High end Android devices cost less from the start than iPhone, and you can be sure that after three months on the market the'll be at least 10% cheaper than on launch, and it'll keep going down.
Are you speaking about on contract or unlocked? I'm just curious because I'm not sure as to what you're making your comparison on. For me it came down to the Bionic vs iPhone 4s and I chose the iPhone because it was a 100$ cheaper on contract (300 vs 200). As far as I'm concerned the bionic is at the highest end of technology within verizon's offerings (and I'm super jealous of it's LTE capabilities, coworker is pulling 26 MB down consistently!) and it is priced much higher than the iPhone.

Also, after spending the weekend playing with siri and talking with other friends and watching youtube videos, I have to say it has a loooooong way to go before it becomes something truly amazing. Unless you're issuing very terse commands or messages, it produces way too many errors to be useful. I find myself often writing (what I would consider anyways) a small message to be forced to go back and fix all the mistakes the software made. AFAIK there's also no way to append to a message she's composed. So if you take a pause on something and she thinks your done, you have to start the whole message over or take it over by hand to complete it. Kind of forces you into knowing exactly what you want to say at the beginning, and at that point it probably would have been faster to just type it out.


Right now its kind of like a parlor trick. Siri, how many calories in a bagel :wolfram alpha result image: neat-o. It's fun to play with but until they go through a few revisions of it I don't see it being as much use to me.

Still think the phone is a great device though, have enjoyed using it immensely over the weekend.