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Rogers Wireless Web Page Appears to Confirm 8 GB iPhone 3GS
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And on that note, it's time to go to bed. No Sleep + Pulled Muscle In Shoulder + Vicodin = Loosing My MindAgreed. Why would you even want to put 720p content on your phone, much less 1080p??? Don
Good night Don; been there and done that.....
You know, this really makes perfect sense, in my opinion. Apple is giving one more option to those of us who don't need all of the extra storage space and there are people out there that would rather have an extra $100 bucks in their pocket, especially if they don't see them self using up all that extra space.
I was going to pass on this generation of the iPhone 3GS because I didn't want to pay for an iPhone that was already so similar to my current iPhone 3G, but if I can save another $100 bucks on an iPhone 3GS, I may actually consider upgrading now..
You're crazy. Why would Apple or any carrier want to provide the consumer with a more reasonable, cost effective method of buying their products when they could force you to give them extra cash while at the same time smiling and giving you the middle finger?
/end sarcasm.
To say that I'm not surprised at all by this move would be an understatement. But, at the same time, it sort of just makes sense given how Apple does their business. Why keep producing the old phones when you could just product all the new models (more cost effective instead of having multiple manufacturing lines)?
Apple doesn't treat their products like other companies where they intend to have "multiple" products in the lineup. Everything is the same product with just slightly different guts. Even the Macbook's, iMacs, everything-else-Apple-has is just one product with minor differences between them.
They just wanted to get rid of current stock before doing that, which is what any company would do. If they put out an 8GB 3GS at launch, the sales of the 8GB 3G would have slowed down probably to the point of them never selling them unless there was a big price difference. Seeing as how the 8GB 3G is only $99 that'd mean the 3GS 8GB would be $99.99-$149.99 and the 8GB 3G would be $49.99-$99.99. At only a $50 difference even then it just would make more sense to get the 3GS. So, standard business decision there for obvious reasons.
But, now that you have 16GB, would you really go back to 8GB? I suppose maybe if you don't actually use it, but I've got 14GB used on my 32GB 3GS right now, mostly from digital copies of my blu-ray movies.
Call me a hypocrite or not. I've been bitten, actually closure to smitten. I've been a true die-hard S60 device user or SonyEricsson device user (still want the W995a but NOT over $300CAN) for so many years. Since I bought my wife the iPod Touch 16GB model and seeing first hand just how fast transitioning apps is (not jailbroken) I now want one.
Even just for 1 year until a seriously powerful Maemo 5 (Nokia N900) or similar device with capacitive touch with speed like iPhone ... I just may cave for an 8GB model. However I'm already tied with a contract with 2.4yrs left.
I see this as an opportune yet desperate move by Rogers Wireless.
Telus & Bell already have HSPA licenses available and I can already pickup their HSPA towers on my E71 where I live in the downtown to west of Toronto its likely they'll launch soon. This means price wars for suitable devices that once unlocked can goto anything under the sun.
Smart move though if Rogers launches this JUST IN TIME FOR SCHOOL sale time. Why??
1. Price is just perfect for the new set to niner-miners and ankle biters alike.
2. Young kids of middle-class (I hate classes) families under 16 will now have a reasonable arguement to get one ~ heck even high-low paid families can afford one of these 8GB devices on contract.
3. Rogers just announced a 21Mbps download peak network upgrade for Toronto & Ontario initially ... that means for those that consume data and purge multimedia quickly for that 8GB space this is a perfect cost to ownership & use ratio device.
I doubt it, since both columns are ticked for 8gb.
*oops* Just noticed someone displayed the whole chart a few posts up. Anyway it just clarifies what I was saying
I agree - it's probably a cheaper for Apple to make the same handsets with different memory capacities, than it is for them to make two sets of phones with different internals. I'll be jumping on an 8GB one as soon as it's released!
last weekend I was in my local shopping mall and I saw Telstra having a huge sign about the 8GB iPhone being available. I assume it's the new 3GS but I never asked because I don't really like Telstra. I haven't seen Vodafone mentioning anything yet though...
