History has taught us that iPhone’s starting price US$499 “isn’t too high for a cellphone,” Brian Lam writes for Gizmodo. “Get in your mental Delorean and remember that little handset called the Motorola RAZR.”
Lam writes, “It was 2004 when the RAZR launched in the US as a high-end design clamshell. It was $600, with a $100 dollar rebate from Cingular. Reviewers complained about the price, but back then the phone was revolutionary enough that no one could pan it. It dialed, like any other phone, and did basic text messaging, and more. But it was just a thin, beautiful design ahead of it’s time. And it sold… Within 2 years, it shipped its 50 millionth phone worldwide.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “DMRDave” for the heads up.]
I love the smell of ChrissyOne in the afternoon.
Chrissy
Well put, although you forgot the “iPhone doesn’t care about black people” headline….
@C1
…sooo…are you are saying the iPhone will have an impact?
@ TT
You’re right. I forgot about iPhone’s horrible retroactive effects on hurricane Katrina. Those who lost their home in Ivan and Andrew better have been warned to be watching out.
@ Buster
No. The iPhone does not represent any innovative or disruptive technologies.
Don’t touch it or look at it. And don’t feed it after midnight.
Exactly. Even Camille survivers should worry.
“There’s a storm a comin’ …”
I hate my RAZR. HATE my RAZR.
I would go so far to say that it is the WORST designed user interface on any product I have ever used. Period.
If u remember, The old Startac cell that Moto had? When it was released their were two versions.
One cost $800.00 and the other was $1500.00 and the $800.00 version didn’t even have vibrate mode.
Both had eight character LCDs, monochrome and held one hundred phone #’s
It was a phone and a phone only, size was it’s only advantage.
Re: Motorola StarTAC
We’ve come a long way in 11 years.
iPhone may stick to certain types of skin. Don’t taunt iPhone.
Apple will bleed the two models for a while longer than people anticipate.
1. The initial rush of people buying the iPhone should carry through to the fall.
2. Apple will deliver the “Buy a Mac and get a free iPod nano, or $100 off an iPhone”
3. Christmas end of year purchases will continue to move iPhones.
By years end, Apple will have sold some 6 million iPhones.
4. At MWSF, count on Apple delivering a new model iPhone lineup:
– $599 16 GB of RAM and GPS software
– $499 12 GB of RAM and GPS software
– $399 8 GB of RAM and GPS software
The GPS chip set is in there (as it is on most cell phones), it just needs to be activated via software update on existing iPhones, and will be standard on new iPhones.
Apple is not going to go soft on storage. The new iPods in the fall, coupled with iPhone and the MacBook Pro “thin” will combine to give Apple economies of scale with memory purchasing no one will be able to touch – not even close.
This iPhone lineup will run until fall 2008, as a “nano-like” iPhone will make its debut in the fall of 2008 as well. The iPhone “nano” will spark the mainstream buyer to ditch their iPod and upgrade to the iPhone “nano” and will run $199 and $299 respectively.
As world-wide carrier connections are setup, Apple will be in the “tornado” stage of the iPhone line and sales will start moving into the 8 – 12 million range per quarter…
Apple will finally deliver a “shuffle-like” iPhone, which will run $99, and include chat, email, and phone, but that is about it, and will not be touch-screen.
Will you buy your boyfriend one?
“And Motorola’s bullshit “RAZR2″ will probably come out later this year around the same price.”
Except that 3xx 3g RAZRs are currently free to switchers. Will the iPhone match that price?