Apple iPhone

Jess · #1 06-12-2007, 03:21 PM

Just curious to know who else is willing to cough up $500-$600 for an apple iphone. I know it's not cost effective, but it's a hell of a gadget. I wish it was less expensive and had more memory though. I mean, the ipod has 80 Gb., why is the iphone only 4-8 Gb.? Maybe one of you tech-savy guys can answer that........

espire · #2 06-12-2007, 04:23 PM

The reason is because while the 80gb iPod uses a hard drive (it's a spinning metal disc inside the iPod), the iPhone uses flash memory (smaller, faster, better battery life, more reliable) like the iPod Nano and Shuffle. Unfortunately, flash memory is much more expensive than hard drives, but the price is drastically decreasing all the time.

The iPhone is also more expensive because of other factors. It's got all the guts of a phone, a camera, the full size touch screen, and all the money that went into the project. Eventually, the price of the iPhone will fall.

Chommpers · #3 06-12-2007, 04:34 PM

Well I think the razor was really high and near the same price of the iPhone I believe when it came out to and had no where near the same amount of features as the iPhone. This thing has all you could want a phone, a ipod, and the real internet all in one. Two seperate batteries so listening to music wont kill your phone talk time. It is just cool and people everywhere are gunna get one. My dad is grabing one as soon as his contract is up.

brad · #4 06-12-2007, 05:05 PM

I am buying one ..

It is expensive, but when you consider that I bought a 300$ Ipod, and a 150$ RAZR (when they came out) .. it isn't really 'unfair' price.

It would probably be smart to wait for the second generation for a lot of reasons (bugs, price drop, etc). but i think i will cough up the cash to get one early ...

dn3 · #5 06-12-2007, 05:46 PM

Mark my words, the noughties will be remembered for the ipod. Hope functionality lives up to the hype.

lead2gold · #6 06-12-2007, 06:05 PM

How large is the hard drive? Unless its similar to the current gen iPods (30-80gigs) I just can't see this being worth the money.

nurvonic · #7 06-12-2007, 06:09 PM

i might get one as soon im able to scrape up the cash. 500 - 600 is too expensive for me, especially on my budget.

or i could just stick to the cell phone, ipod, computer and camera that i have now

i posted this before, but it goes to show how much you could really do with this machine
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espire · #8 06-12-2007, 06:38 PM

The main problem is that the only way developers will be able to write their own apps is through the browser. This severely limits the types of applications that the iPhone will be able to have

Drake498 · #9 06-12-2007, 07:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brad

It would probably be smart to wait for the second generation for a lot of reasons (bugs, price drop, etc). but i think i will cough up the cash to get one early ...

It looks sweet, but it is rather pricy, and like brad said, its prolly better to wait for the second edition for them to work out all the kinks...

aditya8617 · #10 06-12-2007, 08:07 PM

I am going to wait for 2nd edition as well as I might have money by then and also they would get better. After I bought the ipod the nano came out. Don't want that to happen again with iphone.