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Originally Posted by #5
I don't see any mistake by verizon. The phone failed to meet their standards. Iphone moved on to the easy carrier. 
It will sell good out of the gate for novelty's sake. Let's talk in a year when the demand settles down. |
I think already you're assuming too much (1 year). If this thing isn't polished and impressive at launch, demand could just as easily take the PS3 route - especially at that price point ($500 / $600), which coincidentally is identical to the PS3's. Like I said, people are making way too many assumptions, with way too little information.
Another big question mark, where the math gets a little interesting for them: with the edge network, you'll typically be able to download at 80-110k rates, or about 3/4 of a MB per minute. So it takes about 10 minutes to download your average, 7-8MB song. Is that going to be too slow for people? I'm not saying it is, I'm saying I wonder if it is. On Sprint or Verizon, which use EVDO, you could get the same thing in under 2 minutes... would they have been a better choice?