b5media.com

Advertise with us

Enjoying this blog? Check out the rest of the Technology Channel Subscribe to this Feed

Cellphone9 : Mobile Phones, 3G, Telco Industry, Cellular Networks, Phone Reviews

August 7th, 2008

Dear Product Managers: Stop comparing your product with the iPhone!

I attended a press conference a few days ago for a high end smartphone brand. Among us were some tech bloggers, IT journalists and a number of lifestyle editors from the glossies. The product manager enjoyed talking about his new baby - one of the top of the line smartphones that recently hit the market. […]

By Jayvee -- 5 comments

June 12th, 2008

iPhone 3G costs $773 and $881 with Open Line in Europe

Telcos are doing some huge subsidies. Apparently the $199 price for the iPhone 3G is a huge mask over its real price. Europe has just announced their pricing and with an iPhone-only package out of the box, this will cost USD $773 for the 8GB model and $881 for the 16GB model. Wowzers. OK so […]

By Jayvee -- 0 comments

June 9th, 2008

What does a sub $200.00 iPhone do to the phone industry?

I’m excited. Really excited. Not much for the new 3G iPhone features, of the fact that you can now sync it over .Mac (renamed to MobileMe). What I’m excited about is competition. Today, Apple announced the new prices for the iPhone 3G: $199 for the 8GB model and $299 for the 16GB upgrade. With Windows […]

By Jayvee -- 9 comments

June 9th, 2008

iPhone 3G Announced at WWDC, 8GB priced at only $199.00

UPDATE: The Apple store is back up with the iPhone 3G being sold

Okay. It really isn’t a big secret anymore, and this was something everybody expected. Apple is capitalizing on 3G data delivery for their new services including GPS and MobileMe, the latter being the rebranded name for .Mac, adding functions such as syncing over […]

By Jayvee -- 0 comments