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Meh, if they are cutting the prices that dramatically that fast, I will give it another 10-12 weeks and pick one up when they are $200 or less. It's been cracked/hacked, I don't have to be an AT&T slave to use it.
 
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Meanwhile, gadget enthusiasts who snapped up the ballyhooed iPhone before Wednesday are coping with a bitter aftertaste now that it is $200 cheaper within 10 weeks of its introduction.
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Haha! Dumbasses.

The bitching isn't about cash, it's about status. People who are willing and able to spend that kind of money on something like this aren't gonna be hurting for that $200. They're upset because now that more people will be able to afford its still somewhat hefty price tag. I think it's funny that these people's sense of self-worth is so heavily tied to owning something few others do.
 
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Waaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!

I'm pissed off because I over paid to be one of the first to have the new gadget not thinking that like most technology, prices drop ridiculously fast.... Cry me a river and then use your iPhone to give me turn-by-turn directions to the boat ramp....

SAN JOSE, California (AP) -- A New York woman is so angry at Apple Inc. for lopping $200 off the price of the iPhone that she's filed a lawsuit seeking $1 million in damages.
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Apple lowered the iPhone's price on September 5 and also said it would stop selling the 4-gigabyte model.


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Dongmei Li of Queens, New York, claimed the company violated price discrimination laws when it slashed the price of the 8-gigabyte iPhone by a third, from $599 to $399, within two months of the gadget's June debut.
Apple lowered the iPhone's price on September 5 and also said it would stop selling the $499 4-gigabyte model. Hundreds of early customers who paid full price didn't expect a reduction so soon and complained.
Apple issued an apology the next day. Under its return policy, Apple refunded the $200 difference for those who bought the phone within 14 days of the reduction. And in a move to make peace with those who purchased the higher-priced phone before that period, the company offered a $100 credit at Apple stores.
According to Li's lawsuit, filed on September 24 in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, the price reduction injured early purchasers like herself because they cannot resell the product for the same price as those who bought the cell phone following the price cut.
Li purchased a 4GB iPhone for $499 and alleged that owners of the 4GB model were given less favorable terms than those who bought the 8GB model at the premium price, according to the lawsuit.
Apple spokeswoman Susan Lundgren declined to comment, citing the company's policy to not discuss pending litigation.
The lawsuit also named AT&T Inc., the exclusive carrier in the U.S. for the iPhone, and alleged the two companies' required two-year service contract for the iPhone constituted unfair business practices.
Mark Siegel, an AT&T spokesman, declined to comment, saying he had not yet seen the lawsuit. E-mail to a friend
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This iPhone, with enterprise support out of the box, GPS, and 3rd party apps, looks like it's got some serious teeth to it. $199 is not a bad price at all, although I hear the data plan is $30 extra a month (as opposed to $20 extra for the old EDGE iPhone).

They went right at Windows Mobile by circumventing running applications in the background by making a push protocol for all 3rd party apps (not just core services like email and calendar items). So you don't have to run applications in the background all the time, constantly pulling data through your wireless connection and draining your battery. Instead, a tiny packet of data is sent to your iPhone, which launches the appropriate app, and you go from there.

My Blackberry never really got bogged down with applications running in the background, though. Then again, my Blackberry looks like a clunky, ugly POS next to an iPhone.
 
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I just picked up the Pantech Duo. Gotta say it's a pretty sweet little phone being that I hadnt heard of it. Runs like a champ, awesome features, great keyboard, etc.

I will never buy anything Apple, even if they drop the price to free :biggrin:
 
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Huge iPhone Security Flaw Puts All Private Information at Risk

There's a huge security problem in the latest iPhone 2.0.2: if you have your JesusPhone password protected, using a very simple trick gives anyone full access to your cellphone private information in Mail, SMS, Contacts, and even Safari. The two-step trick is even simpler to the one used in the past to gain access to the phone to install unlocking cards or jailbreak. Fortunately, there's a way to avoid this obvious security breach until Apple fixes it.

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