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We've had discussions over the last few months on how expensive both the Mp3 players and the visorphone is. I don't neccesarily want to talk about it forever, but I cam across the Samsung Uproar m100 today which is a PCS phone and 64MB mp3 player. Well, It costs $399 with activation and who knows how much without. Still less than a VDX+mp3+visorphone, but where still not apples to apples on functionality. I guess I just wanted to point out that the engineering and newneess, of convergant devices drives the price up quite a bit.

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Registered: Feb 2001
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And the real bottom line is that with both options you're carrying about extra devices...

I was gung ho to get the visorphone, until I realized that I would have to de-activate the phone in order to use another device....

So what's the answer? One device that does absolutely everything at once yet costs an ungodly amount of $? Just suck it up and carry a phone and a visor (& whatever else comes along...)?

Registered: Nov 2000
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Really, at $399, its not better than seperates. You can get a good 64mb player for like $250 and then a good cell phone for $150. If you were going for the lowest cost factor though, you could get all that in seperate devices for about $200 (With activation, and I'm not sure what other features THAT phone has). If you added in Visor functions it would probably go up about the same amount a Visor sells for.

I don't think the mp3 modules are too expensive, especially with them selling through deals or specials for $200 now. VisorPhone should be about $200 also though, since I don't even know of any standalone phones that sell for $300 with avtivation.

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I"ve looked at this phone at Sprint, and I must say that it reminds me alot of the old Qualcomm PDA phone's. It is boxy, ugly, and when I asked how they were selling, the sales person said that they were still on their first shipment. Although this phone is a good idea on paper, it still has a long way to go before it hits mainstream.

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Overpriced

MP3 players are still way overpriced for only 64 megs. The GPS are priced more reasonably but the software still sucksve the Magellan and I'm happy with it as a toy though it is presently far from functional as an actual mapping device. The streets are illegible and the maps look like crap. If anyone has a software tip, please share. Also a reasonably priced MP3 with a decent amount of memory would also be appreciated. Time will tell . . . . . . . . .

Registered: May 2000
Location: St. Paul, MN
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nokia all the way!!!

I do wonder though.. MY family just bought a state of the art 2.4 Ghz Cordless phone ($180 with $40 rebate, s o$140 overall)
And it really makes me wonder wehre all the features are. A nokia has Games, Infrared, address book, DIFFERENT RINGS, aND MANY MORE FEATURES. eVEN BUYING STATE OF THE ART.. We only got nothing.

No infrared, no way for me to put my address book on the phone, no games, NOTHING! Why to peopel make things that you use more, but don't put good features on it?

They converge things, but than leave out the good stuff!


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Nokia offers phones on both end of the spectrum, low priced crap and high end luxury (Mainly in GSM).

$200 for 64mb is not that bad, its about average and at least does not cost more than a standalone (Like the VisorPhone does). I think Magellan has good software, what did you expect? It uses Vector based maps...

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