On a tangentially-related note, the iPhone gets my gadget lust excited enough that I will be taking option number two.
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On a tangentially-related note, the iPhone gets my gadget lust excited enough that I will be taking option number two.
On a tangentially-related note, the iPhone gets my gadget lust excited enough that I will be taking option number two.
Well, my friend...you and I are in a similar boat. I'm a new Cingular customer as of 02/2007, so I am assuming I will have to pay $200 extra (aka full price) for the iPhone. Same price to pay as a customer who terminates his/her contract with another carrier.
Cingular/AT&T has been a good company thus far; haven't had any issues. Don't know what all the complaining was about back in January.
Unlikely. Apple will want to sort out the whole of Europe, or at least western Europe in one go. So it'll go to one of the big four, Vodafone, Orange, O2 or T-Mobile.
Im thinking that you might buy it in store, and then activate it and pay for the plans etc. on iTunes. So you go in, pay your $600, go home tickled pink, hop on iTunes, activate, and enjoy! IMHO
i doubt t-Mobile. I think t-mobile would only agree if they could have USA too. So that leaves vodafone, o2 and orange. Of the three i'd hope for o2, orange are expensive and voda have rubbish coverage (in my area, others may vary).
This is a really interesting take on the process, and I'm wondering if it could work. It could be a new way of doing things... Someone who knows about the process, enlighten us. Could this actually be feasable?
This seems actually pretty reasonable. Verizon's activation is almost all online based and I can't see why you wouldn't be able to activate the iPhone on iTunes. That would REALLY cut the time spent in store down. Just buy the hardware & you're out.
I've had excellent coverage with Vodafone everywhere that I've been, along with o2.
In my opinion, it'll Vodafone that gets the iPhone due to their huge European profile. I spend half of my year in Spain where the two main telecoms companies are Telefonica (owned by o2) and Vodafone ES. For when I'm in Spain, I have a Vodafone ES SIM and their coverage is unsurpassable. Even in somewhere like Extremadura which is pretty much a desert.