> "Ron" wrote:
>>> "iPhone News" wrote:
>>> AT&T is planning to put some extra shine on the even sleeker new Apple
>>> iPhone.
>>>
>>> When the 3G iPhone is introduced this summer, AT&T, the exclusive U.S.
>>> iPhone sales partner with Apple, will cut the price by as much as $200,
>>> according to a person familiar with the strategy.
>>>
>>> AT&T is preparing to subsidize $200 of the cost of a new iPhone,
>>> bringing the price down to $199 for customers who sign two-year
>>> contracts, the source says. Apple is expected to have two versions of
>>> the new iPhone, an 8-gigabyte-memory and a 16-gigabyte-memory model with
>>> price tags widely expected to be $399 and $499.
>>>
>>> AT&T and Apple declined to comment.
>>
>>That's because Nokia must be laughing their butts off.
>>
>>I can already tell you what's in the next generation of iPhone already:
>>
>>1. Built-in proprietary battery that requires you to send to Apple to get
>>fixed, but it is outdated by then.
>
> And Nokia doesn't use proprietary batteries?
Nope. Can change a N-95 BL-5F high-cap. battery out in a snap for $29.99
from TigerDirect. No dismantling of the phone or sending it off to Nokia is
required. even Radio Shack for an OEM BL-5F for $15.99.
>
> And 3rd parties already will supply a replacement battery
> assuming you want to keep using a 2 year + old iPhone.
>
>>2. Built-in RAM so you do not get the capability of using your own mini-SD
>>cards to increase same (or change MP3 files).
>
> The Built in RAM is more than you can get with any SD card.
Ummm... Sorry, but you're wrong again. SanDisk SD cards now go up to 32
GB. Even the AT&T Tilt can accept a micro-SD card up to 32 GB when
available. That's forwards thinking adn not planned obsolescece like the
iPhone.
>
>>3. Overpriced for what it isn't (a decent phone).
> The sales figures say different.
Yeah. Like Korea and China and Europe are just flocking to buy an outdated
tech iPhone. Pleeze!
>>4. Lack of many options already available in other phones (ergo, their
>>dismal overseas units vs. HTC, Nokia, whomever).
>
> Again, sales figures say different. http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16070/53/ http://www.infopackets.com/channels/...ed_to_slow.htm
If it's from macworld, you just know it's true. LOL!
>>5. Dismal lack of software - although they supply an SDK kit, their
>>simpletons cannot use it nor want to.
>
> Lots of 3rd party web based software already, SDK built
> software starting in July, which should assure lack of crashes so
> common on Treo devices.
Too bad Apple owner's cannot use it. Remember, the Apple is for those who
don't like programming or playing with the technology. The power users will
go to HTC where forums like XDA constantly write programs and hack the
phones to tailer their needs.
>>6. Dumbed down Wi-Fi GPS that requires phone or Wi-Fi signal to get a
>>server-based map.
>
> Free WiFi is a problem? You'd rather pay $300 additional and up
> for a slightly better featured Garmin
No. You didn't read correctly. "Server-based maps" as in you need a
connection for the iphone to work as a GPS. Example, Garmin XT uses a
micro-SD card along with the "built-in" GPS chip of such equipped phones and
you can use the phone as a GPS unit away from a tower or Wi-Fi. Apple isn't
there yet - or their owners are afraid to get out of the city away from a
tower.
>>7. Some upgrade that requires a price drop in a few months to a newer
>>model.
>
> Sell you iPhone on eBay, buy iPhone 2 if thats what you want.
Why take another step backwards? Heck, I could get an HTC Tilt and that
technolgy offers me all of the above that the iPhone doesn't. Apple will
come out with Gen-3 of the iPhone and copy other's technology who will have
pulled away by then anyhow.
>>But their lemmings will follow....just like when they said "No one else
>>will
>>ever have a Touch-Screen." Yeah. Right. LOL!
>
> Nokia lemmings fail to see the TRUTH about iPhone.
Naw. The Nokia, Samsung, and HTC people just laugh at the children's toy
iphone. However, the iphone serves a purpose for people with lower IQs and
cannot work technology - and that is their greatest benefit.
B~