Comments on: iPhone Coming June 29th

By: 5 Ways The iPhone Could Hurt Verizon | RIMarkable | The official, unofficial BlackBerry Weblog

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:06:31 +0000

[...] the new iPhone from Apple and AT&T due out June 29th and you may have even seen one of the new iPhone commercials. By all accounts, the iPhone, will be the biggest thing to happen to the U.S. based mobile market [...]

By: mblind

mblind — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:01:42 +0000

Goodbye Blackberry… Hello iPhone

By: Nelson R

Nelson R — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:36:18 +0000

I am in sales and use my BlackBerry all the time but I have to admit that I am very attracted to the iPhone. I carry a BlackBerry and a Razr because I can’t send email while talking on the BlackBerry so I pick up an iPhone in addition to my BlackBerry.

By: BBGuy

BBGuy — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 05:09:30 +0000

How much per month will this thing cost??? The silence is deafening from both parties (Apple/at&t) having not made one PEEP 6 months since it’s introduction.

Voice plan + texting (through the iChat-like bubble interface) + Visual Voicemail + Tons of Data through Safari/Widgets/Google Maps + Push E-Mail Service. If you were to subscribe to all of these services individually on one of at&t’s BlackBerry devices, you’d be paying upwards of $110 a month after taxes.

If you were to get a BlackBerry today, and enable the features Steve Jobs has been demoing and Apple touting the iPhone can do, this is every service you would need to make the phone work as advertised:

$39.99 Cheapest Voice Plan
$29.99 Cheapest Unlimited Push E-Mail/Data Traffic Plan
$19.99 Cheapest Unlimited Messaging Plan (Yes, texting is still charged outside a Blackberry E-Mail Plan or any Data Plan!)
$1.99 for Cingularâ€™s Enhanced Voicemail (larger inbox, longer messages, etc.)

After taxes, that is well over $110 per month for ONE phone! How many high schoolers, college kids, et al. are going to be able to convince Mommy and Daddy to continue to cover THAT bill for them?

By: D Rex

D Rex — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 05:05:48 +0000

We’ll see. I’m skeptical of the “desktop class” browsing experience over EDGE. I think movies (about 1GB each from iTS) will fill that 4GB or 8GB capacity fast causing some frustration. And it doesn’t look like one-handed operation is easy, which may be fine in a commercial, but good luck when you are on a train or driving. And then there’s the price tag.

Mind you there are enough fanboys to buy every unit Apple can make. I own two Macs and I’ve switched carriers to get a phone before, but the iPhone won’t make me leave Verizon. Though I hope it lights a fire under VZW’s ass and gets a CMDA Pearl 2 or Curve in my pocket before the summer is over.

By: Thought

Thought — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 04:50:05 +0000

This phone will capture the imagination of the whole world. It may not have the BB email system, but the average consumer won’t care. I think once people see the phone in person they will even more impressed.

I think the AT&T exec is right: whatever your expectations are regarding the device, they are too low.