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Increased Data Plan Prices…for What?

There’s been a lot of mail going back and forth between the Gear Diary Team regarding a couple of recent iPhone posts.  There are some important points that I want to make certain everyone hears, before they go off and spend money on a new iPhone 3G. That money may not get you as much as you think it might.

According to fellow Team Members Wayne Schulz and Kerry Woo, the lines for the new iPhone 3G are already forming at New York’s flagship 5th Avenue Apple Store.  You can see the post on that, here - Let Freedom Ring (iPhone 3G Style).

I’ve been looking at AT&T’s 3G network lately and wondering why we’re “knee deep in the hoopla.”  Apparently my post on AT&T/iPhone US 3G Coverage caused quite the stir over the weekend. It’s gotten some people thinking, but I don’t think that everyone has quite connected ALL of the dots.  The economy sucks right now folks, and before we go off stimulating other people’s wallets, I wanted to make certain that everyone had as much information as possible. I’m specifically speaking to people who already own iPhones.  Everyone else should listen, especially those non-iPhone users (whether AT&T customers or not) who don’t live in a 3G coverage area.

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Second Verse, Same as the First…

Apologies to Christopher Spera, but he used such a great title for his new Sprint Palm 700wx review at PocketNow that I just had to recycle it!

According to him, ”The Sprint powered Palm 700wx is the 700w remade.  The 700wx has three distinct improvements over the 700w: 64MB instead of just 32MB, The ability to use the device as an EV-DO modem AKU2.x, and the new Communications Manager comes preinstalled.”

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