I was in an AT&T (formerly Cingular) mobile phone store. There was a big video display for the iPhone, but no phones on the counter. "Did they sell out?" I asked the clerk.

"Nope. Someone broke in and stole them," he said. "We saw it on the surveillance video. They were in and out in 30 seconds. They ran over to the iPhones, cut the cables, and left."

"Did they take anything else?" I asked, thinking I saw a new commercial in the making.

"Oh yeah, they took the Treos too."

Sorry, Apple. No commercial.

And sorry, RIM. They left the Blackberries. Personally, I would have grabbed a Pearl on the way out.

"Web site “Jabucnjak” (eng. Appleville) has some hot and exclusive news and this isn’t new iMac. iPhone is in Croatia and works!  Of course every unit purchased in USA on AT&T network would work in Croatia in roaming mode, but that would be news.

We can come to conclusion that enthusiast win again and where quicker than official solution. Just remember Intel Macs that run Windows before Apple released BootCamp. We hope that rest of us shouldn’t wait to long for Apple to release official version of iPhone that could be available in Croatia. But some problems might occur because activation of iPhone is done over iTunes Store, witch isn’t available in Croatia. We still hope that there would be another way to activate – some codes for Operators.

This iPhone unit (on pictures) is modded that can use T-mobile network like any other cell phone. Receiving calls, calling and SMS works normally. Of course, EDGE connection isn’t available everywhere so it connect to Internet over fast wireless connection where is available. Every Internet option of iPhone works with the exception of YouTube application.

On Internet you can find web pages that describe how to mod (“hack”), and “Jabucnjak” must warm that procedure isn’t simple and at end you loose warranty. On our knowledge modding is possible thought iPhone’s firmware, and with SIM cloning – witch can be describe like illegal operation witch can be realized. In every case this news confirm that iPhone can work in Croatia, and for rest of us is hope that we could purchase it in recent future here too.

Our pool shows that interest for iPhone is large – about 33% of users said that would purchased it no matter of terms and about 25% has voted that would buy it if price is reasonable. About 11% users of “Jabucnjak” is not interested in iPhone. "