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Originally Posted by Noir
not initially as was said the iphone was a 600 dollar phone it was only in the fall that the iphone price was reduced
also data plan is quite debatable and we would be merely mimicking the ATT v VZW commercials =/
9 dollar difference between unlimited att and unlimited vzw...for bigger network bla bla bla and that still was the case even in 07...
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The 8 GB was $600. The 4GB was not. And they lowered the price 2 months after release, and gave everyone who had already purchased one $100 ($200 if purchased in the last 2 weeks before the price drop).
The data plan is not debatable at all, lol. The iPhone data was $20 for unlimited data with 200 text messages. At the time that was released I was paying $25 for data on Sprint and another $10 for text messaging.
And this was before Verizon purchased Alltel, by the way, so Verizon did not have the biggest data network back then. They were just barely starting to roll out EVDO.
Link to iPhone prices:
http://www.macrumors.com/2007/09/05/...-discontinued/
Link to $100 (and $200) given back to people who paid original price:
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/openiphoneletter/
Link to this all happening only 2 months after original release:
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle2398965.ece
Now, link to Sprint PPC-6700 pricing at the time:
http://www.mobiletechreview.com/Sprint-PPC-6700.htm
Link to original iPhone data plan pricing- you can see in the comments that it also included 200 text messages:
http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/0...d-data-for-30/
Sprint Power Vision (data) pricing at the time:
http://reviews.cnet.com/photo-video-...-31663498.html
Any questions?