Here’s an interesting post from the Dial-a-Phone chaps last month.
Link: » iPhone is too expensive!Dial-a-Phone
We would estimate that if the iPhone were to be released now it would be available free on a £35 a month tariff, with no additional discount.
Now, the Dial-a-Phone chaps know a thing or two about mobile handsets, subsidies and the like here in the UK so I imagine that their comments can be taken as reasonably accurate.
And working on that basis, an iPhone for £35/month… geez, it would sell like hotcakes. No doubt the Dial-a-Phone chaps are keeping their eyes on iPhone news — they’re well known as a good place to go to get yourself a top quality device on a decent contract. My brother got the old Nokia N90 from them on o2 ages ago.
Not a chance it will be free. Not. A. Chance.
AGREE… Apple have already stated the RSP for the iPhone, and APPLE selling something for FREE… The only thing I can see will be the Ipod once this phone hits the shelves and dents the mobile industries usual players