So...how are YOU getting out of your current contract?

[Lord Blackadder]

I don't really care much about my phone...it's a tool to me, nothing more. For the record, I have a three year-old Nokia 6010, a phone I imagine few of you would be willing to be caught dead with.

Still, the iPhone is pretty cool - even I, a self-professed cell phone luddite, have a small desire to get one. There's really only one thing in the way - the Mac Mini. My daily use computers are all G4s, so I can't justify buying a $600 phone when I'm due for a double Mac upgrade (laptop, tower) within a year or so. Still, when my contract expires I'll have a look at whatever Apple phones are available...if they have a cheaper phone out as is rumored to happen I may go for it.

For the record, cell phone companies are thieves. The way they do business is predatory and it irritates me as much as the RIAA. F them.

 

[theman5725]

Waiting for my contract to end in 2008. Hopefully by then there will be an iPhone price cut.

 

[MovieCutter]

For the record, cell phone companies are thieves. The way they do business is predatory and it irritates me as much as the RIAA. F them.

Truer words have never been spoken.

 

[MattyMac]

I'm one of the lucky ones who is with cingular currently having an expired contract. Just waiting for the day I can sign my name on the iPhone dotted line

 

[OKComputer]

sell my V for 200 on craigslist and pay 175 early termination fee

 

[wmmk]

I'm on cingular and hope to get an iPhone in a when my current contract expires (I think that'll be october of '08) and I'll be on my HS debate team, which travels nationally on a weekly basis.

 

[Koodauw]

I am already with cingular, and my contract is up in april. Perfect timing if you ask me. Good luck to all of you who are under contract till past june.

 

[theman5725]

I'm locked with Verizon until 2008, so I'm just going to wait and see how stuff has changed by then. Hopefully a price drop if anything.

 

[BenHoleton]

i have Verizon and they keep dropping my calls here in nashville. I am self-employed and my cell is my livelyhood. I plan on raising cain to get out of my contract without paying. Cingular seems to work here in nashville, so it all seems perfect.

 

[Jedi128]

For the record, cell phone companies are thieves. The way they do business is predatory and it irritates me as much as the RIAA. F them.

Truer words have never been spoken.

Damn Straight.

That is why I have some pay as go from T-Mobile. I buy all my minutes when ever I want and pay zero per month. Not going to let those companies control me! If I feel like spending $600 in June (or will it be April?) maybe I'll get one. I really want one, but its soooo expensive (not to mention being controlled by some company).

Just one other comment, someone mentioned the phone being priced $200 less by cingular.... I think Apple and Cingular both confirmed that that will not happen. Apple is not letting Cingular reduce the price.... there was a rumor about this suggesting that cingular would give free service away instead. Also, I highly doubt Apple will let the phone be unlocked. It is not their style to whore their products out to other companies. I was surprised Steve signed any type of deal with any of the current U.S. brands.... I thought he would make his own service before letting anyone else touch his precious creations...

 

[miTunes75]

i have Verizon and they keep dropping my calls here in nashville. I am self-employed and my cell is my livelyhood. I plan on raising cain to get out of my contract without paying. Cingular seems to work here in nashville, so it all seems perfect.

Hey Ben: I'm with cingular and I'm in Nashville. It works perfectly here. There is a dead spot on i-65 between 95 & 98, but besides that - I have NOT had a problem yet

 

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