Today at WWDC 2008, Apple bad boy Steve Jobs dropped the bomb everyone has been expecting: Apple has slated to ship the new faster data-pushing 3G-capable iPhone, and at a mind-boggling low price! You’ll be able to pick up one of these newer, better iPhones for only $199 for the 8 gig model, and $299 for the 16 gig model.
That’s nearly $200 cheaper than existing units were sold for at retail!
The new second-generation iPhone will ship July 11th in over 22 countries, with a myriad of improvements including: better standby battery life, the ability to switch between 2G and 3G to save battery, a sleeker design, metal buttons, a headphone jack that is flush to the casing, and models now available in black or white.
Those of you who were waiting for a second-generation product, here it is! Already own an iPhone? You’re probably one of the people who paid the early adopters tax. Will you sell your old iPhone to get a new one? Let us know in the comments.
I am so looking forward to getting my next gadget and this may be the one!
This one will definitely break all the previous sales record . Thats very cheap man :D
I don’t get it.. you get it cheaper but then you get a better battery life, etc? :|
What will the buyers of the first generation say?
Apple has a bad reputation for being “proprietary”. Their products don’t play well with other protocols. Thankfully, 3rd party vendors (producers of radios, speakers, accessories, etc) have SO FAR supported the ipod/phone craze with compatible accessories. Otherwise, we’d have to buy everything from Apple. And apple is like AOL or YAHOO! They install things you don’t want in places you don’t want them and then make it nearly impossible to uninstall them (speaking mostly of i-tunes and quicktime): But, seems relevant if / when iPhones need connecting to Windows operating systems (especially) but also if you want to download tunes, GPS, maps, email, search results, etc (most likely you’ll have to get them from the Apple i-tunes / GPS / maps/ email / search engine / etc. store)? The generic iPods (for example) are every bit as good as the name-brand … and work with a wider range of accessories.
i will buy that new iPhone because have much more great feature.
the 200$ price cut is an illusion, they raised the price of the monthly plan $10.00 a month, minimum 2 year contract:
24 x $10 = 240.00
actually you pay 40.00 more over the two years, but its stretched out, for me its worth it to not have to pony up $400 on the day i get the phone, but its not a discount, just a loan
@Mck: Actually, it is a price cut. AT&T is just subsidizing the discount from Apple for the Hardware. Which means if you buy one somewhere at cost and then unlock it and use it on another provider, you’ve just kept AT&T from making the profits they were expecting in return for their price cut.
Also, you’re not paying more over 2 years: your logic is flawed. If you were getting the same device and the same level of service, it’d be one thing. But considering the first iPhone debuted at over $600, and this phone is 3G – a whole lot faster and provides for more bandwidth-hungry apps, it’s understandable you’d pay $10 a month more for a 3G plan than a 2G, and the price point makes it more consumable.
It remains that the device is still cheaper, even if the service increased in price to account for the large-scale onslaught of 3G network users.