http://gigaom.com/mobile/199-blackberry-tour-hits-verizon-july-12th-pre-orders-start-now/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:54:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/mobile/199-blackberry-tour-hits-verizon-july-12th-pre-orders-start-now/#comment-421860 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:17:49 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=39114#comment-421860 It’s a nice phone, but it’s not $199. If I sold you this phone for $10 but you have to pay me $500 tomorrow it’s not a $10 phone. Maybe you think I’m pedantic but if you report it this way it just encourages the anti-competitive phone/contract bundling strategies that we see because people don’t know what they are paying, rather than a free market where phones and contracts are separate.
A better price to report is net present cost, where the interest rate isn’t important over 2 years so it’s approximately $199+monthly contract price*24.

]]> http://gigaom.com/mobile/199-blackberry-tour-hits-verizon-july-12th-pre-orders-start-now/#comment-421859 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:06:25 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=39114#comment-421859 Never mind, re read it and found the answer to my question.

]]> http://gigaom.com/mobile/199-blackberry-tour-hits-verizon-july-12th-pre-orders-start-now/#comment-421858 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:50:22 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=39114#comment-421858 So if I am reading this correctly, the Tour could be unlocked and used on ATT with 3G service?

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