How to find great deals that can be resold on eBay
Today I would like to talk about two of my favorite methods for finding items to sell when there are no garage sales to visit. Combined and used effectively these two sites can increase your earnings dramatically and I highly recommend they are both visited at least occasionally.
The first method is actually a website that I set as my homepage. It is called slickdeals.net and you can find price mistakes and rebate combinations to get items at well below their value. To give a few examples; one time I purchased two DVD burners and for $50 - $40 instant rebate - $20 mail in rebate for a combined total of $-10. Both DVD burners then sold on eBay for $15 plus shipping each. Just recently on July 20th I purchased a TI-83PLUS for $100 - $25 instant rebate - (2) $25 rebate’s for a combined total of $25. From looking at the recently closed listing I should get $50-60 for the calculator. You will not find good deals every day from this site, however gems do come around and its nice to not miss them which is why I set this as my homepage. I highly recommend at least
book marking this site. You can also go into their forums and find MANY more deals than are listed on the homepage, however the best ones usually make it to the homepage.
The next method is auction misspelling and typo web pages. There are many of them you can find through Google, one of the ones I use is auctionblooders.com This site will help you save money by finding misspelled items on eBay. You type in any item you want to look for, and it will search for all the common misspellings of that word on eBay. I managed to get a Escort Passport 8500 X50 radar detector for over $100 the going rate on eBay, and $200 less than new in the store all because the seller spelled it “Ecsort.”
I have a friend who makes quite a good living from purely buying and reselling
items on eBay, this tool is one of his favorites.
* - If anyone else has any auction typo websites they check feel free to add
them in the comments!
Best time and day to list an eBay auction
I was doing some research today on the best day, and time to end an eBay auction. It was very easy to figure out the best day, I visited 12-15 sites and every single one recommended Sunday as the best day. The consensus on time was between 4-7PM PST. One of the sites polled a lot of members on various dates to figure out trends, I recomend taking a look at it Here
No commentsCreating an eBay Account
Well today I got my first email from a reader, exciting day huh 
Anyways, they were wondering how to create an eBay account. I figured wrongly when I assumed everyone who might find this page would already have an account. Anyways I will be creating a walk through on creating your very own eBay account right now. If anyone else out there has any questions from the simplest to the most complex feel free to fire them my way (chris@garagesale2ebay.com) and I’ll do my best to answer them as detailed and quickly as possible.
* - The first thing you you need to do is go to the account registration page HERE.
* - You will then need to fill out the appropriate information. Make sure you pick the eBay ID wisely, as all your listings will use this name (I suggest the name of your business). Once you agree to eBay’s terms, you will be sent an email with instructions on how to continue.
* - You will now need to register as a seller. Go to eBay’s home page and click on “Sell”.
* - On the following page, click “Sell Your Item”. You will need to have a credit card ready to continue. You may have your eBay fees charged to this card, your checking account, or a paypal account.
* - You are now finished and you can begin selling!
No commentsScoutpal - Amazing tool for book buying
ScoutPal is a monthly subscription service that allows you to access Amazons sales data from your cell phone. Using a web enabled cell phone (almost all cell phones are now.) You log on to their service, input the ISBN or UPC from any book, DVD, CD, or VHS tape. Scoutpal then gives you a detailed summary of the market prices and quantities, the sales rank, the editions and availability, and any used/new/collectible details.
The simplest version, which will accomplish what most people need, costs $9.95 a month, or 29.85 quarterly. (I recomend you take advantage of their 1week free trial here however you will most likely love it and become a monthly subscriber like myself.)
If buying and selling used books are your bread and butter, you can also purchase a portable scanner to hook to your phone which will save a lot of time on typing the ISBN numbers into your cell phone.
Scoutpal can also lookup pricing on PriceGrabber.com but this isn’t near as useful for myself.
You can learn more about it at ScoutPal.com
No comments10 Commonly Found Items that sell on eBay
I found this useful article over at http://www.theauctionrebel.com This is a list of items that show up fairly frequently that most people pass by mistakenly.
