iPhone - How long until price drops?

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Hey, I was wondering roughly when the price will start to drop on these?

I'm seeing them on the bay selling for £330ish, unlocked. Can they actually be unlocked now?

Hope they drop in price by around January/Feb!
 
Was that not in prep for the european release though?

Like I said, i'll be surprised if it sees a big drop here any time soon.
 
mp3kla said:
Well the Viewty or Prada ain't exactly top of their league.
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Viewty>iPhone

This comes from owning a viewty and having spent ages on an iPhone.

The iPhone is just an expensive gimmik like the ipod was before better alternatives came out ;)
 
I'd be interested in the Viewty, but it has only 170mb of space, is it expandable? Does it have a decent music / video player? I may sway towards it if it can satisfy music demands.
 
The LG KU990 Viewty mobile phone has broken through the 5 megapixel barrier... but there's much more to it than a few extra pixels on your photos. The 5.1 megapixel Schneider-Kreuznach certified lens has a manual focus option, giving you total control over your pictures. An image stabiliser and xenon flash will keep your photos clearer, with built-in digital editing software letting you enhance them before uploading them to the internet using 3G technology.
The KU990 is a video recorder as well, capturing video at up to 120 frames per second - a higher quality than any previous camera phones. You can even upload your clips directly to YouTube. A large touch-controlled LCD screen makes it easy for you to control everything, either by using a stylus or by tapping with your fingers. This good-looking phone will appeal to anyone interested in photography - and anyone interested in style!
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Camera
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Camera Type 5.0 megapixels FM Radio
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Internal Phone Memory 90 mb Media Player Yes
 Memory Card Slot Yes
 Memory Card Type microSD MP3 Player Yes MP3 Tones Yes Photo/Video Editing Yes Polyphonic Tones Yes Video Recorder Yes
Car-kit Available Yes Changeable Covers No
 
jongeeone said:
Camera
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Camera Type 5.0 megapixels FM Radio
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Internal Phone Memory 90 mb Media Player Yes
 Memory Card Slot Yes
 Memory Card Type microSD MP3 Player Yes MP3 Tones Yes Photo/Video Editing Yes Polyphonic Tones Yes Video Recorder Yes
Car-kit Available Yes Changeable Covers No
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Its win win, its been rumoured the viewty will alow 8gb SD cards and with a FW update in the future 16gb SD cards :D
 
I'm actually tempted. I fancy getting my hands on one first. I'm after a new phone and I just saw this deal:

Current selection One-off cost Monthly cost
Mix & Match 500 £18.00
Video pack with mobile (90 free video minutes)
LG U990 Viewty £9.00
Handset Insurance - Premium taken by CPP Phonesafe £5.99
FREE 512mb MicroSD memory card FREE
Total cost £0.00 £32.99
You pay £32.99 a month

Mix and match of 500mins/texts, so in my case 150-200mins/350-300 texts with insurance and free 512mb mem card.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm...... you think three could offer me a better deal instore?
 
Bear in mind that you can buy one from O2/Apple/CPW for £279 and you're not bound to any contract at that point (although the phone wouldn't function "as is") - you're essentially just paying for someones time by buying it unlocked off eBay.

As to how much that is worth to you over £279 is the question, I wouldn't pay even £330 if I had a belief I could do it myself. Would you pay someone £50 to unlock a regular handset?

Not to mention that if you bought off eBay I imagine you'd have no warranty at all regardless of unlock status since the handset would've been bought (and invoiced to) the original purchaser. At least with one you've bought yourself you could always restore the lock by upgrading to the latest official firmware or whatever and take it back to O2/Apple/CPW in the event of a problem.
 
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itll drop when they release the iphone rev2 or i phone nano/mini. at the moment its a luxury item, not a mass market product and will stay that way untill apple have built up enough public conciousness to release the next 'cheaper' version.


also with the iphone unlocked you need to bear in mind that if your using it on anything other than o2, then the chancea are you wont get mobile internet or at leaste the coverage will be non existent and pathetically slow, the other networks havnt really invested in edge.
 
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Gonzo0 said:
The iPhone is just an expensive gimmik like the ipod was before better alternatives came out ;)
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I agree with the former, but the latter is just wrong.
The iPod is a music player. It does that very well.
The iPhone is ment to be a phone. It doesnt do phone functions very well. :p.
 
Dont worry I'm sure Apple will release a new version, thats slightly smaller but has exactly the same features but costs more. Good old Apple, same old re-hashed overpriced rubbish, just in a new tin.
 
Immsy said:
They will do what most other companies do I suppose. Normally drop the price once sales start to slow a bit.
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You're clearly not familiar with how Apple work. The only time the price will drop is when they replace it with a new iPhone. It doesn't matter how far behind the competition it ends up lagging, the price will stay as it is.
 
FishFluff said:
You're clearly not familiar with how Apple work. The only time the price will drop is when they replace it with a new iPhone. It doesn't matter how far behind the competition it ends up lagging, the price will stay as it is.
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...and people will keep buying it.
Daft really, that a company has a following the pays through the nose for products, which whilst good in their own right, are often quickly superceeded by another product thats cheaper and better in most ways from another company.
 
BoomAM said:
...and people will keep buying it.
Daft really, that a company has a following the pays through the nose for products, which whilst good in their own right, are often quickly superceeded by another product thats cheaper and better in most ways from another company.
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True and it does actually bug me. People buy them because they are fashionable, It's the thought of saying 'I have an iPod' rather than saying 'I have an Chinese MP3 player from Ebay' etc. Ask them why they chose an iPod and they'll say that iPods are the best MP3 players but without any real reason why. I have a friend who loves Apple stuff, I had it out with him a while back, after an hour or so he admitted it was because they made him feel cooler! Maybe he watched to many of those Apple vs PC adverts in the Cinema :)

I'm vented!
 
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