Why ayePhone
Published by nospam.cian January 10th, 2007 in Gimping. Tags: apple, gadgets, iphone, techician.Quick TechniCian entry as have had a pile emails about the iPhone. I bet there will be about 500,000 posts exactly the same as this and I hate being topical/geek but it’s a one-off.
I reckon v.cool but possible horribly expensive.
What’s innovative:
Multi-press touchscreen
OSesque + widgets
Anti face-smear sensor
What’s cool
Ace screen and horizontal/vertical tilt detection.
iTunes + CoverFlow interface.
SMS threads + visual voicemail
Finally possibly a keyboard-less phone that works.
Push Yahoo email that just appears but I WANT GMAIL
What’s uncool
$599 on a 2 year contract
No expandable memory, only a 2 megapixel camera, slightly wide and not 3G.
Fear of insta-mugging
Who is this targeted at? Cityfolk? It ain’t a Blackberry. The iPod masses? - um $599. The techfreaks and applewhores? (of which I am both). Probably.
Job has possibly made the ultimate gadget but will he really take 1% mobile share as he predicts? Could this be his Newton and be too soon. TOO SOON!!! I’m holding out for the 80 gig video iPhone styled iPod. With a side-order of of wi-fi.
It’ll sell.
And you know by god you want one.
It doesn’t need to be expandable it’s syncs for bliming heck and it has a 4-8 gb drive.
It’ll sell to iPod people who have a phone. It’ll then creep in on the non corporate blackberry market.
Actually are you telling me ever exec in the world wont want one?
I want one almost more than I want a girlfriend.
It’s not small but no bigger than it should be.
Oh god it looks good
So so so damn good.
Oh god it’s like techie sex.
It is the greatest bit of geekery for a long time. It kicks the PSP out the window. But unless he gets RIM support for Blackberry - will the cityboys carry both?
A V3 Razor on Cingular is $200 on a 2 year contract. Monthly contract is $60.
A V3 Razor in the UK is free on a 12 month £25 contract.
A sim-free Razor in the UK is £100 and in the US around $249.
So it looks like the Networks in the US barely subsidise the phone with the contract in the US whereas in the UK the cost of the phone is included in around 1/3 of the total contract cost.
So roughly $599 after a 20% subsidy would mean the sim-free US cost of the iPhone is $750 bucks. So about £300 sim free in the UK - which probably won’t happen with Apple’s international pricing. £400.
So £200-£300 on a 12 month £25 a month contract using back of napkin logic. Given what it can do - PDA, iPod nano, get you laid by Sevitz - it will probably sell by the bucket. And get stolen by the truckload. Daily Mail headline mid 2008 - ‘iPhone related crime-wave hits London. Immigration control, MMR and Celebrity Big Brother to blame’
oooooh. I want one…and btw, I am sending out your gift, sorry I hadn’t thusfar.
Thank god someone thought to explain this: I was rather lost, confused, despondent…