying and unfair (to any Thai HiSo Shopping Barbie)...

Blame the fools who are writing the Channel 3 soap opera, have grabbed free time for the Asian Games and refuse to pay for the World Cup. The NBTC is 100% completely totally responsible for this iPhone delay. They really are in a class by themselves, no insult really does them justice.

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[A1Str8]

I heard that the iPhone 6 can measure the IQ of a person and that's the reason they didn't make it available in Thailand. Nobody would buy it due to fear of losing face because of two digit results.

[Lammbock]

Can't we just order it from Singapore?

[konying]

Some of you whiners do realize there are people who work and run business?

Yes i am waiting to get my hands on one, why? not because it does not make me coffee, but because i need it for business, emails, skype, translator, and many other features.

Why am i going to upgrade to 6? because its faster and has even more useful features i need.

So stop whining,if you do not need a smart phone or if you can not afford one, you really do not need to make silly comments

[konying]

Can't we just order it from Singapore?

as its released? NO

Strangely enough, once its released in Thailand, you actually do order and receive it from Singapore

[david jones]

Yeah! Here is a smartphone and class. My wish is to own it.

[DogNo1]

You can get roughly equivalent Android smartphones for less than the price of the iPhone 6. Android-L is coming soon and it will give IOS a run for the money.

[gerry1011]

Grey market will be booming with hiso fools lining up to purchase at well over retail lol.

I will be among the fools

Can't wait to get one (or two)!

[xen]

May be a blessing in disguise. Wait for the verdict and faults (if any) to show up and get the version that has been fixed unless you have to be the first kid on the block to have it.

[casualbiker]

Some of you whiners do realize there are people who work and run business?

Yes i am waiting to get my hands on one, why? not because it does not make me coffee, but because i need it for business, emails, skype, translator, and many other features.

Why am i going to upgrade to 6? because its faster and has even more useful features i need.

So stop whining,if you do not need a smart phone or if you can not afford one, you really do not need to make silly comments

My 6,000b Android phone does all of that.

Oh and it's a similar shape and size to the iPhone 6 (4.7) so I must be really smart as I saved 16,000 baht!

[Nomad97]

I feel really sorry for a lot of the younger Thai's who must have the latest I-phone. Most live in the villages and do not even have internet access. Most buy their expensive trinket on finance too.

In contrast, my Samsung mobile can contact most people I want to speak to, receive calls and even has an alarm clock built in. The battery is usually good for a couple of weeks without a charge too. Okay, it's not a 'smart phone' and it cannot access the internet. Nor can I send lines or play 'cookie run'. But at 700 Baht I think its a snip.

[Lammbock]

Can't we just order it from Singapore?

as its released? NO

Strangely enough, once its released in Thailand, you actually do order and receive it from Singapore

Why not? I mean preorder starts tomorrow. Do I exactly have to live in Singapore to receive one?

[casualbiker]

Can't we just order it from Singapore?

as its released? NO

Strangely enough, once its released in Thailand, you actually do order and receive it from Singapore

Why not? I mean preorder starts tomorrow. Do I exactly have to live in Singapore to receive one?

Yep. I think so. Previous releases were only to area addresses.

[Krataiboy]

Whoever invented the concept of "lifestyle" wants shagging.

[Lammbock]

Can't we just order it from Singapore?

as its released? NO

Strangely enough, once its released in Thailand, you actually do order and receive it from Singapore

Why not? I mean preorder starts tomorrow. Do I exactly have to live in Singapore to receive one?

Yep. I think so. Previous releases were only to area addresses.

What makes Singapore so special? Such a small city state.

What if I order it from the US. "Apple.com" Will it be shipped out to Thailand?

Edited September 11, 2014 by Lammbock

[SantiSuk]

I feel really sorry for a lot of the younger Thai's who must have the latest I-phone. Most live in the villages and do not even have internet access. Most buy their expensive trinket on finance too.

In contrast, my Samsung mobile can contact most people I want to speak to, receive calls and even has an alarm clock built in. The battery is usually good for a couple of weeks without a charge too. Okay, it's not a 'smart phone' and it cannot access the internet. Nor can I send lines or play 'cookie run'. But at 700 Baht I think its a snip.

I dislike smart phones too - all that battery charging rules my wife's life. My UK HTC does totally unpredictable things when I touch the sides and I dislike all phone cameras for anything but staged pictures.

My wife saw the 6 on the news yesterday and I got the "teelak - buy me the new i-phone". I said I would pay half only if she would factor in the sale of her 4 and if she could tell me right then what the 6 did better than the 4. She hasn't spoken to me since

[watcharacters]

Why buy on the grey market at inflated prices here, when you can simply order from Singapore or Hong Kong and have it delivered to your door within a couple of days at the recommended retail price.

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I'd like to know how you can buy it from Hong Kong if you're in Thailand and have it delivered to an address in Thailand.

Did you just make that up?

[Searat7]

Thailand has never been in the first tier of countries selling IPhone so waiting a few extra weeks is expected and should not be a big deal.

[merijn]

Ordered my Iphone 6 Plus today from the UK Apple store.

Should be being delivered in about 3 weeks and send to me in Thailand. :-)