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["Greg Brown" <gwbrown1 AT gmail.com>]

Well Apple has never wanted to sell to the commodity crowd.  I suppose if the contact is too expensive for an iPhone we could always go with a One Laptop Per Child with Skype or some other VoIP service running in mesh mode.  :)

I am kind of bummed about the 8 gig limit.  I wanted more storage movies to play widescreen while on airplanes.  And what about airplanes?  Do I have to keep the iPhone turned off because it is a phone?  Hopefully it will have some kind of airplane mode that will turn the phone and GPS off but allow use of the iPod functions.

On 1/11/07, Tanner Lovelace <clubjuggler AT gmail.com> wrote:

On 1/10/07, Michael Williams <michael AT metalab.unc.edu> wrote:
> 2) $500?  I can't describe, on a family-friendly list, the things that
> phone would have to do to be worth $500.  However, I have never been
> much enchanted by the whole concept of smartphones and PDAs and such,
> so maybe that's a great price, I dunno.  It just seems, like... wow.
> If I want one, should I sell a kidney on Ebay *now* to avoid the rush?
>  Like I say, though, I may just be misinformed, and am totally open to
> being told that, no, really, that's a *steal*.

No one has yet mentioned that $500 is just the starting point.
>From there you *must* have a 2 year contract with Cingular.
In addition, if the experience with Cingular and the Treo are
any indication, Cingular will require that you also have a data
contract on top of a phone contract.  It's probably not any good
without an unlimited plan, so that's another $19.99/month on top
of the monthly phone costs!  I love the look of the iPhone, but my
guess is that the ongoing costs will be a real deal breaker for
anyone other than business travelers.

Cheers,
Tanner

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