I just read about it there, apparently the Italian network had an agreement with Apple that if they charge more for the phone than any other european country they would be able to share it out on unlocked.
It would explain where the people on eBay are getting the phones and selling them for £1,000 each!
Yeh I agree with you on the TomTom software, I have two phones at the moment. The N95 8GB and the iPhone 3G, both business phones, and the GPS system on the N95 is good BUT it's a laggy and the phone has a habbit of going into power mode meaning your lose your route.