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3G iPhone

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Who's getting one!?
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Me! For free too. lol

How long have I've been saying that, right...

PS: I was just about to post about this. :D
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Depends entirely on the cost/contract lock-in. If it's bundled with a £25/month 12 month contract.. sure. If it's bundled with a £50/month 2 year contract.. hell no.
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JellyFish wrote:Me! For free too. lol

How long have I've been saying that, right...

PS: I was just about to post about this. :D
It's free for everyone :S
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I'd love to have one. My only problem is: I hate calling/being called. I do have a mobile but a prepaid and charge it for like $40/year (yes, that's right, year). So no way am I going to get a contract for $50/month for 2 yrs..
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I wish I had no friends :)
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I'm with matthijs. I've worked in the communications industry before so I know how varied the prices are. I have a prepaid phone through T-Mobile and pay about 10 cents per minute. I probably average about $25 a month in usage unless I am traveling. Prepaid phone service is much more cost effective provided you don't need unlimited minutes or have heavy usage.
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panic! wrote:I wish I had no friends :)
You do? :)

No serious, I just prefer seeing people in person. Certainly with friends and family. Sent an email to make an appointment (handy, now both of us have the appointment in writing) and see each other live. And in case it takes too much time to meet in person (say for most business related meetings), email is much better then phone. After talking 20 minutes on phone you have to really be very very careful not to forget anything having been discussed. Maybe you even have to sent an email to confirm things. O wait, might have as well sent an email in the first place ;)

And, as astions says, it's also a cost-thing. having a fixed telephone line (actually through my internet connection) I pay maybe 2 cts/min to call. Mobile is like 10 times that rate.

Luckily the iPhone is so much more then a phone, so maybe if I would get one without a contract it'd be very useful
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onion2k wrote:Depends entirely on the cost/contract lock-in. If it's bundled with a £25/month 12 month contract.. sure. If it's bundled with a £50/month 2 year contract.. hell no.
Its gonna be available on PAYG if you don't want a contract. This is hopefully what i will buy, then unlock it to use on the carrier of my choise
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panic! wrote:I wish I had no friends :)
I'll be your no friend.
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I use 7-11 speakout wireless with my jailbroken iPhone, and I average about $15 / month without limiting my usage in any way.

I don't have data service, but there's enough wifi in Toronto that it's not an issue... certainly not an extra $50 / month worth of issue.

Data in Canada is prohibitively expensive:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kieranhuggins/428284077/.
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Maybe america is cheaper than the UK on prepay.

Here is a comparison of prepay vs contract
T Mobile for example:


Contract:

1200 Minutes - Unlimited Texts = 2.5p a minute + free texts.

If you're a loser like me and send over 1000 texts a month that's extra value because 1000 texts would cost over £100.

price: £30.

Prepay

I would get around 150 minutes and 70 texts for the same price

so it's either 1200 minutes and Unlimited texts OR 150 minutes and 70 texts for the same price.

:)
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Clearly PAYG is a silly option if you use your phone a lot. On the other hand, for me who talks for about 10 minutes a month and sends about 3 text messages a year any contract would be much more expensive.
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If I didn't already have the phone I would so get it. It has been totally worth it.

My plan (for my wife and I on a shared account) costs me about $90 a month. I can live with that. When we were on separate plans we were paying about $80 per month ($40 each). Now I get unlimited data and have yet to be charged for texts (except a few international tests I did, but those were only $0.25 each).
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"Buyer's Remorse"

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