I will NOT pay for a data plan that costs $50.00 or so a month - or approximately $1200.00 over the life of the minimum contract. If I could use the data plan at home and use the phone in place of my home land-line phone, then I would. I can't. It just is not reliable enough (i.e. reception) and I cannot have 3 phones scattered through the house where I can pick up one as I can with my land-line.
The value just is not there.
If reception were excellent though you might think about it though. As far as a value...please see my rant below
On a relevant note, the unlimited data plan with AT&T is $40 on top of your phone plan. That makes the iPhone's cost of ownership incredibly high.
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Some of us are already paying 39 unlimited data + text (current package $44) for use with a blackjack/treo 750 (I have both). So I guess I have to ask how much better does it have to be for those of us stuck with a winmobi device to move to an iphone, and that is assuming its the same data package?
The way the treo/blackjacks were originally intended to be used for was email/pim functions. Assuming that the iphone does it too and as well, what is the real difference? 1-200$? If you go and buy a treo at full price you are going to pay 4ish anyway.
So really...excluding the other apps that can run on them (I use ssh/sftp/ftp, video/audio, gps, doc viewers, and sadly more) all it has to do to really compete with treo/blackjack is email,web,some kind of doc viewer.
I love my treo 750 and blackjack each for different reasons, but you better be damn sure I'm going to buy an iphone the second it comes out if it does the above. oh and I need to be able to swap out sims.
would you rather the same (assuming) TCO on a treo/blackjack or iphone, that's really the question.
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