so, quick question...I am on Verizon right now and am going to switch to Cingular for iPhone (or ATT)... My Verizon plan doesn't expire until August. Can I go into the apple store and buy the iPhone and just wait until August to activate it or do I have to do something when I buy it at the store?
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MacinDoc
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You can activate it at home through iTunes, so there shouldn't be a problem doing this, aside from the irresistible urge to pick up the iPhone and use it...
So, do you think you can hold your iPhone in your hands and not activate it for 2 months?
hahaha i know i know its going to be hard, but id rather do that then pay my 175$ cancellation fee
Spare GSM phones are always handy things to have. If your primary phone is just too valuable (or bulky) to take absolutely everywhere, you can just swap the SIM out into a cheaper phone for those situations where you wouldn't want the primary phone. Likewise during hurricanes here in Florida, I keep an older phone or two charged up, ready for use if I can't charge my primary.
SheriffParker
macrumors 6502a
poppe
macrumors 68020
This is what I don't get at all about ATT.
The iPhone does not include picture mail (an actual application that sends it for you) or video mail, but the only way to get Unlimited text (and I mean unlimited not 1500) is to pay $20 per month for unlimited text, picture, and video. This blows my mind sense the iPhone can email the pictures so you are getting charged for nothing, and does the iPhone even take videos? And does anyone truly send via the phones anyways?
Very disappointed. I am still torn:
Do I stay with sprint and have everything I want or do I go to ATT and spend 30 extra a month just to get an equivalent plan?
The iPhone does not include picture mail (an actual application that sends it for you) or video mail, but the only way to get Unlimited text (and I mean unlimited not 1500) is to pay $20 per month for unlimited text, picture, and video. This blows my mind sense the iPhone can email the pictures so you are getting charged for nothing, and does the iPhone even take videos? And does anyone truly send via the phones anyways?
Very disappointed. I am still torn:
Do I stay with sprint and have everything I want or do I go to ATT and spend 30 extra a month just to get an equivalent plan?
diamond.g
macrumors G5
Same boat. The Financial Advisor (read:Wife) has approved the iPhone switchover (cause she would get one too). But I am not sure if I want to give up the freebies. The deal is only made sweeter cause I could get a crappy GSM phone with no camera for work and swap SIM's. That and it is new tech (I went as far as to import a japanese PSP, so yeah I am a tech nut) the temptation is killing me. I was telling the FA that we should probably wait 16 days to see if there is any fall out. If there isn't then we can switch. But boy I am not gonna enjoy giving Sprint 400 bucks to leave....
diamond.g
macrumors G5
Okay so I got a BAN and I seem to be good to go. I was going to get two free phones on the family plan and then get two iPhones in like 3 weeks (after you guys test it out for the rest of us 😀). I was talking to a friend and he was telling me that the free phones are locked to the first SIM you stick in them. So if the iPhone has it's own SIM how am I to use the free phone as my nocamera work phone?
Ugg
macrumors 68000
Yeah, if there's a lot of negative hype in the beginning, the iPhone might well be a hard sell in Europe. Especially if it's sold as contract only. The Telegraph's "error" regarding prices is going to be a huge distraction for a lot of people. Nobody, but nobody knows what pricing is going to be in the UK but the Telegraph used the pound sign instead of the dollar sign. Apple's exchange rate isn't the greatest but it's nowhere near one to one.
More Minutes...More Money
This article says:
- $169.99 for 4000 voice minutes
- $219.99 for 6000 voice minutes
I just looked on the Apple website and it says:
- $210.00 for 4000 voice minutes 😱
- $310.00 for 6000 voice minutes 😱
I use a Treo on a different carrier for work and using 10,000 or more minutes in a month is not unusual for me. I was about to buy an iPhone but not after seeing this change in plans.
This article says:
- $169.99 for 4000 voice minutes
- $219.99 for 6000 voice minutes
I just looked on the Apple website and it says:
- $210.00 for 4000 voice minutes 😱
- $310.00 for 6000 voice minutes 😱
I use a Treo on a different carrier for work and using 10,000 or more minutes in a month is not unusual for me. I was about to buy an iPhone but not after seeing this change in plans.
I have an 02 account here in the UK that has 500 minutes on it!
10,000 minutes? If my maths are right that means you spend about 40 hours a week on the phone?! That's crazy! If mobile phones give you brain tumours, well, let's just say you might called The Elephant Man in the future...
Disregard my last post...my mistake
I found the correct rates listed under the individual plans. I was originally looking under the family plans which I thought would have been cheaper. I'm still considering an iPhone now.
And although I don't always spend 40 hours a month on the phone I have done it in the past. And I know harveypooka wouldn't believe that I work 80-110 hours a week either but I really do.
I'm surprised my brain isn't fried already.
I found the correct rates listed under the individual plans. I was originally looking under the family plans which I thought would have been cheaper. I'm still considering an iPhone now.
And although I don't always spend 40 hours a month on the phone I have done it in the past. And I know harveypooka wouldn't believe that I work 80-110 hours a week either but I really do.
I'm surprised my brain isn't fried already.