Setting: An average Rogers store. Center stage is the iPhone podium while stage right and back hold displays of various GSM phones. Stage left is a sales counter, behind which stands Sales Dude.
Me: Excuse me, how much for the Blackberry Bold?
Sales Dude: That’ll be four-hundred dollars.
Me: Wow, I can swing that.
Sales Dude: Alright, let me just print out the contact
Me: (cutting him off) Oh no, I want month to month.
Sales Dude: Sir. Four-hundred dollars is the three-year contract price!
Me: (exasperated) What? Well, how much is it without a contract?
Sales Dude: If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.
Me: (with a heavy sigh) Give me an iPhone.
Well, no, I’m certainly not about to give up on my Crackberry addiction and get an iPhone, but Crackberry.com has unearthed a Rogers Wireless flyer showing the latest and greatest hopefully soon to finally be released Blackberry as $399 on a three-year contract. Meanwhile, the much in demand iPhone sits at $199.
It looks like I’ll be using my now archaic Blackberry 8700 for a while longer.
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