Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Apple just dropped the price of the iPhone by $200

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 9/5/07, Russell Horn <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> Mike Miller wrote:
> >> On the other hand, anybody who wants to buy a smart phone has got to
> >> be liking this, because now you can expect price cuts on everything
> >> else on the market.
>
> They still have a way to go before they get me, as I still run a UK
> phone. My Nokia E61 does 3G, has WIFI and can do VoIP natively (you get
> to use your phone contacts etc - incoming VoIP calls look just like a
> regular call), it has a great web browser, does GPS navigation with
> voice instructions in the car (using an external bluetooth GPS adapter)
> has a querty keyboard and putty for SSHing and if I want it will happily
> play MP3s.
>
> It was free with a one year contract.

Around here the unlocked E61 seems to run just over $300. Most phones
in the US seem to have arbitrary limits placed on them by carriers,
which is unfortunate. Is the GPS included on the base model? I didn't
see it listed here:

http://www.symbian.com/phones/nokia_e61.html

So what does a voice + data plan run over on the other side of the pond?

That said, it's interesting that you say the browser is good because
it's built on Apple's Webkit / Webcore project which itself is based
on Open Source KHTML rendering code. Webkit is apparently now doing
really well in mobile/wireless devices because it works well and the
code base is smaller than something like Gecko.

jking

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