"....Schiller said the existing low-end iPhone 3G, with 8 GB of memory, would stay on the market for $99.....", full article here, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525421,00.html.

I think Nokia would benefit by have a larger customer base, if they can crank out some N8x0 with a price tag of $99.

bun

Yeah I read all these developments...

It is smart to get rid of the old stock for such price. Furthermore, this isn't a new scheme. Happens all the time. I saw this happening with Nokia N9x devices too. Problem was there, that new device wasn't always better.

One thing which gives me a bad feeling in my tummy is that the price difference is the number of GB the device has. WTF. As if that differentiates quality? What if it just had a (micro)SD slot? It isn't 8 GB of memory though. It is 8 GB flash. In that regard I much better prefer Nokia N97 (and Nokia in general) approach.

I am NOT talking about the iphone per se, or maybe I am, I am kind of marvel at the price tag $99, able to snatch something called iphone, and how is my honey, or anybody's honey, to justify a Nokia $399 N810 Wimax? I know, there is in deed a time difference. "Honey, why dont we just get an iphone, and we can get 4 of them, and if it breaks, you can do that 4 X :-) ..." What I refer to is this good or bad for the upcoming Nokia,...Rover?

bun

$99 is actually a good price that I could buy one... Where can I get one? I do not want a contract... just the phone since I already have a service from other provider.

Oh wait... You can't buy that without contract? Never mind then...

And I thought the price was $99...I know too good to be true.

It'll make no difference to the people here; since the iPhone is shunned like some type of leprosy... however it does undercut the living daylights out of a lot of Nokia offerings right now.

As it stands, I'm an owner of an iPhone 3G; but you'll never hear me say that it's better than anything else out there because it's not. There's so much room for improvement that it's sick. But it does what I want - besides be a phone - but I can't stand that I can't upgrade the memory. However, most consumers don't even care about that.

Too bad I missed when the Nokia N93i went on clearance as such since it's the last Nokia cell that I liked.

This last release though, does give Nokia enough time to gain some ground. I hope they take advantage... and not release a half-assed Maemo phone.

I've pretty much given up on the Nokia side (I'm not interested in a Maemo phone, I'd like a Maemo Tablet). So unless Nokia manages to change my opinions of the n900 it's an Android phone for me. And if that fails it's an iPhone.

Considering the current prices on the N810, if it was sold on contract, it would be likely 1$. Then you could crash 99 N810s for one iPhone. Or maybe that calculation thingy of yours was a bit bogus

$99 is a good buy, but with some of the Moblin, Maemo, Android and other FOSS based smart phones due out soon, why bother? It might be a good hold over for the time being, but in the end, the new FOSS phones are gonna smack down Apple so hard it'll leave them seeing stars for years. After that, the only reason to keep an iPhone will be because you're a mac fanboy.

Oh well, I NEVER know you have to buy a phone contract. Rat!

bun

Well, here's the kicker. Over in Europe they have laws that say that the cellular providers can't bundle the phone with the plan (and in some cases they can't lock you into a contract either). The phone has to be sold separately from the provider as they're not allowed to sell phones. They can only set the requirements for their network, and then leave it up to the phone makers to abide by those requirements. That's why you have places like "car phone warehouse" in Britain.

And if it works so well over there, in fact it works 10x's better than our system here in the US, then why won't anybody try to force this to happen? Oh right, the cell companies are ripping people off, and they don't want to stop doing that. Plus they might actually be forced to compete! Oh wow, what a novel idea, and completely insane as far as the cellular providers are concerned.