Monday, July 14, 2008

iPhone 3G Costs an Arm and a Leg in New Zealand?

My sister is coming back from New Zealand this Saturday (19th July). She emailed us all and asked what we wanted, if anything, from New Zealand.

Naturally, of course, my brother-in-law and I requested an iPhone 3G each... LOL, amidst complains from my other sister about wasting money.

Heck! It is supposed to only cost USD 299 without subscription from the Telco! Right? Well... read the attached and decide for yourself.


Click on the image to read the newspaper cutting.

From a New Zealander's point of view (my sister's, of course), the iPhone comes with the hefty price tags of NZ$ 979 for the 8GB version and NZ$ 1129 for the16GB version, which works up to RM 2420 and RM 2790 respectively.

I must say I have to disagree with my sister there. Here a normal Dopod D810 costed RM 2900. And that's with only a 1GB MiniSD card.

So, my conclusion is that it is not expensive! But then again, for me to come up with that kind of moolah right now... now that's the problem... LOL.