If you’ve been wanting an iPhone but didn’t want to spend the money, you’re in luck. At yesterday’s media event, Steve Jobs announced the 4gb iPhone would be going the way of the 20gb PS3, and the 8gb iPhone would see a price drop to $399. That’s a $200 price drop for those counting.
Sucks for early adopters with this huge price drop just 2 months after release, but this is going to sell a LOT more iPhones for Apple.
Check out our review here if you need some more information. The iPhone is easily the best mobile device I’ve ever had.
I personally want an iphone, but what I don’t want is a mere 8 gig HDD. They need to put a 30-gig in the iphone if they want to milk me out of a few hundred bucks.
There’s no way you’re going to get a 32gb flash memory chip inside anything for under $1000 right now. And hard drives are too big and unstable for the iPhone.
The 8GB really isn’t that big a deal for me. I have my 80GB iPod with everything. I made a playlist with literally every song I would normally want to listen to, and it’s 4GB. I put that big playlist (and narrowed down versions of it) onto my iPhone and use it all the time. My 80GB iPod only gets used when I’m on trips or anything where I don’t want to waste the iPhone battery.
Yeah, I have the 80-gig ipod too, but if I go away for the weekend, I don’t like lugging around the ipod and my phone. I’ve paid up to $700 for a smart phone before, so I really have no problem plunking down the cash if the phone is worth it.
Right now I have the Blackjack, and 2-gig cards for it cost ~$20 each, so my $75 dollar phone with 4 cards is still under $200. I only have to tape the extra cards to the inside of the battery cover.
wow i guess they want to gear up for hte holidays. that or they want to get rid of the first generation phones to make way for their rumored new nano phone?
If there was an iPhone nano, it would have been announced yesterday. I wouldn’t expect any new iPhone announcements until the middle/end of 2008, if not later
Man, I JUST got a new phone this week through AT&T too… ahhh, maybe next time.
CJ – within 10 days of purchase, you can get it price matched. Take it back to ATT and they’ll refund you $200
1) @drunk pandas later then middle/end of 2008 feels a bit like an exageration, I mean the new iMac was just released and now this. If apple keeps this up they’ll have everyone buying there products and maybe even regular new products.
2) Cingular service isn’t that good, a lot of ‘no service’ areas. thats why I’d get the new touch ipod so i could have wifi, touch screen, and a smaller ipod. Of course my 80GB (Ithink thats how big) video ipod will not be thrown out or sold.
Game Hard – Apple’s product cycle is a little over a year to a year and half for all products in their pipeline. There’s no reason to break that for the iPhone. Sure, new iMacs were introduced, but the previous revision was two years ago.
AT&T has better service than Verizon everywhere I’ve been. There were many many places I didn’t get service with Verizon that I have full signal now with the iPhone. And I’ve literally only encountered 2 dead zones with AT&T, and Verizon didn’t have service in those spots either.
Hey Pandas, I wanna know where you go that AT&T is better than verzon. I have two phones, unfortunately, because my phone for work is AT&T and my personal phone is Verizon. I travel all over the country on a fairly regular basis, and in 95% of the places I go, Verizon far outperforms AT&T. And of the 5% that AT&T is better, those places are usually out in the middle of nowhere in small towns that only have one carrier available and there is no verizon service availability at all. Now this is for the USA only, as of course the CDMA network is not available in other countries and the GSM network is all that is supported (this is the main reason they make us use AT&T for work as there are many trips back and forth to Germany).
Now to clarify, I did have some bad luck with my personal phone during a span when I had an LG phone, but it was definitely the phone and not the service (had problems with the LG in my own house that I never had with the motorolas either before or since) and other than that I only use motorola, and have never had a problem with a motorola phone in a verizon service area. I would try an iphone if they would be made available on Verizon, but I won’t switch my service provider unless I see some drastic improvements in AT&T’s coverage areas.
Just my 2 cents if anyone cares…
In upstate NY, the Poconos, all of Delaware and the Philly area… I get signal in more places with AT&T than I did with Verizon. Hell, I even lost signal in the middle of Manhattan walking on the street with Verizon quite a few times. I’ve literally only had 2 places where I haven’t had signal with AT&T so far, and I didn’t have anything with Verizon there either (one is my boat dock in the Poconos and the other is on the 8th hole of my country club).
Thank’s for the heads up. I have been wanting an iphone. I can fit that into my budget.