iPhone's out - who's getting one???
polycounter lvl 12
With the release of the 3g, the iphone is finally available in canada through Rogers and Fido. Unfortunately, it comes with a 3 year contract and those already under contract, like myself, have to wait till July 24th to hear some kind of announcement on how they're gonna handle that. So I was wondering, whos getting one, or already got one yesterday? I want to get one, and apparently I can apply my saved Fido dollars toward it which makes it even cheaper, but that's only if they get their act straight and let those already under contract to get one.
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I'll probably get one so I can be cool like everyone else. Though I'll just wait until I can buy one without signing my soul to the devil for $300 a month.
-caseyjones
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I know at least half a dozen people who went into O2 and bought a phone, then immediately unlocked it. They put in their sim cards and used their existing contracts including Pay as you go.
As far as I know the initial reports of the new iPhone required the contract to be set up in the shop to prevent this - can anyone confirm?
That's what they're doing in Canada. Setting up the contract in store that is.
Just seems like there's so much collusion in Canada with our service providers. I'm paying $91 a month for a plan that includes unlimited long distance, limited texting, and call display (no internet connection).
An iPhone plan will likely ring me up over $120 a month for the services I need.
I'd much rather get the Nokia N95 over an iPhone. I'll likely wait until the Google, and Nvidea phones come out (some much needed competition to drive down the price).
Though most of the cheaper plans require a once off up-front payment followed by a 12-24 month contract.
All the contracts need to be signed in-store as well and unlocked by the provider after paying an unlock fee.
-caseyjones
The plus side is, they will be sold out here for months... so when I pull the thing out, it's like I'm getting out a 10 foot wang.
The thing has proved it's worth already with push email and GPS. We use email for phones in Japan, have been for years (sms doesn't exist here). I actually got lost on saturday looking for a beach party, the GPS saved me a great deal of time and bother.
some of the apps could certainly be better though.. but some gems will pop out.
most of the apps require logins for their sites.. I don't really wanna sign up at 2000 places. and most of the apps' features can be done just with the regular maps tool.
I didn't think to read the fine print on the pricing and ended up paying $400 for it, because I already had a contract with AT&T, so I couldn't get a discount on a new phone until my existing contract runs out. They made a deal with apple and offered the $200 discount to people who purchased a first gen iphone, but for the rest of us looking to get our first iphone, we have to pay full price.
Not a big deal, I expected to pay that much anyway, but I rather liked the idea of paying half price.
The phone is incredibly helpful and easy to use, and there aren't many other options in the US.
And the pricing isn't bad at all. I end up paying $10 more a month than I had been paying previously, so it comes out to around $70 a month.
I'm not happy with the price increase going from $20 to $30 for unlimited data just because it's "3g", because my old phone had 3G and they were perfectly fine with the standard data plan. Clearly a way for AT&T to suck some extra money out of the iPhone users.
Thanks for the heads up!
I had some shitty luck updating my software to 2.0... i have my .mac mail on it, and when i upgraded it turned on contact syncing as well. I didnt have contacts uploaded to the .mac/me account... so it kindly erased every phone number in my phone. Not a very happy moose for a friday night and losing all your phone numbers.
The apps are pretty awesome, some could use work, but it has really made the phone a lot more "worth it." There are a few movie apps (one good one) that shows you theaters nearby w/ movies and show times. Only draw back is the ticket purchasing site doesnt work with the local theaters here
havent tried any games yet, but its super slick. Would love to see some sort of 3d model viewer app, and how many polys it could push... would be cool to keep some of your art and models around on your phone
http://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-Get-Broke-by-Buying-an-iPhone-29134947 - same as the one above I just noticed ...
http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1125.html
Sorta like "back in the day" you could buy a "cheap" computer if you signed on to AOL for a 2-3 year contract.
'Tis the reason I am not buying one.
my priceplan = £35 p/m - 1200 mins, 3000 txts + £5 for unlim interwebs (500mb fair usage).
and i got the samsung tocco.