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Finally Telcel (America Móvil) put the iPhone on sale without a contract, on Sears and Sanborns (both stores propety of Grupo Carso which is also owner of America Móvil)

The price... well thinking of not having a 2 year contract in which you will be paying $70.00 usd per month plus extra charges (more minutes used or sms or data), well as I was saying the price is as follows:

- 16gb iPhone: $1,300.50 usd
- 8gb iPhone: $1,134.12 usd

Not being tied to a contract... priceless

By the way in the post paid plan you can have unlimited data per moth, you have to pay $53 usd to have that, which means, having that credit in your account and sending an SMS (don't remember the number) to activate the data.

I still think the iPhone is overpriced, overvalued, and not worth that. The only innovation it has is the screen, since "full browser" exists since Opera Mobile / Mini and Nokia Browser (actually based in webkit just like safari).

The Samsung Omnia 16gb costs $840.00 usd (in Mexico), and it does so much more than the iPhone and not tied to Apple restrictions in software (just go to handango.com or pocketgear.com to see), also there is the options of N81 and N95 with 8gb each from Nokia, far cheaper, and more powerful than the iPhone, and more software.

I'm keeping my Sony Ericsson W960i (8gb, 3.2mp camera, touch screen, office suite, 3G, Wifi, unlocked, untied, real bluetooth not crap like the iPhone) which by the way now costs $350.00 usd (in Mexico)

Sears Mexico Store
Mercado Libre (Mexican eBay)

In the mobile phone market Mexico is not that bad, it is still more expensive than other countries like USA or half of Europe, still with a market penetration of almost 70% it is a mature market, the bad thing is the providers:

- 80% of the market belongs to Telcel (America Movil)
- 10% is to Telefonica's Movistar (sucky coverage)
- 7% to Iusacell (Grupo Salinas cheaters at SEC) which is also Unefon (they merged) and they have bad coverage too
- 3% to NII or Nextel (which is not Sprint), the worst service, extremly expensive and the worst coverage ever.

Now there is a new player, I don't know if they had their own network or are renting others, it is MaxcomCel which is part of a small telecomm called Maxcom, they had presence (in all their services) in Puebla, Mexico City and Queretaro, but the mobile is in the entire country.

I'm beting they have their own network in their current cities and rent in the others. Still is not the best plan ever, they have only three phone models, all of them from the ubber ugly and useless Motorola.

But still is good that there are other players around. I just hope for better costs data and voice. I'm paying way to much for what I get.

Please a minute of silence...

Ok, now a minute to yell at Sony Ericsson, my new mobile, which I bougth on december 4th this year, stopped working, just because, I plug it to put some song into it, and it never turned on again, dead, totally dead, don't know why, I didn't do anything.

Now everytime I tried to turn it on a red light blinks in the keypad, it doesn't charge, I removed the battery and put it again and doesn't work either.

WHY o WHY!

While looking for a solution on the web, which is useless, since all teh forums think everybody is an IT expert, using terms and giving answers like, "just flash it" can you please explain that... just flash it, I need a step by step thing.

By the way I found the solution to my other mobile, and it is working fine again, but now I like the new one working again!!!

I someone has the answer, tomorrow I'm going to the Sony Ericsson center in Queretaro, I hope is a few minutes problem solution, so I can take it again with me few minutes later at no cost WARRANTY!!

This month my mobile plan is renewed, so I can change my mobile for a new one, the only bad thing is... I'm always wanting a very new mobile, and considering that the average mexican doesn't care about their phone, and those who cares, care more about how it looks than how it works, so the only phones avaible are not good enough, I want a 5MPx camera phone, could be the Nokia N95 or the SE K850, but none of this are avaible yet, in six months they will, I can get them in the store but without the discount of the plan, so paying $750.00 usd for the Nokia is a lot of money, and $550.00 for the SE is less expensive, but still!

With the discount I could get the SE in $100.00 and the Nokia in $300.00 (is an estimate), my other choices are the HTC Touch (smartphone Windows Mobile), also not avaible in discount, the Skyzen Hummer Phone (nice looking touch screen, plays MP3's) this one is avaible now and free, and the SE W580 (good mp3 bad camera) free

I hate that, it always happends to me, when I have the chance to change phone, the ones I want are expensive and not avaible with plan discounts. So I will change for one of those options, because I love to change phone, one that is free, and six months later, will buy the one I really want.

Yesterday somebody send me a mail about the accesories for the mobile ZONDA MPTREZ, the one I talked about the other day, made and invented in Mexico (proud of) and they have new cool accesories to improve you already Zonda phone.

You can buy movies to see in your phone!! they have a complete catalogue in their website Zonda Shop

They give you a free movie preloaded in your phone.

The speakers...


And other stuff!

I'm starting to like more this phone, It's a shame that the camera is only 1.3mp, but they have a really cool camera phone to come.

The phone cost $250.00usd and teh speakers $40.00

Good pricing too!