We’re just over a week away from the launch of the iPhone 3G, and everyone is getting excited. Except, of course, for those who don’t qualify for an upgrade, or those who want to purchase one without extending their contract (or, of course, want to buy one without a contract, period). Pricing has been revealed, and it’s quite steep — as you would expect from a high-end cell phone. AT&T customers who don’t qualify for an upgrade will face a $399 price tag for the 8 GB model, or $499 for the 16 gigger. Those who don’t want to extend their contract will be looking at $599 and $699. Upgrading customers will have to pay an $18 activation fee, which is total crap. New customers will have a fee double that. For the cherry on top, voice and data plans start at $69.99 and run up to $129.99. Well, at least you won’t have back problems from sitting on a fat wallet.
Looks like UTStarcom won’t be in the mobile business anymore. The company is divesting their handset business in a sell-off for $240 million. The new company, Personal Communications Devices, will feature many UTStarcom mobile execs.
Yesterday, we talked about the HTC Touch pro. Now we find out that it might be headed for CDMA carriers. Brilliant. HTC is doing a knock-up job of creating and hyping some quality PDAs.
Are you someone who was clamoring for a messaging plan to go along with Alltel’s My Circle? You’re in luck. They’ve added two bundles which both give you unlimited texting and picture messaging to your circle. The $7.99 plan gives you 400 messages to people outside your circle, and the $12.99 plan gives you 1,000. Something tells me it’ll be tough to go over the $12.99 plan.
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