Well for this price...I know where Apple can stick their iPhone.

windeath · **27th June 2007, 02:17 PM**

http://www.australianit.news.com.au/...013040,00.html

hahahahaha All that for a bl@@dy phone.

gregc182 · **27th June 2007, 02:21 PM**

Might be the wrong link Windeath

Akuma · **27th June 2007, 02:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by windeath

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/g...cname=bph03886

hahahahaha All that for a bl@@dy phone.

Huh?

I'm sorry, are you having a stroke?

windeath · **27th June 2007, 02:28 PM**

Try it now....whoops

supafly · **27th June 2007, 02:32 PM**

Im not interested in it really, What would like is just the Ipod part of it

widescreen, 30gb (to bad it only has 4 or 8), touch screen.

philzgr8 · **27th June 2007, 02:36 PM**

Actually if you read it carefully it isn't particularly expensive at all. Take out the cost of the phone plan and you're left with US$500 - $600. Compare that with the O2 Atom for instance and it happens to stack up quite competitively. In fact it's dead set cheap at little more than half the price. That article is typical journalistic grandstanding. Imagine suggesting the cost of the plan has anything to do with the cost of the phone. Even if you look at the plan cost at around US$700 p/a. it's not exactly over the top. Why not change the headline to say you might have to pay $100,000 and simply embed the math on how many years of phone plan you get in the article... hogwash!

windeath · **27th June 2007, 02:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by supafly

Im not interested in it really, What would like is just the Ipod part of it

widescreen, 30gb (to bad it only has 4 or 8), touch screen.

And think...you accidentally drop it, then kick it, it falls into water then gets run over by a car. $3500 literally pi$$ed against a wall.

windeath · **27th June 2007, 02:40 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by philzgr8

Actually if you read it carefully it isn't particularly expensive at all. Take out the cost of the phone plan and you're left with US$500 - $600. Compare that with the O2 Atom for instance and it happens to stack up quite competitively. That article is typical journalistic grandstanding. Imagine suggesting the cost of the plan has anything to do with the cost of the phone. Even if you look at the plan cost at around US$700 p/a. it's not exactly over the top. Why not change the headline to say you might have to pay $100,000 and simply embed the math on how many years of phone plan you get in the article... hogwash!

Sorry Phil...for those prices I'd want it to have a mouth and be able to provide "extracurricular activities".

Akuma · **27th June 2007, 02:41 PM**

None of that is really news. The handset price and 2 yr contract has been known since January. It's a high end smart phone, the service was never going to be cheap especially with unlimited data. If you priced a high end smart phone here with a comparable phone plan and decent data limit the price wouldn't be too different.

philzgr8 · **27th June 2007, 02:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by windeath

Sorry Phil...for those prices I'd want it to have a mouth and be able to provide "extracurricular activities".

Well I'd agree that for the average user AUD$700 might be at the higher end but I paid nearly $1300 for mine. Put together the cost of a phone and a ipod and add a touchscreen and I really can't see what all the fuss is about.