1.) Adult Halloween and Holiday costumes. If the costume is in a fairly common size and its in good condition chances are it can easily fetch $50 or more while you are paying less than $10.
2.) College Textbooks. Keep in mind outdated editions of textbooks often sell for a lot less. Nearly every hardcover textbook sells for at least $50, and a good chunk can go for over $100. I don’t know how common these will show up at sales in every town, but they are frequent in mine since we have a state university.
3.) Rich Dad Poor Dad books. There are a bit more than twenty different books in this series by Robert Kuyoski. Individually they wont fetch a large price, however many of the people who have one for sale, will have many. These books easily bring $50-100 for lots of 8 and above.
4.) Bright and Early Beginning Readers for Children. Look for the Dr Seuss Reader logo on the cover, you can usually pick them up for $.25 and then sell lots of 10 or more at a time for roughly $3-5 per book.
5.) Calvin and Hobbs books. Lots of people go crazy over these books, Individuals wont sell for anything extreme, however a group of 5-10 will bring you a very good return on investment.
6.) Homeschooling material. Anything related to homeschooling sells on eBay, however A Beka is the premiere name for books and curriculum material. When you find this stuff, there is usually lots of it and for very cheap. Buy it all and sell by groups for each school grade. Its is very common for a $10 purchase to bring $80-120 or more.
7.) Precious Moments and Prairie Schooler cross stitching pattern books. I only buy these if I can find at least five or so at a time (Which is fairly common,) or if you can find any of the earlier booklets. The early ones can bring $40 and more very easily, whereas the new ones sold in a group of five or more will also bring a very nice profit.
8.) Magic Crochet magazines. There are many crochet magazines, however these are the only ones I consistently make a good return with. Groups of 10 or more will definitely have a good profit margin.
9.) Weight watchers cookbooks. Look for soft cover cookbooks that have the copyright date in the last six years. Do not spend over $1 as most of them don’t sell well individually. Some of them bring $15-25 apiece, the rest sell in a group to make a nice profit.
10.) Animorphs books, these books sell well in large lots, and are also found for sale in large groups which makes it easy. Try not to spend more than $.50 apiece and try to get as many as you can at once. Sell them in groups to make a nice profit. If you happen to see Animorphs videos, games, or any other items at a good price buy them also.
1 commentCreating your Garage Sale Route Map
First things first, the mapping software I prefer to use is Google maps, it is free and they allow you to add locations to the map as long as you have a Google account. (There are many other options you can choose to use, however I will be using Google for this writeup) If you do not have a Google account I recommend you sign up at https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount? You will also be given a @Gmail email account which is an added bonus as I believe they have the best free online email.
You may move on to the following steps once you have your Google account setup, and have the classifieds section of your local paper next to you. (Or any other local garage sale/estate sale location list) I also like to highlight only the garage sales that interest me. (skipping the ones that are mainly clothes or baby/toddler items)
*Sidenote a lot of people believe the best sales are in the affluent neighborhoods, and the worst sales are in the low income neighborhoods. In my experience this has proved untrue, the best sales for me have generally been middle class neighborhoods, with both low and high income neighborhoods performing about the same. If your town/location has any neighborhood that is mostly elderly and retired families this is often a great place to find vintage items.
1.) Go to http://maps.google.com/
2.) In the upper left corner of the screen, right below the “Google maps” icon you should see the 2 taps “Search Results, and My Maps” Click the my maps tab, and then click the “Create New Map” button afterwards.
3.) If you are not logged in already it will bring you to the Gmail login page, where you should enter your username and password and log in. If you are already logged in skip to step 5.
4.) Pick a title for your map (I usually just pick the date of the sales) and then click save
5.) At the top in the “Search the map” Enter the location you would like to map out and zoom/center the area of interest (The plus and minus along the left side zooms in and out, and to center the map simply left click anywhere and drag your mouse to move the map) I have centered my town of Grand Forks, ND.
