After my previous comparison of total cost of ownership of Consumer Android phones against the iPhone showing that the iPhone worked out cheaper I thought I should revisit it given the new iPhone release.
In the UK O2 have *raised* the cost of getting a 16GB iPhone (the 16GB 3GS costs 50 GBP more than they charged for a 16GB 3G) and kept the cost of the lowest end model the same, so although it's still cheaper if you look at only the 8GB version, if you look at the 3GS version of the iPhone it's now cheaper to get an Android device. (I could go on about how tethering an iPhone on O2 in the UK is actually worse value for money than getting a separate mobile broadband dongle from them, but that's getting waaayy off topic and I'm doing that to death on Twitter under a #O2iPhoneRipOff tag). So it looks like Android just got a competitive helping hand from the UKs iPhone carrier even though they don't have any Android devices in their line-up nor are there any rumours about they selling one. Al. -- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
