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Apple to Launch 8 GB iPhone 3GS?
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$99??? STILL TOO EXPENSIVE. APPLE IS MAKING A FORTUNE AT MY EXPENSE.
(In before all the commenters from the previous thread regarding Apple's iPhone profit margins)
Apple should supply the proletariat with free iPhones and pay us a subsidy to use them, comrades. It's the only just solution.
wow...you think thats a lot for an iphone?? the iphone is the best phone ever i think thats a great price but i have the 3gs 16GB
I was being sarcastic. $299 for my 32 gig iPhone was a great price. I've paid more than that for old Palm and Sony PDAs that had far fewer features. I don't remember anyone screaming about Palm and Sony being monopolist customer-gouging monsters at the time though.
The 2-year-contract is pretty much industry standard for devices in this category these days.
What sucks is how AT&T nickel and dimes you on services that should be free (or close to it) like text messaging. 20 cents for a text message? WTF???
It's like that bogus email about Congress trying to pass a law charging you for every email you sent. But in this case it's true!
Not to mention their obvious behind-the-scenes squelching of particular apps they feel competes with them (though I'm sure Apple shares plenty of the blame in this area).
I just can't budget in a cell phone contract. I'd like the option to have 3G wireless on the go for price checking while in stores. I think I've used 30 minutes on my T-Mobile pay as you go in the past year. I don't talk much.
Apple isn't making their money on the phone hardware anyways.
You can never have too much horsepower or storage capacity.
I remember when my dad bought a new Dell and it had a 6 gig hard drive. "SIX GIGS?" I gasped? "What do you need all that space for???"
Ah, nostalgia.
It just occurred to me that I bought my first computer 20 years ago this month. It was a Zeos 386 SX (no math coprocessor as in the DX model) with a 32 meg HD. I "upgraded" the RAM to a whopping 1MB from 640K. It came with a 14" monitor that was limited to 640x480 display. DOS OS. I think I payed nearly 3K USD for it.
i already ran out of space on my 32GB 3GS and now i'm down to less than 3GB. i mostly rip in apple lossless format
this will definitely be a bonus for so many ppl. My gf doesn't have any video on hers and it's fine, in fact thinking about it I am the ONLY person I know with a 16gb let alone a 32! But I guess that's because I have over 0.5TB iTunes while most people I know are nowhere near
$99??? STILL TOO EXPENSIVE. APPLE IS MAKING A FORTUNE AT MY EXPENSE.
(In before all the commenters from the previous thread regarding Apple's iPhone profit margins)
Apple should supply the proletariat with free iPhones and pay us a subsidy to use them, comrades. It's the only just solution.
$99 for a smart phone is a good price there buddy
Thats you, most jsut want one device for everything.
You can never have too much horsepower or storage capacity.
I remember when my dad bought a new Dell and it had a 6 gig hard drive. "SIX GIGS?" I gasped? "What do you need all that space for???"
Ah, nostalgia.
+1 on the "you can never have to much horsepower or storage"
but when was this 6GBs? 1993?
We all know congress, along with the EU are run by 65-90 year old men who know nothing about technology or the way TODAYS world works. they are better off sitting at hokme watching CNN and kniting
how 'bout a twice-as-fast CPU? with twice as much RAM?
Anyway, I'm interested to see if this marks the end of the 3G. Here's hoping for yes, with this priced at $99. If no, the only price for this is $149, and that creates an interesting line up where they could up-sell people from the 3G to the 3GS or 8 GB to 16.
Yeah ... folks who aren't particularly interested in loading scores of music, video, OR apps on the phone prefer the elegance and utility of the Precious while still saving money. I know of two people so far since the 3GS was released.
you have 500GB of itunes content?
you could try Boost Mobile
http://plans.boostmobile.com/planhub.aspx
$50 bucks a month, no contract, no credit check. More coverage then crickit (Cricket sucks, as do their ads with the 12 year old kids singing an old 1960s song real bad and making a bad name for alrefha Franklin)
A cellphone doesn't offer much utility for me.
I'd just like something to price check online while I'm at Fry's or some other store before I buy. I pay $25/year for 120 minutes that I NEVER USE.
then why own a cell phone?
You could try the "pay as you go" phones. Or even a pre paid cell phone
Agreed. Here in Canada we get screwed on things like data plans compared to comparable plans in the US.
In addition, the full Rogers/Fido subsidy is $99 CDN for a 3G iPhone 8GB but forces a 3-year contract. The basic minutes/data package starts at $60/month with only 250 of daytime minutes and 1GB of data included.
I already have a pay as you go phone.
It's $25/year for 120 minutes that I never use. I already said that.
Wouldn't 6GB have been enormous for a PC in 1993, if not downright unobtainable or impossible? My Performa from 1996-ish had 1GB and that was pretty normal IIRC. My grandparents had a IIVX in the early 90s and it had 80MB I think.
Although I'm happy to have plenty of extra space, if there had been a 8GB 3GS at launch for notably less than the 16GB, I would have gotten it. Using less than 5GB on mine right now. I got it for the better hardware, not the size.
You damn people are spoiled.
Name another company that gives away money because they made new hardware. Apple doesn't have to GIVE anyone anything. In that case, I want some money when the new iMacs come out.
Ridiculous.
I already have a pay as you go phone.
It's $25/year for 120 minutes that I never use. I already said that.
Then why are you complaining then?
I want an iPhone for the 3G data access. The phone and application aspects are rather useless to me.
Unless you happen to know of a mobile internet device that would allow me to browse online while in store that won't break the bank.
You make it sound like I'm full of RAGE over it.
I wish! But I got the 8GB 3G last summer so I can't quite justify upgrading to the 3GS. I'll wait until next year when the shiny, newer, better iPhone comes out.