6.) You may now begin adding your points to the highlighted sales on the map. Start with your first highlighted sale address. For example I have a sale at “2100 11th Ave N,” I would then enter that, followed by your town into the search the map function at the top. My search would be the following “2100 11th Ave N, Grand Forks, ND” It will then center the map at that location and bring up a bubble with a few options.
7.) Click the “Save to My maps” button. Choose which map you would like to save it to, click save, and then click OK.
8.) Continue adding all of the points of interest onto the map until you are done. Once you are done you will want to re-zoom and center your map.
9.) You may then print your map, You can use the print button in the upper right portion of the map, however the map will be a bit small. I usually only use this method if I am in a hurry. Otherwise I will click the print screen button on your keyboard. Then load up any image editing software (I use Adobe Photoshop) and then crop the map down to only the info you need and then re-size to a full page and print.
10.) You are now done, you have have a map looking similar to this, which you can then draw your planned route on.
I hope this helped make everything flow more smoothly and help you use your time and gas more efficiently, it sure helps me.
** Tip I like to make the map and have my route drawn the night before, so that come 7:30 AM I can just walk out the door.
2 commentsBuying at Garage Sales to Sell on Ebay
The first questions you need to ask yourself if you want to be an eBay seller are: “Where do you find things to sell?” and “What should I sell?” There are countless answers to these questions and many of them can be lucrative. With my business models I choose to buy my items at the following places: Garage Sales and Estate sales mainly, but also flea markets or clearance sections of retail stores. The main categories of items I look are are the following: Records, Toys, Books, games, Cd’s, Videos, Video Games, Sports Cards, and neat looking vintage items. With garage sales and estate sales it is not uncommon to find an item that can turn 100%-1000% Return on Investment (ROI) nearly every day.
A great way to test the eBay waters, or gain some experience is selling items around your home. You can then move on to garage sale/estate sale shopping. The great thing about buying your items at garage sales is that you get to handpick the items for your eBay inventory, knowing what they are worth while the seller usually has no idea. Garage sales are an amazing place to find items for $.10 $.50 $1.00 or even $5.00 that can be consistently resold for $10.00, $50.00, and $100.00. So far my best find was a $.10 baseball card box which held many prizes including a 1955 Topps Hank Arron card which fetched just over $200.00 (Good thing the old woman’s husband wasn’t around to slap her for selling his valuable cards for so little.)
It is important to pick at least a couple area(s)/niches that you are interested in, and then become used to the eBay values of the items in your area(s). It may also help to create a cheat sheet when you are just starting by looking at the closed listings on eBay for common final sale prices. Always bring this cheat sheet and a notebook to sales when you first start. When you come across an item that you are on the fence about buying, just write down some info on the items, then write down the phone number or address of the sale. You can then look the item up online later, and if you end up kicking your self for passing it up, call up the seller or stop by the next day and maybe it will still be there. More often than not the items I write down info on would have not been a good buy, so I opt this method over just buying and hoping. It is also good to keep a mental note, or include on your cheat sheet the prices of very common garage sale item’s values. I tend to run across lots of Gameboys, New Cd’s, Popular Rock albums, Video games and systems, and stereos. One thing to keep in mind when starting is YOU WILL MAKE MISTAKES, but because items generally cost under a few dollars you can make an awful lot of mistakes and still come out ahead.
I have put together a few rules that I follow when garage sale hunting.
1.) Always start early, the earlier you arrive, the more likely you will find the good deals before someone else does. Popular items that sell well on eBay tend to be some of the first items picked over at sales, now get up early and make sure they are sold to you, and not another savvy shopper. If a sale is open multiple days make sure you go on the first day, usually visiting sales on the follow days turns up few or no items worth reselling.
2.) Always go to as many sales as possible in your time frame. I will be writing my step by step method of creating an eBay map with a location of every sale in your area in a few days, which I then draw a path so I can hit as many sales with as little driving (so I waste as little gas and time) as possible.
