It's all smoke and mirrors. The price isn't cut in half at all because you have to pay $10 more a month. Thats $240 more without tax just for the contract.

Activation is also now done at the carrier store, not at home, and Apple aren't selling them online, just at the stores (first one opens in Sydney next month). I think that it's going to get harder to get an unlocked phone.

My guess? $200. On a $69 cap plan for 24 months. Not including data.

Knowing Apple, they'll remove some feature that makes 3G worthwhile, on the claim that nobody uses it or somesuch...

Does Voda prepaid have data available?

Does any 3G prepaid have data available?

This phone really needs data. And what I said before aside, I think that they will offer on around a $70 cap, but include about 500MB of data, which is plenty. That would equate in value to similar products.

Prices are slowly coming down though (very fucking slowly).

You do pay more for calls on prepaid, usually.

2mp camera is fine for a camera phone, you're not going to get much better real res out of a camera that tiny anyway.

6. What does all this mean for the iPod Touch?
Until now, the iPod Touch has delivered all the goodness of the iPhone (except the phone part) for less money. But things look dicey for the Touch in its current form at its current price point: It doesn't have the iPhone 3G's GPS, and the 8GB and 16GB variants now cost $100 more apiece than their iPhone counterparts. If you're happy with your current phone and have no desire to lock yourself into a pricey two-year voice and data contract to score an iPhone, you might still be interested in a Touch, I guess. But it's hard to imagine that it will stay popular at its current price--and since Jobs didn't mention a price cut today, I wonder if its days are numbered.