I think what Ian is trying to say is that contract or not, you still have to pay for your phone service and data service. So if you spend US$50/mo on a data plan, it does come out to be more expensive with the FreeRunner if and *only if* you plan to use the phone for two years. if you plan on ditching it in a year, then the FreeRunner is much cheaper (you have that contract buy out fee). <br>
<br>Thankfully, I have a pay as go SIM card that allows me to use GPRS. I pay about 10 Euros (US$15) a month with my current total usage (voice and data). Somehow I see that going way up when I get the FreeRunner just with the data I'll be using. I pay roughly 4 Euro Cents per 10kb. In this case, the iPhone is way more expensive than an iPhone.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Dave O'Connor <<a href="mailto:doc@skynet.ie">doc@skynet.ie</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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You've forgotten about the extra grand and a half in contract charges.<br>
(that's just in the US, I hate to think what they'll be like here in<br>
Canada).<br>
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Seems inexpensive to me :)<br>
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On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Jorge . wrote:<br>
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> I dont pretend to start a flamewar of "FreeRunner vs iPhone". Everyone knows their advantages and disadvantages and at least for me the main reason to buy an openmoko is the freedom.<br>
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> But the new iPhone 3G price was announced, and the 8 Gigas version will cost only $199 USD and it automatically makes the OpenMoko phone expensive, because they have similar characteristics... this could discourage many possible buyers, for purely economical reasons.<br>
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> I dont know if the FreeRunner price can be changed at this moment, but now the FreeRunner is less competitive than the iPhone in terms of price.<br>
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