3.) Rarely (I was going to say never, but there are exceptions) pass a sale on the way to another one. Often times I have found my best items at sales that never showed up in the classifieds, maybe this is because no one else managed to find this sale either? My exceptions to this rule are sales that are all clothes, extremely small sales, and sales that are mostly baby and toddler items.
4.) When you find a good sale which has multiple items you plan on purchasing, start a pile or fill a box. When you are done searching the sale for the items, make a mental tally of total eBay value of the items, and a total listed prices of the items. If you have only a few items i tend to offer %60-75 of the listed price for the lot, whereas if I have quite a few items I tend to offer %50 of the listed prices for the whole lot. These offers are rarely rejected, and when they are usually they will counter only asking for a dollar or two more. Buying in bulk is great because you can easily change your ROI from %100-200 to %200-400 which adds up a lot after a while!
5.) Be prepared, Always bring your notebook (and cheat sheets if you have some made). Bring lots of cash (I tend to bring (20) 1’s (6) 5’s (3) 10’s and a couple 20’s.) I have have garage sales unable to make change when I came unprepared with mostly 20’s. And like I mentioned earlier, have your plan of attack set ahead of time. I personally recommend making a map from the classifieds listing the sales that interest you.
6.) Have fun! how many of your friends have a “job” that is actually enjoyable? Don’t take this for granted because few people get to do work they enjoy to earn their living.
No commentsNintendo Wii Bundle Review
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The venerable kart racer heads to the Wii and adds online competition to the mix.
Mario Kart Wii will include 16 new courses and 16 classic courses from previous Mario Kart games. For the first time ever, players have the option of racing with either karts or motorbikes. Players can also hit the road as their personalized Mii caricatures in addition to the handful of classic Nintendo characters found in the game. True to the series, the game features tons of racing, plenty of power-ups and oodles of objects for players to use to slow down other drivers. And 10 battle arenas will keep players busy between trips around the circuit.
The easy-to-use Wii Wheel will also be sold as a separate accessory, giving every driver in the household a chance to get behind his or her own wheel. And if veteran Mario Kart fans are afraid of getting smoked by rookie drivers using the Wii Wheel, they can rest assured that Nintendo has them covered. Mario Kart Wii supports four different control options: Wii Remote with or without the Wii Wheel, Wii Remote and Nunchuk controller combo, Classic Controller and even the Nintendo GameCube controller. So there’s bound to be a configuration that fits everyone’s style.
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No commentsCollege Scholarship Facts
College Cost Facts
More and more high school students are attending college. According to the
Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor, over sixty-five
percent of the high school graduating class of 2002 were enrolled in colleges
or universities in the fall. This proportion is 3.5 percentage points higher
than a year earlier and represents the highest rate of enrollment since 1998.
Cost of Education
During the 2003-04 academic year, college tuition and fees increased an
average of:
| * | $579 at four-year public institutions, or 14.1% |
| * | $1,114 at four-year private institutions or 6.0% |
| * | $231 at two-year public institutions or 13.8% |
Total charges, including room and board, increased 9.8% for public
institutions and 5.7% at private institutions (both due to a lower rate of
increase in room and board).
The average cost for tuition, fees, room and board at a four year public
institution averaged $10,636 in 2002-2003. The average cost for tuition, fees,
room and board at a four year private institution averaged $26,854 in
2002-2003. Although rates have increased, they do not represent a trend of
accelerated rate increases.
Financial Aid
Financial aid to students is growing. In 2002-03, $105 billion was
distributed in student financial aid, $13 billion more than distributed the
previous year.
| * | Total aid per full-time equivalent student averages about $9,100, with $3,600 of that amount in the form of grants. |
| * | Grant aid per full-time equivalent (FTE) student grew $300 or 9 percent this year, compared to a $551 or 13 percent increase in loans per FTE. |
GovernmentAid
Pell Grant funding rose by 15 percent in inflation-adjusted dollars.
