….You Shouldn’t Buy a 3G iPhone
1. While it’s a relatively inexpensive investment upfront - $199 for the 8GB model and $299 for the 16GB model - it will cost you a lot of run in the long-term given you have to pay for a wireless data plan to take advantage of many of the iPhone’s features. Once the wireless carriers have you and your iPhone in their grasp, they can pretty much do whatever they want when it comes to data prices because there’s little way you’re going to give up your iPhone. It’s also unlikely that you will switch to another carrier because no one will want to kill the golden (iPhone) goose.
2. If you’re taken by the iPhone features, a cheaper option is getting a Touch (which doesn’t feature a phone) or get yourself an iPhone made over the last year (aka iPhone 1.0). Both options give you the cool functionality without paying for an increasingly expensive data plan.
3. Before rushing on the iPhone bandwagon, consumers would be wise to look at what other smart phone makers are doing. Reseach in Motion, for example, has some pretty hot looking Blackberrys in the Bold and Thunder. Nokia also has some cool smartphones, including the N95.
4. You should ask yourself, do you really need an iPhone or has Steve Jobs done yet another masterful marketing job on everyone…again? Sure, the new iPhone is cool, trendy and well-designed but is it really an essential, must-have device? Probably not but many consumers aren’t that rational or pragmatic, which is why millions of iPhones will be flying off the shelves soon.
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June 13th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
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