lokhor: If $1049 is the price point from Telcos then surely Telecom will offer a $100 off if you register your interest like they have for other handsets

networkn: I would expect to see pricing flooding through tomorrow and Monday if I had to guess.

lokhor:

networkn: I would expect to see pricing flooding through tomorrow and Monday if I had to guess.

I hope so. 

motorwayne: Well, the Harvey/Telecom price isn't going to win any friends. I guess Telecom are just planning on very not many people hearing about the Warehouse Stationary offer and that most people are not pre orderers.

Probably should put the WS offer on FB just b/c they're making an effort, in fact I'll do that right now.

trig42: WS will have just serioulsy pissed off Telecom and Voda.

They will go to Samsung and demand they match it

My opinion:

It will be matched, if not beaten. All WS have done is destroy the margin in a phone that people would probably have happily bought at $1049 (or higher).
Good on them - consumer wins. The other thing that will happen is that the price of the Note and the SII will have to drop to keep the SIII as the flagship model.

I would hold off on preordering as the big players wont like getting beaten by WS/2Degrees. Let's see what the response is.

networkn: Doesn't matter if you get a telecom or vf or 2d one, they are all the same phone and work on all networks right?

It will be interesting to see if they have custom firmware related to the carrier on them, I would be surprised considering the short term between announcement and release.