Hey patrick, can’t you get the price difference? Or actually return the refurb, and get the brand new for $100 cheaper? Anyway, just got back from the apple store and got my $200+tax. Now, I can get the Nano too. Oops, I mean the iPod FATTY…

Okay, I take that back.

Now I can get the new ZEN. Unless, the FATTY have FM… I need my Raaaaaaadio!

Wooooooooooohoooo!!!

Nice to see the iPod Fatty name is taking off

(credit goes to engadget I believe for the name)

Nowire – yeah, think their policy says refund is possible …

Patrick, that’s good to hear.

OT. Anyone knows when the Zen is coming out?

NoWire … i checked around and couldn’t find anything worth mentioning.

Sorry

There is a nice write up on this over at engadget as well (http://www.engadget.com/page/3/)

sorry, didnt notice the links. You can delete previous post

Check Amazon on the Zen. I know you can preorder it but I don’t recall whether there was a date attached to it. I think that looks like one of the best around.

Doug

No problem knaak… the more we link out the more they may remember to link in

Well folks I bit the bullet. My first offical comment from my iPhone and it only took like 2 minutes

Congrats, Brandon. While I can predict some of what you might have to say, I am looking forward to your comments.

OK, so here is my question. With the 8GB iPhone now costing under $400, why would you buy an iPhone Touch fro almost the same money?

Doug

Since the iPhone is not available in the Netherlands until December, I’m not sure if I got this right. But if you get the iPhone, you also need to get a contract with some service provider, right? So that would cost additional money. If you already have a phone or PPC, you wouldn’t need that (having the iPhone for +/- $400 might be fine but not if you are also bound to a 1 or 2 year contract which costs you money as well), while the iPhone Touch doesn’t keep costing you money in the next months.

I’m not sure if I understood everything very well so if I’m wrong anywhere, please explain to me how it does work!

Exactly spm … to buy an iphone and make it usable it requires activation on a provider’s network. The iPhone won’t even let you look at the interface until you “activate” it.

If you have T-Mobile and you really just want all the features of the iphone (like safari, ipod) then the touch makes sense.

If you want the PHONE then the iPhone makes sense.

And out of curiosity … what do you think I might say?!

OK. I didn’t realize the iPhone ws all locked up like that. I thought it would be like a WinMo phone. If you don’t get service then you can still use it, you just can’t use the phone/data and it would become the equivelant of a standard PDA/WinMo Classic. OK. So thanks for that clarification.

Doug

That’s just the initial phone activation. I’ve not tried it yet without a sim after the initial activation…

I would be very curious to know whether it works at all without a SIM installed.

I do wish there was a way to get Safari-like browsing on the WinMo. Although I have to say, I took some great advice and have been trialing Opera. It is a world better than PIE.

Doug