News October 29, 2009

The Palm Pre costs $1,250 less than the iPhone or Droid over 2 years

Billshrink.com just did an analysis comparing the iPhone 3GS on AT&T, the Palm Pre on Sprint, and Motorola Droid on Verizon.

If you are looking at an unlimited voice and data plan, you will spend $1,250 less over two years. There are still substantial savings even with more limited plans. The phones, on paper, have fairly similar specifications and capabilities and in terms of Network quality, speed, coverage ranking I would say Verizon, Sprint, AT&T in that order.

It makes it all the more painful why Sprint had such bad results as discussed earlier today. Sprint really is one of the best valued carriers at the moment.

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http://www.geardiary.com Michael Anderson

I have to admit that I find those things useless … they could do the HTC Touch Pro 2 (AT&T) vs. HTC Touch Pro 2 (Verizon) vs. HTC Touch Pro 2 (Sprint) vs. HTC Touch Pro 2 (TMobile) and get a wider variety in pricing …
http://www.geardiary.com Carly Z

These are interesting but somewhat inaccurate. I would love it if BillShrink would also let you input any corp discounts, etc to get a better grasp on monthly plans.

Incidentally, when I plugged in my usage, it told me T-Mobile would save me ~$1,000, Sprint ~$500, Verizon ~$100, and inexplicably AT&T would run me an EXTRA $240. Huh?
doogald

I make very few voice calls anymore, and almost all of them are to family on the same plan anyway. I do not need unlimited voice at all, or even 900 minutes a month.

Part of Sprint’s problem, I think, is that they had absolutely atrocious customer service for quite some time, so lots of customers dropped them and will never go back.