Pink elephant in the room: data plan charges.
I would love to buy an iPod Touch that works as dumb cellphone since it will save me the hassle of carrying two devices. Puzzling why there is no such device from the biggies.
I would love to buy an iPod Touch that works as dumb cellphone since it will save me the hassle of carrying two devices. Puzzling why there is no such device from the biggies.
We probably have the smallest operator margins (and/or most network overcapacity) in the EU. The US mobile communication prices seem unbelievable, esp. when everything related to tech is usually considerably more expensive here.
And the touch is only $200 because it doesn't include all of that hardware. They're much thinner. I bet they'd be a bit more if you put that stuff in there...
I would love to be proven wrong that there is some objective reason why the cellphone chip and a GPS chip would add $400 to a device (standalone cellphone and GPS together will cost less than $100, so the bare chips should be much less).