14 DAY TRIAL // Everyone knows the prices of the future to be launched iPhone versions. The 4 GB one will cost 499$ and the 8GB one 599. That's what Apple said about their new device and that is the thing everyone knows.
Until yesterday, those were the exact prices associated with the iPhone. But a leaked Cingular ad (nobody knows yet where the image you see in the left comes from but until now this is the best guess) from a consumer survey changed all that in a blink of an eye.
That survey was conducted (and probably still is) by Pinecone Research and as it seems, it tries to give a more complete image on what will happen if the iPhone price will drop so dramatically.
That is still a guess but until anything official comes out, that is the only possibility a sane individual would think of at the moment. Do not believe this is true not even for a single second because the design of this, let's call it prototype Cingular ad gives us a serious hint it is a fake. It is totally unprofessional, without any kind of logic in spacing and font choosing.
Still, one can find some excuses to this fact if it tries hard enough. This leaked "ad" has been probably put together in a hurry because the design doesn't really matters in such cases, the most important part being the transmitted information and the general idea of the survey.
However, even if this is true, it shows a lack of interest from Apple, a thing which goes exactly in the opposite direction when one is thinking about the Apple way of handling things.
In conclusion, this leaked survey picture could represent anything, from a complete fake to a Cingular/iPhone ad mock-up put up in a hurry.
The important things though are the iPhone's prices and whether they (the 299$ for the 4GB and the 399$ for the 8GB) will stand up until the official iPhone launch or not, nobody can tell yet.
But, in case this survey story will be confirmed, one thing gives hope to all the iPhone fans out there: the result of this survey (if it ever existed) could change Apple's mind to lower down the price tags for their cellphone.
