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More iPhone Details - $599 4GB and $649 8GB? [Updated]

Bubbasteve said:
Yeah .... I sure do hope not.

IMO I think $249 seems like a more realistic price...at most $300....l but definitely not $599
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Treo 700p

Retail - $649
with Service plan - $249

Have you all not ever bought a cell phone? This price isn't completely "out there" assuming it's is more than just a basic phone.

arn
 
slffl said:
My god I can't believe the people here. Do you really think Apple is that stupid? Do you really think they are going to try to sell a regular phone at crazy prices? C'mon, give them some credit. Wait until it comes out and stop whining about pure rumors. I'm sure they researched it to death what the iphones features should be and how much it should cost.
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well if not they better read these forums
 
arn said:
Treo 700p

Retail - $649
with Service plan - $249

Have you all not ever bought a cell phone? This price isn't completely "out there" assuming it's is more than just a basic phone.

arn
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Arn, I assume people were looking for the best apple cell phone in the world- for little or no money. If they'd rather buy a laptop- let them get one. Either wait and upgrade, switch to cingular, or suck it up and buy the darn thing.
 
The prices aren't uncharacteristic. Cellular phone electronics are tricky business, everyone just happens to be used to the "fifty-nine" dollar price that so many cell phone providers offer subsidized by a 2 year contract. The price of a motorola RAZR not tied to any provider can range from $250 to $400 depending on the specific model. Adding all the iPod circuitry, which we are happy to pay $150 for on its own, and factor in a $50 "cool" premium or factor in the extra cost of bitchin' interface, and you're already at the price point mentioned.
 
thejadedmonkey said:
Moto v551. It's basically a RAZR, but not so thin, and with real buttons
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Ummm, that's not basically a RAZR, it's the slightly updated version of this phone:
phone.jpg
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Shares about 95% of the same internals. Thing is, the phone in the picture is nearly three years old.
 
I'm pretty interested in this phone even though I have just got a new one recently. The thing is though, I refuse to get a phone unless it is offered for free as an upgrade or a new contract. I guess that puts me out of the iPhone target market.

I would certainly be interested to see what happens when it comes to the UK though. I think it would probably do pretty well over here.
 
I doesn't sound like apple. There is no logic about the prices. if its going to cost 600, for 50$ more, I'll get 8GB more. Is has no sence. Apple would have set only a 8Gb model if those were the prices.

I don't buy it. And if it is really true, at those prices I woundn't buy the iphone either.

I do believe the 249$ rumor :D
 
If these prices are true then **** the iPhone... I'm just going to buy some other piece of garbage phone that I can toss away in a year.

I hope that this is not true, I've waited a long time for this phone, but refuse to pay such high prices... or sign a contract to get it for less

A real shame if this is a reality....
 
Sean.Perrin said:
If these prices are true then **** the iPhone... I'm just going to buy some other piece of garbage phone that I can toss away in a year.

I hope that this is not true, I've waited a long time for this phone, but refuse to pay such high prices... or sign a contract to get it for less

A real shame if this is a reality....
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So you expect apple, a company which traditionally has higher prices because of the increased costs of R&D and higher quality materials in their products to miraculously release a phone for less than all the other electronics firms? Grow up. This is the world. . . Welcome.
 
pake said:
I doesn't sound like apple. There is no logic about the prices. if its going to cost 600, for 50$ more, I'll get 8GB more. Is has no sence. Apple would have set only a 8Gb model if those were the prices.

I don't buy it. And if it is really true, at those prices I woundn't buy the iphone either.

I do believe the 249$ rumor :D
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I definetely overlooked that. Who would get the 4 gig version? For 50 dollars more, you twice the amount of space. I don't believe this rumor at all.
 
If it was a world phone with NO compromises, I'd buy it. In a heartbeat.

But I understand I may be an exception. I travel the world and rely heavily on my cell phone. Every phone on the market sucks, so if this was really and truly the phone with Apple quality, it would be easily be worth it to me.

It'll be interesting to see what happens next year...
 
appleintelrock said:
Exactly, ugly and cheaply made. His point exactly.
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I resent that. It's IMO, nicer than the RAZR, and more durable too. After being left in damp grass for a while, it faired much better than my friends' RAZR did (which was left right next to it).

And I think you missed the point. It's almost 2 years old, the phone that person posted is almost 3 years old, and shares ~85% of the RAZR's innards. Basically, we're still expected to pay a $400 premium for software and looks if the rumor is true.
 
BWhaler said:
If it was a world phone with NO compromises, I'd buy it. In a heartbeat.

But I understand I may be an exception. I travel the world and rely heavily on my cell phone. Every phone on the market sucks, so if this was really and truly the phone with Apple quality, it would be easily be worth it to me.

It'll be interesting to see what happens next year...
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Yeah, it's going to be hard to compare this phone to the pooh-nuggets offered by other manufacturers.
 
thejadedmonkey said:
I resent that. It's IMO, nicer than the RAZR, and more durable too. After being left in damp grass for a while, it faired much better than my friends' RAZR did (which was left right next to it).

And I think you missed the point. It's almost 2 years old, the phone that person posted is almost 3 years old, and shares ~85% of the RAZR's innards. Basically, we're still expected to pay a $400 premium for software and looks if the rumor is true.
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If durability is what you're looking for, pick up this gem:
nextel.jpg
from motorola. That phone has been dropped in water about a dozen times from a golf water hazard to a brackish river, been dropped onto concrete from 80 feet off a microwave tower, been thrown in to countless solid objects by me because nextel service is so ****** that you can hardly ever use the phone which is the true shame, I'd never need another phone if that one wasn't a nextel. :-( verizon doesn't have a version of the venerable i530.
 
Not a mass market product

I don't think the iPhone is a mass market product. It is a high end niche one. Think of the "Mac Pro" as an example. It will be a status and innovative product but not one that everyone will have because of supply and cost. I don't think the phone companies would go something cheap and far better than other offerings from the mobile handset player. They would never want to see Apple have a huge market in handsets like iPods.

The very high end Treo's and Smartphones and designer handsets is the model, not the mass market one.
 
I don't need something durable, I'm just commenting...

and there's no way the phone is going to be a nitch market if they're making 12m of them... at least not unless Apple has plans on becoming very very very rich
 
way to pricey for my blood.. but then again, that is what i said about the ipod when it first came out, only to buy one a year later.
 
They can get stuffed.

I'm happy to pay a premium on Apple computer hardware (and stretch it to iPods, etc), but when you convert $US599 to Australian Dollars, it will cost $AUD860, but that is before Apple Australia "adjust" the price to their liking as they do with all Apple hardware. You'll probably look at $AUD950 for the base model phone. I don't consider a phone to be a luxury item, eventhough it is made by Apple. Who the fsck can afford an outright phone for just under $1000?! It's piss-takingly expensive. I really don't think they have the clout to command an over-priced product on the heels of iPod's success. This thing better make coffee otherwise.

Of course, the basis of this rant is relative to these prices being valid. (and if the "iPhone" will be released)
 
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