However, the average Pell Grant increased only 3 percent, providing an
additional $123 per recipient. The $2,421 average Pell Grant covers less than
30 percent of average total charges (tuition and fees, room and board) at
public four-year colleges and universities, while the maximum Pell Grant
covers 41 percent of these charges.
While most federal grant aid is need-based, a decreasing portion of federal
‘from all sources’ aid is distributed according to need. Combined,
unsubsidized Stafford loans, federal loans to parents and tax credits now make
up 43 percent of total federal aid.
Institutional Aid
Institutional grants account for nearly 20 percent of student aid. These
funds have more than doubled over the past decade and make up about 62 percent
of the grant aid that undergraduates at private colleges receive, and over a
quarter of the grant aid used by those attending four-year public
institutions.
Identifying Financial Need and Awarding Financial Aid
If you will need financial aid to attend college, be attentive to the
financial aid policies of schools you are interested in attending. In some
cases, there are schools that will not consider your request for financial aid
unless you apply for financial aid at the same time that you apply for
admission. Be sure that your financial aid application arrives on time.
Calculating Need
The financial aid office will open a case file for you and perform the
following analysis. First, they will calculate the cost of your college
education for the upcoming year. That dollar amount is your ‘cost of
education’. Second, your ‘family contribution’ will be calculated based upon
the FASFA (free application for federal student aid) and, if a private
college, usually the CSS Profile (College Scholarship Service) and tax
returns. The gap between the cost of education and family contribution is
your ‘demonstrated need’.
Once the financial aid department identified the ‘demonstrated need’, they
begin to develop a financial package to offer you. Some schools notify you of
your financial aid award at the same time that your receive your admission
decision. Others send the financial aid award letter after your admission
decision letter. Some schools are able to offer incoming students with
financial need a complete financing package that covers the total cost of
education. Other schools cannot cover the whole cost and leave a ‘gap’ that
must be filled through other sources such as outside loans, etc. According to
the National Association of College Admissions Counselors, 23% of all colleges
close the “gap” based on the academic desirability of a student.
Closing the ‘Gap’
The financial aid office fills in the gap in the following order:
- Self-help funds in the form of work-study and loans. The area of loans
for school is beyond the scope of this book. However, you should be aware of
how these loans work. Go to
www.ed.gov/DirectLoan/students.html for complete information or check
with the financial aid office of your college. - Federal Pell Grant or state grants may be available for students with
very significant financial need. - Institutional funds
If there continues to be an unmet gap, (73% of the cases), the family will
typically turn to Parent Plus loans, alternative student loans and/or
scholarships to make up the difference.
Impact of Scholarships on Financial Aid
Scholarships are an excellent way top fill the gap between your need and
the college financing package. However, financial aid from all sources may not
exceed the calculated cost of education. Consequently, if you have $2,000 in
scholarships and your college offers you a full package without a gap or the
gap is only $1,000, you have an extra $1,000 that will have to be reconciled.
Many colleges allow students to use scholarship funds in excess of
calculated need to reduce the amount of loans taken. Other schools reduce
their institutional grants on a 1:1 basis with scholarship awards, thereby
destroying the incentive to seek awards. Other schools use a phased approach
where, for example, the first $500 in scholarships reduces loans and any
amount over $500 is equally split between reducing loans and reducing
institutional grants.
You must check with your school to see what their policies are regarding
outside funding. In most cases, scholarships will decrease the overall cost of
going to college.
There is also a certain amount of flexibility in financial aid packages.
So, if you think that your family’s financial need isn’t completely
represented by the usual financial analysis, make an appointment with a
financial aid counselor to review your specific situation. There may be an
opportunity to substitute more institutional grants for loans or find other
creative ways to improve your package.
