>>I'm about to renew my contract for my cell phone and change for an I-Phone. There's an interesting deal over here on it.
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>>Usually 30$ per month gets you 500 meg of transfer. Additional 30$ gets you 1 gig
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>>Now the additional 30$ will get you from 500 meg to 6 gig.
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>>Deal ends today but there's a serious shortage of I-Phone over here for my cell company. But it's not that bad for me because they added to my info that I want to get it but because of the shortage I can't. So because of that I'll be able to get it with the special 6 gig rate.
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>>Now the big question. Is there something really better than the I-Phone on the market. I mean IT wise and also considering the deal I can get?
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>>A friend told me to look at the "Palm Pre". Looks nice but I'm not sure that it would be better than the I-Phone.
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>>Suggestions?
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>I looked at some alternatives, but couldn't decide on one myself. Sometimes it boils down to the service plan your provider will offer (you can save $ over the period of the contract). There are a lot of new cool phones out there, but some have features I'm not interested in, and some don't have the keypads I want. You might want to read this article to see the current competition:
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>http://www.bizmology.com/2009/06/24/smartphones-abound-giving-the-iphone-competition/
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>Snippet:
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>The hot new challenger is the Pre smartphone made by Palm, exclusively available from Sprint. It’s about $200, so it’s comparably priced with the lower-end iPhone 3GS.
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>Apple’s strongest competitor in the smartphone segment remains Research In Motion with its BlackBerry models. The BlackBerry Storm is the latest and greatest in the line; it’s selling for about $150.
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>The G1, the “Google phone,” is a strong seller for T-Mobile. Made by HTC and running Google’s Android mobile device software, the G1 is the vanguard of Android-based products and also is priced at $150. T-Mobile is about to launch its second Google phone made by HTC, called the myTouch, which will sell for $199 (that seems to be a popular pricepoint in this market!).
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>Nokia, the world’s largest maker of wireless handsets, isn’t ceding the smartphone market to Apple and RIM, rolling out its N97 touchscreen phone this month. It’s priced around $699, making it the most expensive model out there at the moment.
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Thanks Tc.