Zune can't handle anything at this moment since so far it's vapourware.
Even at the vapourware stage however microsoft can't bring two very complicated parties together the font designers and the screen size designers...it's like iran iraq to them...hence the pathetic happenstance of a marketplac/e on the screen....
ALL HAIL MS, for they have truly showed us what embarrassing oneself truly means.
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It seems a bit underhanded to sell the 8 GB 3G stock off and the offer an 8 GB 3GS for pretty much the same price. I guess that is the way that it goes with new technology though.
It seems a bit underhanded to sell the 8 GB 3G stock off and the offer an 8 GB 3GS for pretty much the same price. I guess that is the way that it goes with new technology though.
From a value perspective, $99 for a 8GB iPhone 3G S is almost too good to be true. It doesn't cost $99 to go from 8GB to 16GB of flash memory. I'm inclined to suspect that Apple might disable video support and 7.2MB/s support, to make it more like an iPhone 3G with faster processor and GPU. Maybe even use one of the codenames people have found in the firmware. Conversely, it seems unlikely that Apple would artificially fragment their models further, especially with third-party video APIs coming in iPhone OS 3.1.
From Apple's original announcement, there really wasn't any indication that the $99 8GB iPhone 3G would be while supplies last whereas this was explicitly stated for the $149 16GB iPhone 3G. Although, it's not like Apple would pre-announce their change of heart. Still, I think it's possible that the 8GB iPhone 3G will remain a model and at $99. $149 for a 8GB iPhone 3G S seems reasonable. It may be that Rogers is being generous is deciding Canadians no longer need a $99 8GB iPhone 3G and would rather buy a more expensive iPhone 3G S. Seeing how Canadians seem to pay more for less wireless service than other places in the world this wouldn't surprise me.
From Apple's original announcement, there really wasn't any indication that the $99 8GB iPhone 3G would be while supplies last whereas this was explicitly stated for the $149 16GB iPhone 3G. Although, it's not like Apple would pre-announce their change of heart. Still, I think it's possible that the 8GB iPhone 3G will remain a model and at $99. $149 for a 8GB iPhone 3G S seems reasonable. It may be that Rogers is being generous is deciding Canadians no longer need a $99 8GB iPhone 3G and would rather buy a more expensive iPhone 3G S. Seeing how Canadians seem to pay more for less wireless service than other places in the world this wouldn't surprise me.
It would be nice if they replace teh 3g with an 8GB 3GS and a small price drop. £300 on Pay as You go (£42.50 reduction) would have me sold.
Won't get my hopes up though.
Won't get my hopes up though.
http://www.isuppli.com/NewsDetail.aspx?ID=20398
Finally found the component cost of the 16GB iPhone 3G S. It's $178.96. The 16GB of flash memory costs $24. Apple charges carriers much higher prices for the phone, so they'd still make a profit, but a $99 8GB iPhone 3G S would mean consumers pay below component cost because of carrier subsidies, which I don't think has happened for an iPhone before. Carriers of course would still make it back over time with a contract.
Finally found the component cost of the 16GB iPhone 3G S. It's $178.96. The 16GB of flash memory costs $24. Apple charges carriers much higher prices for the phone, so they'd still make a profit, but a $99 8GB iPhone 3G S would mean consumers pay below component cost because of carrier subsidies, which I don't think has happened for an iPhone before. Carriers of course would still make it back over time with a contract.
Even at the vapourware stage however microsoft can't bring two very complicated parties together the font designers and the screen size designers...it's like iran iraq to them...hence the pathetic happenstance of a marketplac/e on the screen....
ALL HAIL MS, for they have truly showed us what embarrassing oneself truly means.
hahaha, thanks for posting.
Since when did the 3G not include a 16GB capacity and not come in white?
Since the 3GS came out.
Since when did the 3G not include a 16GB capacity and not come in white?
Since the 3GS came out the 3G has been available in 8GB black only.
