Picture courtesy of Apple
Just this afternoon, my friends and I went to SM Manila and we walk past the Globe Telecom outlet, and I noticed that they have sign saying '6 days to go', and there's an iPhone on it. If I am not mistaken, that was a countdown for the release of the iPhone 3g here in the Philippines. So if it is 6 more days from today, August 16, 2008, then the release of the iPhone is on August 22, 2008(if my computation is right).
After I got home, I immediately checked one of the leading tech blogs in the Philippines, yugatech(I am also a subscriber of this blog), and I saw that the price of of iPhone 3G here in the Philippines is a whopping Php 37,599 for the 8GB and Php 43,799 for the 16GB. Wow that's a lot of money! And that price has already been dropped down from its original price.
My friends had a cliche in our group whenever we saw an expensive item, "Mahal lang yan kung wala kang pera(It is only expensive if you do not have money)". Well, I guess it is true. If you got lots of money, then that price would be cheap for you. But for me, I guess I have to earn P100k a month first before I bought an item as expensive as that. =]
I know that the price of the iPhone 3G will decrease in due time. It is still expensive today because it is still a hot item. If the price of the iPhone is really that low, then we'll see if I can buy one. =p
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I like the concept of the iphone... but i have many complains about it... like it doesnt make sense that you cant copy/paste text or even photos... I turned off the auto-correction feature which sucks..
Another big turn-off of the iphone is the incapacity to run several appz at the same time.. you can't load a msn clone appz while you go surf on the buggy safari.. it's one application at a time :( :( I think that ANY Os would work just as fast as the iphone if it'd allow just one appz at once... So it doesnt make impressed of "osx" at all.. when you compare with windows devices where you can chat on msn while playing with the gps and surf the web and so on...
You can't use your iphone's connection on your laptop (which you can do from most Windows device) ..
I'm also not impressed by the battery.. used to be better on the v2.. even after turning off blue, wifi, 3g and brightness... it justs doesnt last long
your link was added bro, thanks for the visit,
- gusher
@riverbelle - Thanks for informing me and the readers of this blog. But I guess here in the Philippines, people don't care about the features of this new iPhone. Having an iPhone here is a status symbol, because not all can afford an iPhone, including me. Unlike in the US or Europe or other first world countries. =]
@gusher - thanks a lot bro!
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Having an iPhone here is a status symbol, because not all can afford an iPhone