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

[Russell Horn <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Jonathan King wrote:
> 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. 

yes, I think that's where the US version the E62 came from, it was 
designed for the US networks, and dropped both WIFI and VOIP.

Unfortunately a couple of UK networks have caught on and disabled the 
VoIP on the Nokia N95.
> Is the GPS included on the base model? 
>   
I think I mentioned I use a bluetooth GPS adapter. Costs about $60 on ebay.
> So what does a voice + data plan run over on the other side of the pond?
>   
It's hard to compare. Remember in the UK the calling party pays for 
everything, so receiving a call on your mobile doen't cost you anything 
by way of cash or minutes. On the other hand our mobiles get their own 
code starting 07 and calls to these numbers vary up to about 50c/minute 
at peak times and much cheaper in the evenings and at weekends. And our 
evenings actually start before night-time at 6 or 7 o'clock.

About $60 / month will get you 450 minutes of outbound calls with 
T-Mobile and 3GB of Data.
> 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.
>   
I like the browser because it doesn't reformat the page at all - you see 
it like you expect. They've designed it so the main body column on 
almost every site I've visited
fits the width of the screen, so reading a site is easy.

The killer feature for me is the VoIP though. Instead of paying 
$2/minute roaming charges to call the UK from the US, if I'm in range of 
an access point it's 2c/minute. Likewise, when I'm in the UK, my wife 
can call the VoIP number rather than paying the high costs for calling a 
UK mobile from the US. You can see why this stuff has the networks 
worried. They make huge sums from business travellers who spend most 
their time travelling in hotels, offices and airports that all have WIFI.

Russell.

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