the prices are insane, ya cant sell a phone for the same price as a mac mini.
you can sell a phone for more money than you pay for a Mac Pro. Click here. I believe the prices start at around $2.000 and end at around $50.000.
the prices are insane, ya cant sell a phone for the same price as a mac mini.
...and this is why America is so far behind. Contracts here are a year and some are at 18 months tops. A 2 year contract is unheard of in the UK. Most people into gadgets and tech in the UK (or even just bored people) buy phones SIM free. CEX and many other franchises have entire shops dedicated to phones (used/new and unlocked).
There is no way on this planet people in the UK will go for a 2 year contract. Text messaging bundles keep popping up (you know text in the US ? SMS? I know you don't use it much but here it's probably more popular than email - include the 16-25 year olds in this camp) and minutes on the contract are ever-changing to keep up with competition. 2 year contracts? No way.
Go right ahead, you can keep the phone and your phone-number.
You can in the U.S. too, for about $200 (~4 months of service) if you have GSM.
Those prices are absolutely outrageous. why not just pay as you go? Here you could get a service which has monthly subscription-fee of 0-3e/month, and calls (outgoing only, incoming calls are free) cost about 0.06e/minute. Of course those services have every option imaginable enabled by default (conference-calls, call-forwarding, datacalls, answering-machine, SMS, etc. etc. etc.)
I use my phone daily (including datacalls), and it seems that my monthly cell-phone bill is about 20-25e/month.
Those prizes are a madness.
I was saving for the iPhone, but I wont pay that money for a mobile phone.
And why on earth should Apple elect to work first with a company (Cingular) that consistently has inferior services to others (Verizon). I love Apple products, but will not switch to a company that gives you poorer coverage and more dropped calls.
The Orange Network in the UK will be having this phone as an exclusive until April 2007 - they are trying to compete with the 3 network which is very sussessful with their MusicStore - having over 1 million downloads a month in the UK alone!