I like the iPhone. I think it's a very cool piece of technology and I'd love to own one. Vodafone's initial $199 iPhone offering exacts a heavy premium for the low acquisition price.
To get the iPhone for $199, you're looking at being on a $250 / month plan (+ GST?) for two years.
I'm sure there will be takers, I just won't be one of them. Paying $3000 a year for a cell phone / cool toy is far more than the fun stuff in the iPhone is worth......to me.
Much more reasonable is buying an iPhone outright for $549 (8GB version) or $699 (16GB version) and then sign up for the $80 / month plan (presumably plus GST) with 250MB of data. That isn't much data, but at 10 cents / additional MB, it won't hurt much more ($25 + GST) even if you used double the data quota....which still isn't much, especially in a WiFi context where you can use 30MB-50MB in barely an hour.
My $128 Vodafone 715 on a pre-pay plan is costing me about $80 / month, so I'd be better off buying the $549 iPhone and going onto the basic plan. That also frees me from any long term commitments with respect to the phone or the provider. I like to keep my options open. This is an area where things change rapidly.
Having said that....am I REALLY paying $1000 / year for my current "cheap" cell phone? Looks like I am.
I wonder if I really need it....or need to use it differently. That's more money than I'd like to think I spend on my cheap phone.
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