On 2007-01-31, Cubit <no@not.not> wrote:
> Silly me, but the idea of a $500 phone seems absurd.

That's the first-phone-shipped price. An analyst quoted in a New York
Times business section article yesterday expected the price to drop to
about $115 within a year or two. I don't know if that is correct, but
it is typical for mobile phones to be introduced at a high price and
then drop from there.

I first saw a Motorola V3 RAZR phone in Hong Kong about 9 months before
anyone began selling them in the US. It was priced at a bit over US$1000.
It dropped quick once the volumes went up.

Dennis Ferguson