Apple iPhone 5 and Sony Playstation Vita comparison

[Killy_Vorkosigan]

Chandler said:

superchunk said:

Chandler said:
But it's not a 200$ phone.

Its not?

Who the hell buys a phone off contract?

Yes, it's not. A huge chunk of the contract is to pay off the phone. Calculations like this make people get into crazy high depts because they onls think about the initial cost and forget about the huge tail.

People who don't want to be tied by a contract, who don't want operator-modified rom, especially when you work abroad and you can't tell where you'll be tomorrow. 

Also I had the surprise, at my first smartphone, to find out some function had been deactivated by operator's rom. And for me it's much cheaper that way, finding cheap pay as u go SIM in different country that you can swap....

My two cents !