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So should i wait til next month when the iPhone 3G is released to make sure? Cause the back to school special isnt over until September 15. Which is about the start of my first year in college.

Qdon wrote:

So should i wait til next month when the iPhone 3G is released to make sure? Cause the back to school special isnt over until September 15. Which is about the start of my first year in college.

I would wait till the 2.0 software is released ... and then buy the touch from apple ... otherwise you will more than likely be paying 10 bucks for the new software.. (unconfirmed)

I think the main reason they were able to drop the price of the iPhone is because the carriers will be subsidizing the price of the handset.  Don't hold your breath for a significantly cheaper iPod touch.

I don't think the price of the touch will drop, either.  Initially I thought it would, before I found out that the carriers are "subsidizing" the costs of the iPhone by raising fees $10 for the 3G plan, equating to $240 over a two year contract.  So looks like the price will stay on the Touch.  At most, I think we'll see increased memory, or, if it gets cheap enough, the 8gb Touch could be at the same pricepoint as the 80gb Classic.

mrreet2001 wrote:

Qdon wrote:

So should i wait til next month when the iPhone 3G is released to make sure? Cause the back to school special isnt over until September 15. Which is about the start of my first year in college.

I would wait till the 2.0 software is released ... and then buy the touch from apple ... otherwise you will more than likely be paying 10 bucks for the new software.. (unconfirmed)

The $10 price was confirmed by Jobs himself during the keynote if that's what you were unsure about. If you were unsure about whether or not the iPod touch will ship with the newer firmware once it is released, I don't see any reason why they would ship with the older version. So, you have a good point there. Qdon should probably wait until the 2.0 firmware is released to save $10 (and possibly more, but probably not).

Macskeeball wrote:

mrreet2001 wrote:

Qdon wrote:

So should i wait til next month when the iPhone 3G is released to make sure? Cause the back to school special isnt over until September 15. Which is about the start of my first year in college.

I would wait till the 2.0 software is released ... and then buy the touch from apple ... otherwise you will more than likely be paying 10 bucks for the new software.. (unconfirmed)

The $10 price was confirmed by Jobs himself during the keynote if that's what you were unsure about. If you were unsure about whether or not the iPod touch will ship with the newer firmware once it is released, I don't see any reason why they would ship with the older version. So, you have a good point there. Qdon should probably wait until the 2.0 firmware is released to save $10 (and possibly more, but probably not).

I know I will be paying for the upgrade ... I am just not sure that the new ones will come with the upgrade (which they should but who knows) ... and if they do come with it ... will the old ones be reduced in price again.

Qdon wrote:

will the old ones be reduced in price again.

What are u talking about price drop again?

when they release the software update the last time ... the new stock had the update for the same price and the old stock was like 10 or 20 bucks off and didn't have the software update.

It looks kind of stupid having the touch at 299 and the iphone at 199, regardless of subsidies.  Isn't the base iphone and the base itouch the same thing - one with phone and one without?  Or am I missing some spectacular difference between the two?

I am curious to see what 3rd party apps become available for the Touch. If Firefox and maybe a few other apps I can't think of off the top of my head are ported then the Touch would start to look much more attractive to me.

Oh - I forgot - you don't get the 199 price unless you sign a contract right?

Not only does the 199 dollar iPhone price only availible with a two year contract, you must also activate your account in store now.  To attempt to crack down jailbroken iPhones, Apple is making you activate in stores.  This allows them to track your phone usage from the start, and I believe there are some tax things that are tacked on if they have reason to believe you jailbreak your phone.  I will try to find a link to all of that.

mrreet2001 wrote:

test wrote:

Yeah, actually, the extra $100 up front for the iPod Touch doesn't seem so bad if that is all it costs not to be burdened by a cell phone. Seriously, all I'd use a cell phone for is to tell telemarketers it is bad enough they harass me on my land line 5-10 times per day and to smurf off and stop calling me on my cell phone too and costing me money. Not having to put up with that is worth something to me, maybe even $100. I'll have to give that some thought.

I have had a cell phone for the last 9 years and I have never got a telemarketer call.

I did get one set, but it was obviously from some illegal operation (telling me--in Spanish--that I was eligible to play some lottery in Mexico) that they weren't going to let anything as slow as the law stop them.

test, if you are in the US you can always put your phone numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry. Note that because of a change in the laws you no longer have to re-register after a couple of years: any number so registered is on this registry permanently. I did file a complaint about those above calls here and those calls stopped shortly afterwards.