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Starting july 11th, scheduled release of the new iPhone american’s could choose to go without a contract at a price. The no contract price of the iPhone 3G will cost around 700$.
I can see iPhone sales reving up on sites like ebay .
The mystery behind why the new iPhone is so cheap may be solved, with market researcher iSuppli saying it costs just US$173 to make.
Apple caused a stir earlier this month when it launched the new 3G (third generation mobile telecommunications) iPhone with a $199 price tag. Similar products from rivals cost much more. Taiwan’s High Tech Computer (HTC), for example, has priced the Touch Diamond at NT$23,900 (US$785) for its home market, while Nokia estimates its new N96 smartphone will retail for €550 (US$855).
All three handsets are due on store shelves soon.
There are two main reasons Apple can charge so little for the new iPhone, iSuppli said Tuesday. First, mobile phone service providers will subsidize the handsets by paying Apple about US$300 per unit, iSuppli estimates. The other reason is the low cost of materials going into the handset.
Apple did such a good job choosing components for the new 3G iPhone that it costs less to make than the old version, despite significant improvements, iSuppli said. The old iPhone cost $226 to make and did not include 3G nor GPS (global positioning system). Yet Apple sold the original iPhone for $499 initially. More—>
When we first had the war between Betamax and VHS, it was the porn business that backed VHS and helped it win that war years ago. Now that Steve Jobs has delivered the 3G iPhone and with the promise of much faster data speeds, Apple is surely to sell many more iPhones and they will not be the only one making money from the 3G iPhone.
The porn sites will want their share of money from the iPhone and more specifically the 3G versions thanks to better video playback over the 3G networks. In 2007 we heard about iPlayboy and how Hugh Hefner wanted to cash in on the Apple iPhone success with some software that was downloadable from Playboy.com and included a Playboy Cyber Girl video, Playmate photos, wallpapers and other stuff customized for the Apple iPhone.
Now in 2008 with the 3G iPhone coming to 22 countries on July 11, the current trend is showing a sharp increase this year for iPhone porn and the mobile porn businesses know this and are aiming to fill that need. With Google earlier this year revealing the iPhone as the most popular phone using Google, the iPhone is one mobile device that can bring massive money streams to porn businesses and also one fact that Apple is happy to keep quiet about for obvious reasons. More—>
In his keynote address to open Apple‘s Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) on Monday, Steve Jobs officially announced the iPhone 3G. Perhaps the most important revelation was the price, which at $199 for the entry level (8GB) model is half the original’s current $399 pricetag. He indicated that the price was based on research where consumers who have so far passed on the iPhone said cost was the biggest barrier.
Not surprisingly he didn’t talk about his previous prediction of 10 million iPhones sold by the end of 2008. Why is that significant? Maybe because at the current (pre-iPhone 3G) prices it appears unlikely to happen. In fact despite “selling out some number of weeks ago,” Jobs said only 6 million have been sold in the approximately 11 months since the initial launch on June 29 of last year. More —>