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iPhone 13 Pro Max Is this iPhone 13 Pro Max cheap?

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My telco made me this offer below. All prices are pre-tax
  • iPhone 13 Pro Max 128GB
  • Unlimited text/calls & 2GB data
  • Amortization + service = $52.82/month for 24 months
  • $0.44/GB excess data rate after the 1st 2GB
Why so little data? Due to work from home I used less than 0.2GB/month for the last 19 months. I wasted over $200 of unused data.

By comparison prepaid data rate is $0.18/GB. That rate may come to postpaid when 6G starts deployment by 2029. By then I hope all 2G (1991) and 3G (1998) networks worldwide have been decomissioend so their frequencies can be used for higher performance per Watt 6G (2030s) or even 7G (2040s) cellular data.
 
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That iPhone purchased from Apple costs $1099USD outright. You can do the math as to whether the carrier deal looks good to you.
You’ll be locked into a 2 year contract and have excessive overage charges if you exceed 2GB of data/month.
Likely if you want to bail out of the deal mid term, you’ll get hit with a big cancellation fee to cover the cost of the phone
 
You shouldn’t be paying any more than $45.79/month for the iPhone 13 Pro Max 128 GB. Anything higher is a ripoff unless you have truly terrible credit maybe. With that “deal” you end up paying $169 over retail after all the payments.
 
Limeybastid said:
OPs figure includes service from telco
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Thank you for reading my post. Added clarification for others :)

By comparison pre-tax prepaid SIM data rate is $0.18/GB. That may come to postpaid when 6G starts deployment by 2029.
 
Perhaps not a complete rip-off but not particularly fantastic either, over the 24 month period you're paying $1.267,68. $1.099 for the phone leaves you with $168,68 for the contract itself ($7,02 per month). I'd rather pay for the phone up-front and get a decent contract, especially since we might start getting back into the office more from now on.

I'm not sure what a good modern contract gives you in the US, but even here in Germany (where we're notoriously far behind in terms of cell phone contracts and coverage) I can get 10 GB data for 10€ / month. I'd assume you can probably get an even better contract in the US.
 
John981 said:
Perhaps not a complete rip-off but not particularly fantastic either, over the 24 month period you're paying $1.267,68. $1.099 for the phone leaves you with $168,68 for the contract itself ($7,02 per month). I'd rather pay for the phone up-front and get a decent contract, especially since we might start getting back into the office more from now on.

I'm not sure what a good modern contract gives you in the US, but even here in Germany (where we're notoriously far behind in terms of cell phone contracts and coverage) I can get 10 GB data for 10€ / month. I'd assume you can probably get an even better contract in the US.
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No, everything internet and network plan wise is more expensive in USA.
 
The storage size needed for ProRes video when it becomes available requires 256GB minimum storage. I believe that the read/write speed of the 128GB is slower and will filled up faster that accounts for this requirement. If you have data limits with your ISP and generally use a lot of data, the plan doesn't seem to be adequate.
 
I paid USD1300 for 128gb 13PM
And paying 40gb 4G plan at USD15/mth
I find 4G good enough, 5G is taxing on the battery life
 
I went through the same carrier's plans again and found something odd.

For the same total monthly fee of $52.82/month (amortization & service) there is a different plan that gets me 2x the data at 4GB.
  • iPhone 13 Pro Max 128GB
  • Unlimited text/calls & 4GB data
  • $0.44/GB excess data rate after the 1st 4GB
I hate waste so the $0.44/GB excess data rate after the 1st 4GB is very appealing.

Rival telco has their data rate at $0.88/GB and I have to manually activate it.

Since 2008 I have never exceeded 10GB much less 26GB of data.

If I use an extra
  • 10GB I'd spend $4.40
  • 40GB I'd spend $17.60
  • 50GB I'd spend $22.00
  • 100GB I'd spend $44.00 & the telco will cut me off
Prepaid data is $0.18/GB. Before 6G comes out I hope one day this will be the rate for postpaid.
 
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