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To me, the iPhone is terribly overrated and incredibly overpriced as a locked down phone. It certainly is a beautiful product but without GPS, high speed data, (HSDPA or 3G), I just don't see how they can lock you to a provider AND charge such a high price. It's downright loony. This coupled with a proprietery OS, it just seems lackluster after the initial glaze of oooh's and ahh's from the first photos of this gorgeous device.

The saving grace? People who already use iTunes to support their music collection already don't care if they are locked into a contract/provider, presumably, so it should sell reasonably well with people in the video iPod crowd. But what percentage of iPod owners is that?

Of course, again, it is a remarkably beautiful device, but really? $600 for an 8GB video iPod? To me, 8GB's for that price, without the option of a storage slot to beef it up, it just doesn't quite do it. I will be quite suprised, (pleasantly), if it takes off beyond the early adopter crowd. What price would be reasonable? It really appears to be about $200 overpriced, precisely due to the fact that it is a locked phone. I'd really consider one for $400, but given what is already available for $600 in an unlocked phone, the iPhone doesn't come close to competing, at least to me.

I'm probably wrong, at least I hope I am, but certainly, we'll all know more by June. ;)
DPReview.com has more on this, giving a £399.99 pricetag and availability of around the end of April.
PDADB.net reports the release as June 2007, FWIW.

http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=733

-Jeff
I'd be curious how many of the XBox360 HDDVD add-on drives have been sold.
Looks like they may yet still have some trouble. See the article here:

http://www.geeknewscentral.com/archives/006410.html
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I own an iPhone 3G and I'm looking for a decent speaker / alarm clock for it. I am going to listen music in a mid-sized room, so I want nice quality speakers with solid bass. I also want to use it as an alarm clock, so it would be great if there is such a feature. The price can be low-mid to mid-high range. I was looking at the Klipsch iGroove SXT; it's powerful, slick and the reviews are good, but it doesn't have an alarm clock feature. It's no deal breaker if I can set it up from the iPhone, but I'm not sure. Thanks!"
 

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