Does anyone know the real cost of these smart phones? I realize dev costs are in the initial price, but when phones have been out for some time like the iPhone, costs are extremely low. Consider also that a lot of these phones come out in europe first so many times the money has already been made back for creating the device. As far as these term fees go, anyone signing with a cell company knows what they are getting into, if they are prepared to pay this kind of fee then so be it. Verizon will either lose business or not, and we'll see their next move.
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:03 AM, b_s-wilk <b1sun...@yahoo.es> wrote: > Verizon Doubles Early Termination Fee and More > > Thursday November 12, @04:27PM > > If you buy a smartphone through Verizon, be prepared for an increase in the > early termination fee. Verizon is doubling the phone-subsidy to $350. What's > more, Verizon also actively charges customers for accidental data > transmissions of as little as 0.02kb. 'They configure phones to have > multiple easily hit keystrokes to launch 'Get it now' or 'Mobile > Web'-usually a single key like an arrow key. [...] The instant you call the > function, they charge you the data fee. Even canceling these unintended > requests as fast as possible using the End key doesn't matter; ANY > data--even one kilobyte--is billed as 1MB. The damage is done.' > > > http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/11/12/2059238/Verizon-Doubles-Early-Termination-Fee-and-More > > Verizon horror stories in this thread: > http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1441822&cid=30080150 > http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1441822&cid=30081014 > > -------- > > My old phone had the hiccups and accidentally sent 40+ text messages to the > first person in my phone book. After I called her to apologize, I called > T-Mobile. They said it looked like a mistake and deleted charges for those > messages. Would Verizon, AT&T or Sprint give credit for a mistake? > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
