iPhone owners are iRate!!!
sduford on Sep 07 2007 at 8:26 am | Filed under: Mobile Devices, Technology
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Just 10 weeks ago, otherwise sane individuals were camping overnight in long lines for the privilege of paying $599 for a mobile phone. These people were fully aware that most wireless companies will give you a basic phone for free, but the object of their ardor was anything but basic. It was a lifestyle choice. It was an advertisement for oneself. It was a shiny little slice of the future, a thin slab of cool. So what if it cost, gulp, six hundred bucks? How could anyone get hung up over anything so prosaic as the price?
But when CEO Steve Jobs announced Wednesday that Apple was slashing the iPhone’s price by a third—meaning that owning a slice of the future now sets you back only $399—the iPhone Internet forums lit up with buyers who felt they’d been taken for chumps.
Meanwhile I’m still very happy with my HTC S620 Smartphone. It is very small and very thin, it has a great screen, a good keyboard, a good camera, excellent battery life, excellent support for Microsoft Exchange’s email, schedule and contacts (including direct push email), it runs Windows Mobile 6 and last but not least, would you believe it actually works great as A PHONE! Yes it provides good signal quality and good sound, it even has a decent speakerphone mode. It’s the best “phone” of all the “SmartPhones” I have ever tried.
