http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/24/softbanks-iphone-pricing-roughly-in-line-with-atandts/ Engadget Mobile Comments for SoftBank's iPhone pricing roughly in line with AT&T's http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/24/softbanks-iphone-pricing-roughly-in-line-with-atandts/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/24/softbanks-iphone-pricing-roughly-in-line-with-atandts/it's an approach you guys at engadget use WAY too much]]>Jun 24th 2008 8:37PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/24/softbanks-iphone-pricing-roughly-in-line-with-atandts/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/24/softbanks-iphone-pricing-roughly-in-line-with-atandts/
I can get the Panasonic 920P with a 3.0 inch wide screen 800x400 resolution, TV, AV out and a 5megapixel camera, e-wallet (for purchasing stuff just by holding your phone up to a machine) etc for about $15 a month and plus another $10 for regular phone call service. Lets see....$25 a month for two years...that's about $600 for the phone and two years service. I get the Iphone and I have to pay what is it...about $75 bucks a month in phone charges plus the cost of the phone...that works out to be somewhere north of $2000 over 2 years. Are they freaking nuts?

Maybe in another country but given the level of tech here for phones I can see the market being 'really' small. ]]>Jun 24th 2008 8:45PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/24/softbanks-iphone-pricing-roughly-in-line-with-atandts/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/24/softbanks-iphone-pricing-roughly-in-line-with-atandts/
All you get is free softbank mobile2mobile (but not between 9:00pm and 1:00am) and free text to other SoftBank users. BTW Softbank is the smallest of the big three Japanese carriers.

]]>Jun 24th 2008 11:35PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/24/softbanks-iphone-pricing-roughly-in-line-with-atandts/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/24/softbanks-iphone-pricing-roughly-in-line-with-atandts/Makes you wonder why AAPL chose SoftPants?
...do we know how much AAPL makes from them on each handset?]]>Jun 25th 2008 12:34PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/24/softbanks-iphone-pricing-roughly-in-line-with-atandts/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/24/softbanks-iphone-pricing-roughly-in-line-with-atandts/I've tried twice now, to get the iPhone, but both times, get told I need to pay $800 up front!
SOD THAT! I'll stick with AU.

I tried the iPhone out in the store, but web pages don't load up well, with the wording all over the place and limited screen zooming.

Tom, the 40 cents a minute charge is exactly the same as Softpant's per minute charge on their White Plan.

Also, Softpant's tell us that we MUST subscribe to their S!Mail service, but yet, the iPhone cannot use it! So why the hell should we have to subscribe to it? And why do iPhone users have to pay a higher charge for unlimited web use and emails when ordinary SoftPant's users don't? They get the SAME service but pay LESS!

Softbank, Vodafone, DoCoMo, they're all the same - thieving robbing liars!]]>Aug 3rd 2008 10:43AM