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No commentsVerizon BlackBerry Storm Review
Features and Design
The first thing you’ll notice about the Storm, is that the handset is
somewhat heavy and bulky. RIM chose to include an extended battery with this
model, presumably to appease both consumers and business users who want to: A.
watch a lot of movies and listen to music or B. surf the Web in their lonely
hotel rooms all evening. Translation: Size-wise, it’s a beast. The Storm weighs
almost 5.5 ounces (5.46 to be exact) and measures 4.4” x 2.4” x .55” (LxWxD), or
almost a half-inch thick. Read: It’s a rock in a pants pocket and doesn’t work
that well in your shirt pocket either, however if you are more interested in
battery life than weight, this will not bother you..
There are just a handful of hardware buttons on the Storm: A phone dial and
end call button; the menu key ; escape key; a voice dial button on the left
side; a camera button on the right side; a lock and a mute button on top; and
volume controls that are located on the right side. Both the lock and mute
buttons are easy to miss because they are recessed into the casing.
Setup and Use
Here is what you get for the low, low price of $200 (plus Verizon Wireless
contract): The Storm includes a 3.2 megapixel camera; GPS with voice navigation;
1GB of on-board memory; a battery that lasts six hours; a bright 3.25” 480×360
color display that supports over 65,000 colors; Bluetooth 2.0 with stereo audio;
GSM and EV-DO Rev A; a microSD slot; and a standard size 3.5mm headphone jack (earbud
headphones included).
So, how could you go wrong with all of these features? For starters, the main
issue with the Storm is that the touchscreen is very hard to use, even with some
practice. Be aware: When you poke an on-screen prompt, you are pressing down on
the entire screen as if it were a button itself (almost like clicking on a
mouse), and the phone is registering where you prod, which is a bit odd at
first, but I soon began to love.
Moving right along, if you turn the phone to the side, the Storm will switch
to landscape mode automatically (using the accelerometer) with a full keyboard.
RIM offers a few neat tricks – you can hover your finger over the cursor to
“pick it up” and move it to another part of a field and enjoy a simple way to
search for email addresses. The Storm does not support multi-touch gestures,
however, so you can’t zoom in by spreading out two fingers on the screen. To
zoom in, you instead tap the screen twice and, to zoom out, you press Escape..
Extra Features and Functions
You’re in for a treat, as the Storm is a very capable smartphone – one of the
best ever made, in fact.
Network
It runs on the EV-Do Rev A network, which means (at least in the areas we
tested the device) speeds approached 1 Mbps for Internet browsing and e-mail. We
pulled up a YouTube video (at m.youtube.com) and had one playing in seconds,
albeit in low-resolution, though, in a sweet turn, there were no pauses or
annoying stutters. Other sites such as ESPN.com and IGN.com loaded
lightning-fast as well, even though the Storm (unlike the iPhone) does not
support Adobe Flash. No matter – text and graphics still loaded quickly and
accurately in the fully HTML-aware browser, even for rich content sites and
video sites like YouTube.
Camera
Also bear in mind that the phone’s camera is a major plus. We took a series
of pictures inside and out and were impressed with the results. The Storm goes
into a quick auto-focus mode that helps make sure images are clear, and for
inside shots, there’s even a handy light that illuminates the subject matter.
Whereas the iPhone and even the Nokia N96’s photos look muddy and dull, shots on
the Storm looked bright and clear. Videos also appeared bright and crisp, and it
was great recording them to the handset’s spacious 1GB internal memory.
GPS
GPS capability worked perfectly during a long road trip too. The voice
prompts were clear and accurate, utilizing Verizon’s VZ Navigator program. You
can even look up nearby movies, find routes and look at maps, avoid traffic
delays, and send a message from the GPS client with an automatic note stating
when you will arrive at a meeting. We also liked that, when you click up or down
on the volume buttons, the GPS client changes the voice by gradation – dwindling
from loud voice to medium voice and so on.
