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Stupid for college students to get iPhone?

If you don't mind paying for the data it's nice getting school emails pushed to the iPhone, since professors love canceling class at the last minute by email. Also, the blackboard app isn't bad.
 
What if school wifi all of a sudden slows to a crawl or gets shut down for maintenance? That's where 3G comes in. Trust me on the maintenance one, it's happened before.
 
Most people in college with an iPhone might have their parents paying for it anyways. And you won't be spending all your time on campus anyways, college is about doing so much more with the opportunities you get. I have one and I'm going to be a freshman next year, it'll sure come handy, but like everyone else said, you could just get a iPod Touch (16 GB at least) if you plan on using it a lot.
 
kousuke18 said:
lol my point is that why spend the extra money on getting a iphone without a data plan when he already has a ipod touch and a cellphone in which he can make calls/text. I guess for portability... but the question is, is it worth it to spend so much money just for portability.
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Carry one device instead of two. Would be able to sell the ipod touch and pay for part of the 2G iphone. Absolutely worth it.
 
I have an ipod touch. Id rather pay $30 extra for a 3gs than to get an iphone 2g... or w/e it is.
 
Krafty said:
Well, money doesnt grow on the tree in our yard.
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That's why I said "get a job" and not "go pick some money from a tree".

To each his own; it's worth extra $30 to me; and honestly, it seems like I had more money in college than now when I have a real job and tons of obligations! :eek: Hope you figure out the way to afford extra $30, OP, because the data bit is really worth it, imho.
 
Yeah, OK. I'll just walk outside and get a job. Cause I havent been trying to do that all summer or anything >_>
 
runandsurf09 said:
If you don't mind paying for the data it's nice getting school emails pushed to the iPhone, since professors love canceling class at the last minute by email. Also, the blackboard app isn't bad.
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But ill have wifi for all of this
 
i doubt you will be in wifi 24 hours a day , 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. What about breaks, weekends, trips? and even on campus, you have wifi in every single spot?
 
nope. why would it be stupid? u bring ur iphone evrywhere u go, not juz campus.. even some campuses encourage iphones.. :)
 
Do what I do. Go to a crappy college that doesn't provide wifi everywhere then your iPhone will be come infinitely useful.
 
I don't care about the wifi part. Then go buy an ipod touch and a cell phone with you rather than carrying just one single device.
 
I'm in college and I have an iPhone. Yes, there is WiFi on campus but you're not on campus 24/7. You don't want a iBrick when you leave campus (i mean, what good is a phone that only makes calls? ;)) Get the data.

Then again, my parents are paying for it.
 
SeanMcC said:
I'm in college and I have an iPhone. Yes, there is WiFi on campus but you're not on campus 24/7. You don't want a iBrick when you leave campus (i mean, what good is a phone that only makes calls? ;)) Get the data.

Then again, my parents are paying for it.
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Correct, what if you were going to target or somewhere in an unfamiliar city with no wifi? Data, man.
 
It's not stupid if you can afford it. But this helps prove my point of an iPhone without data is NOT an iPod touch. Why some idiots can't figure out that the iPod touch not having a cell phone built in is a huge difference is beyond me. That's like saying a MacBook is the same as an iMac even though you can carry the MacBook everywhere.
 
Even though you don't have data with an iPhone, you can still text and make calls. Texts run through the cell network, not data.
 
Boesky said:
On college there is practically Wifi everywhere. So you are essentially paying $30 a month for nothing. You can just use Wifi and then for phone calls you can have a typical cell phone. Is there anyway to opt out of the $30 a month? Data plan, I believe...
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Yes. Put your sim in another phone and call ATT at tell them to remove the iphone data plan. After that switch the sim back to the iphone. I did this for the past 10 months, until today when I added the data plan back. Good luck.
 
I thought this, but I still got sick of having to call and text on my crappy cell phone, not to say carry two devices around instead of one.

Depends what it's worth to you, I suppose.
 
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