That's the sorta marketing Telekom Pr people would be immensely proud of. What you have to imagine is an entire store in magenta, a garish pinkish red color. But here's the best part the company claims they patented the color.S, M, L or XL ???
Do they WEAR their iPhones in Germany?
The basic problem is, that there are too few "free minutes" and too few SMS/Text to begin with. Basically nobody would want to sign up for that... T-Mobile in Germany basically sucks.
For example,the cheapest service plan up to now:
For 49,- EURs a month you get 100 Minutes and 40 SMS - sorry, but thats completely pathetic. Compare it with AT&T service plan: For $59 you get 450 Minutes and 200 SMS/Textmessages.
S, M, L or XL ???
Do they WEAR their iPhones in Germany?
Not an entirely fair comparison, since you have to pay to recieve texts and calls in the US, unlike Germany, and these count against your minutes allowance. Also the US plan price doesn't include sales tax.
Man, my contract with Sprint is ending in a few weeks. If this deal comes to the US, I will jump all over it. The service plan is fairly priced, and I don't mind the 2 year contract. My only concern is the high initial cost of purchase. Hell, give me a deal and I'll sign a four year contract.
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I think Apple sold it below cost at the beginning. $999 would not have been an unreasonable price.I couldn't help but notice the italics. By "discounted" do you mean selling below cost or at a price where the carrier doesn't make a profit on the handset? That is what carriers do when they sell you a RAZR for $99.99 and have you locked into a contract. If the iPhone was discounted when released this past June, by how much was it discounted? And assuming based on your post that it was, wouldn't it still continue to be discounted - especially as the SSD has increased in capacity?
I think Apple sold it below cost at the beginning. $999 would not have been an unreasonable price.
However, SSD became much cheaper, the touchscreen probably became cheaper, etc. If you compare iPhone to iPod Touch, the price difference is enough to pay for a mobile phone - or for the extra hardware an integrated mobile phone needs.
In germany, you can´t buy any iPhone without the need of signing a 2 years contract.
So, the american can easily buy a new iPhone (lets say the 16GB), put your old (iphone at&t) sim card in it and thats it.
In germany, you cannot do this. So, you have to stay with your old iPhone the hole 24 month. If you want a new one, you have to sign up a new contract.
Do you really want an iPhone in Spain? Think about it for a second:But then ... if they bring finally the iphone for a lower price in Spain .... better for me![]()
Good point. Sooner would be just fine by me!![]()
That seems very punitive to the consumer - especially when the iP's specs are constantly improving and many people will want to upgrade to 3G or have larger SSD's.
It's current state is excellent around Greater Boston...What state is it supposed to be in?
It's supposed to be like 90% coverage of the whole country, like it is in Switzerland, for example. Less than 10% of the US population have access to 3G - that's a joke. Sorry.
US has higher 3G penetration rate than UK, France and Germany.
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/3/apple_waiting_for_3g_iphone_before_spain_italy
I suggest you carefully read the article you just referred to - there's a big difference between the number of 3G devices that have been sold and the network coverage. Close to all 3G devices also work on legacy networks when there's no 3G coverage. 3G coverage reaches somewhere between 50% and 90% in Europe and is nowhere even close to that in the US.
Again, the US is at least 2 years behind Europe when it comes to UMTS coverage. There are some in-between networks (EV-DO et al.) in the US that we wouldn't even call 3G here in Europe. I'm talking about full-blown high-speed UMTS here.
If you want to compare CDMA2000 to UMTS, don't compare the "power-up" EV-DO to basic UMTS. Compare EV-DO to HSPA and they'll be quite similar.Verizon Wireless' ev-do rev 0 network covers 240 million Americans (which is upgrading to rev A right now).
http://b2b.vzw.com/broadband/coveragearea.html
UMTS has a peak max download rate of 384 kbps. EV-DO rev 0 has a peak max download rate of 2.4 mbps.
UMTS has a peak max download rate of 384 kbps. EV-DO rev 0 has a peak max download rate of 2.4 mbps.