You realize that $59.99 is for data and phone service right? I was paying that much for my SLVR. Browsing on my iPhone, visual voicemail (big points on this one from me) and unlimited data along now with access to thousands of hotspots? No wonder I took a half-day last yr to wait in line to get my iPhone.
I didn't mean to cause such a ruckus, as mentioned earlier I was a happy AT&T customer (with phone service in the past).
I purchased an iPod TOUCH (not an iPhone) for the purpose of jail breaking only because I felt it could serve as a better PDA than Palm or Sharp Zaurus etc. - which up to this point the touch has done quite well. When I find wifi access (which isn't hard to find...honestly) it works very well when I travel. I travel to the East coast, West Coast, Denver, Vegas quite often.
Even in rural areas... free, public wifi exists, you just need to look around, or in my case, I'll have my ipod look for it -
And from what I recall, I think the touch has VPN built in without jailbreaking...(at least I thought I read that someplace, but I do have it. I have the 8 gig model touch.)
(click Settings, just the setting underneath wifi)
I paid one price for the ipod touch hardware, knowing I wouldn't have to worry or pay for monthly subscription fees if I owned an Iphone (for data and phone service with ATT). I find that I'm saving revenue (so far). Say what you want.. but it's working for my business and personal travel.
Until the iPhone has a replaceable battery (like 99.98% of other mobile phone hardware manufactures), I'll gladly carrly two slim devices for now, my ipod touch, and a slim mobile phone (on verizon... sigh). PLEASE APPLE, add this hardware feature. Perhaps with all of this savings... I will get impatient and purchase an iPhone someday knowing I'll send it in to have the battery replaced...
