[DM-MUG] iPHone sighting in Beijing

[Victoria L. Herring]

>Interestingly, the cost of the device seems to be what makes people 
>so passionate about it. If you buy the $39 phone no one complains 
>about not being able to install software on it or use it with 
>another carrier. But at an order of magnitude more expensive, people 
>expect more.

Frankly, for what it does the price is cheap.  Not for everyone 
certainly, but for the money you get:  calendar, contact info, iPod 
for music and video, safari browsing, password holder [$10 extra for 
that shareware program], entertainment, mail checking [without 
lugging a laptop], maps and directions, ....I could go on.  It's not 
a perfect machine and not for everyone, but it has been great for me 
and well worth the $$ expended.  I wouldn't expect anything of a $39 
phone.  I expect more of this one, and have gotten that and more.
-- 
Victoria L. Herring, Attorney in Des Moines, Iowa -  Civil rights, 
Discrimination & Employment Law, http://www.herringlaw.com.  Ph. 
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