Call Quality
More importantly, calls on the Storm sounded very clear and tonally rich from
our perspective. The receiving end – e.g. the person we were talking to – said
the call sounded a bit digital or robotic. That’s typical of BlackBerry devices
though, which use a high-quality speaker and an average-quality microphone for
talking. Talk time lasted for two days of casual use, and about six hours of
near-constant use. Honestly, it’s an amazing feat, because the iPhone and
G1 will die if you use them consistently for just a few hours in one sitting. By
comparison, we used the Storm all morning to talk to friends, browse the Web and
even get driving directions and only one bar on the battery icon was gone,
AMAZING
Media Capabilities
As a media phone, the Storm beats the G1 by far, and ties iPhone’s celebrated
multimedia capabilities. You can quickly load music and movies onto the device
using BlackBerry media management software – it even supports file conversion
from iTunes. We loaded 200 music files onto a MicroSD card and they sounded
clear and crisp using the included earbud headphones. Even the external speaker
on the Storm is not very “BlackBerry-ish” in that it is actually worth using.
(Note that the G1 doesn’t even have a video player and is somewhat limited for
music as well, although it is very easy to buy Amazon MP3 files.) What we didn’t
like about the Storm for media, however, is that there is no Apple iTunes
equivalent – a really powerful music and movie organizer that would let you dump
tracks onto the device with ease.
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Conclusion
There’s is a bit of improvement that could be made on the touch screen
keyboard. The Storm would be winning awards for call quality, media
support, miscellaneous extras, a high-quality camera and built-in GPS – after
all, it is an uber-phone at a decently low price. But know this before taking
the plunge: Thumb-punching maniac typists may have a bit of a learning
experience to get back up to full speed..
Pros:
• Amazing call quality
• High quality camera
• Built-in GPS
• Good media support
• Lots of extras
Cons:
• Typing can be difficult
• Interface was slow a few times
No commentsApple iPhone 2.0 Review (Two Thumbs Up)
iPhone 3G The Good:Faster download speeds
Talk and get data simultaneously
New, lower priceSupport for third-party applications
Integrated GPS
The Bad:
Still a 2-megapixel camera
Limited GPS functionality
Still exclusive to AT&T
The Price:
US$199 - 8G
BUS$299 - 16GB
If you look at the iPhone 3G, perhaps you wouldn’t think it’s too different from its predecessor. But looks can be deceiving. And in the case of the iPhone 3G, they’re likely to be very deceiving indeed: the video iPhone 3G looks to be a big jump past the original iPhone.
From its faster Internet connection to its support for GPS and third-party applications - video to iphone 3G converter to its lower price, the iPhone 3G looks to be a major upgrade.
Many things about the iPhone 3G are the same: a 2-year contract with AT&T (subsidized upgrades are available to all iPhone owners and new AT&T customers, as well as select other customers), support for all the same widgets and firmware features, the terrific multi-touch screen, and intelligent sensors that determine whether the phone is near your head and shuts off the screen and the one that knows whether the phone is oriented horizontally or vertically.
And while those familiar features are nice, the video iPhone 3G’s changes should really make the device shine.
A Great Phone Gets even Better. The phone features of the original iPhone didn’t leave too many people complaining (though it’s still missing voice dialing, a feature I’d like). Visual Voicemail felt like a breakthrough (though perhaps it wasn’t quite as useful as its hype would have suggested) and features such as three-way calling were a snap to use. While call quality was decent, more advanced cell phone features sucas MMS messaging or certain Bluetooth features were not available.
The phone features on the iPhone 3G have all the same strengths and even add one: improved call quality. Because the iPhone 3G uses the 3G phone network which carries more data faster, the call quality when connected to a 3G network should be superior.
Overall if you have the chance to get this phone, please do, you will not regret it!
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Ringaza Review
I rarely sign up for services like this, however I finally decided to spice my phone up. I signed up for Ringaza via a banner like the one below and filled out my info picked my songs and bam I was rocking new tunes withing minutes. I was surprised how quick painless and cheap it truly was. I always heard people complaining about ringtone services, well call me lucky, but the first service I signed up for worked flawlessly, which is why if you ever need ringtones in the future, I recomend you add ringaza to your list of possible ringtone sources.
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