I don't think that the price will drop. To be honest it's more likely it will rise further, because there will be more like me, which simply can't make such a huge invest for a mobile phone. We had already the cost discussion in the past:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...21#post1405521
and don't forget the poll. There were only 20 people ho voted they are willing to pay more than 1000€.