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iPhone Can Replace Laptops for Majority of Computer Users

As I was read the article, I notice my poor laptop sitting under some papers. It's true: I've used the iPhone for email, for Christmas shopping, for getting down story ideas, and, while writing (on paper), to replace both my seven pound dictionary and fact-checking and research via laptop or desktop computer.

I do use the desktop and 23" screen morning and evening, but most of the day it's the iPhone.

My laptop is afraid. Very afraid.

AT&T's iPhone 3G Pricing: Bad, But Not That Bad

$199 (for 16GB) is the contract price.

If I am a previous iPhone subscriber, the new-phone upgrade cost is exactly that of a new customer ($199). If i am a non-iPhone subscriber, eligible for upgrade, the cost, again, is $199.

The higher price refers to a non-iPhone subscriber who wishes to break his previous contract to switch phones. If he doesn't like it, he either buys a new line for $199 and keeps his old phone until the old contract is fulfilled, or waits.

What exactly is the surprise?