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- krampo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+30FYI, here in Europe it's quite common to pay $400-500 for the phone (of course for that price it comes without contract)
- cookiebearo, on 10/11/2007, -2/+14btw, not a forum
-=|no sig required - timusca, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11Much of the iPhone relies on Cingular/AT&T's network to operate - such as the visual voice mail... so you might be able to get it working on another network, but it will probably be crippled as far as phone options go.
- timusca, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9You never know... Apple can be very sneaky. There's a possibility that the $499/$599 price plan was set when the iPhone was first released, and has since been deemed a bad idea. There's also a possibility that there will be a discount for 2-year contracts because of this - making the prepaid discovery valid evidence.
Who knows... if they do decide to stick with the high pricing, I'll bet they lower the price within 6 months when they realize its too expensive and sales are not what they expected. I'd buy one if it were $299. But with that kind of pricing, they've lost me as a customer and I'm sure many others. - benguild, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Okay sir.
- KANSUO, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6For $20/month you can get the Media Max 200 bundle which offers unlimited data, text, etc
...just so you know - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Verizon is going to be wishing they took the iPhone deal from Apple.
These phones are going to fly off the shelves and Sprint and Verizon are going to wish they were selling them too. - MinnesotaTwins, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5I wasn't planning on buying the iPhone, however if they had a prepaid phone, with some sort of data options like Virgin mobile does for 1$ a day. I would buy this in a second.
My work pays for my blackberry, but I would like to get my wife a decent phone, that I can play with at home. Right now she has a 20 dollar virginmobile phone (yuck) but that is all she needs. She spends 20 dollars ever 3 months. - turpenine, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5they have a lot more government programs than us. IE, healthcare, housing, and aid.
- saleem, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5you have 25% sales tax??? Maybe you have less income etc compared to the US? IDK.
- eenuuk, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8seems unlikely. Think it is more likely that it is a standard system entry as detailed in the report.
Still very interesting though - Orup70, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5E.g. today's prices in Sweden:
Palm Treo 680 – $724 (without sales tax: $579)
Nokia N95 – $1005 (without sales tax: $804)
Blackberry 8100V Pearl – $567 (without sales tax: $454) - dweeb79, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7I love to drop my phone all the time. My v360 looks like hell but it keeps on going. If a phone can't survive a drop then I can't justify owning it.
- fancypantscz, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6Here in Prague I can walk 300m from my flat and in 15 minutes have any phone unblocked for 10 bucks. After that you take out the old SIM card buy a new one from any service provider, slide it in and bobs your uncle. When I was living in the states I didn't think much of it but if my service provider here suddenly started charging me for RECEIVING calls in addition to making calls, I would drop them in a heartbeat.
Americans are getting reamed by their governmentally anointed telecommunications industry. Its a wonder they haven't clogged up the interwebs yet with all that ointment.
Oh and by the way... Boycott AT&T!!!
That is unless your ok with the NSA listening in on all your calls and surfing.
http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/att/ - Cybrwolf, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3@ hdtvdust
Sorry but your wrong! Too hell with Verizon, and my contract be damned!
I'm switching to AT&T and getting the iPhone! - SteveMax, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3The world thanks them for not accepting it: this means the phone is GSM, so it can be sold everywhere.
- chewy5000, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3tisk, tisk
It's AT&T now - turpenine, on 10/11/2007, -4/+6I just saw a commercial for mammograms and she touches her boobs
it was awesome - dichter, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Pre-paid plan is a good way to get the "switcher" if you will - people that locked into Sprint or Verizon for the time being can now "try" iPhone risk free - as long as you are willing to fork out the $money.
- selectodude, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2dasilva: Cingular requires a 1 year contract, even if you bring your own hardware.
- fancypantscz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2@hdtvdust
Hey! Yer right... Just callin em like I sees em from my point of view and thought someone might be interested.
AT&T still sucks for misleading and abusing their customers, for their monopolistic business practices, and for contributing to the corruption of the federal government. - superkendall, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2But is that bundle available to pay-as-you go users?
- turpenine, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1the $500 price is not subsidized, current cingular customers can get the phone without a contract renewal, the problem is the phone is just so locked into cingular you could never transfer it.
- cleverboy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I thought we put that one to bed during the whole "iPhone is slippery" nonesense:
"An Apple exec was obliging enough to toss an early model on a carpeted floor for me, where it bounced a few times, came to a stop and kept on ticking."
http://blogs.business2.com/apple/2007/04/apple_iphones_s.html - duntuk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1yeah it's available pre-paid... we're activating it and got declined, and was offered prepaid (gophone)...
- syafthegeek, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This is a tricky part. Choosing the best plan for the iPhone.
- duntuk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1took a screenshot of the pre-paid plan...
posted to my myspace photos:
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=2866088&albumID=449549&imageID=13089201
http://a690.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/93/l_6509086ff496de75979a20e220870919.png
if it's not viewable, then just click through my pics in my profile: http://www.myspace.com/duntuk - LilRabbitFooFoo, on 08/11/2008, -0/+1As long as it is on AT&T/Cingular, I will NEVER be getting this.
- dasilva333, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1ok so simply the question posed is this: 'why would i want to sign a 2 yr contract for an iphone @ 599 when i can 'sign up' for a prepaid plan w/ an iphone for the same price, turn around and use that phone on a post paid account, no contract created = revenue lost ?
edit: do you guys remember the article on digg a while back that said something to the effect that there was possibly going to be a $150 discount on the original price tag w/ a contract? - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1YEah...two year from now. Cingular is not going to give up that sweet exclusivity deal. And their Pay As You Go plan is not as lucrative
- adage, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This really means nothing. You can buy ANY of cingulars phones as these three options... If you choose, you could buy their most expensive phones, in this case the iPhone, and activate it as prepaid. Only difference is on prepaid/PYP you dont get the regular subsidized price on the phone (discount).
- aelias, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2This is standard practice for cingular. You can activate any cingular phone as a pre-paid phone, provided you pay full price for the hardware. No Contract=No Discount.
Good luck with the 1 cent per Kilobyte data fees tho. *Shudder* - Wilddigi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1iPhone on the brain.
- superkendall, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Well I've also dropped my iPod a great deal and it keeps going - and that has a hard drive. I see no reason why the iPhone could not sustain some falling.
- superkendall, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I would greatly prefer Pay-As-You-Go, as I use that today. But what has vexed me in the past is that often such plans have greater limits on what you can do - for example, no data or ability to enable international calling for when traveling overseas.
The Hybrid plan might be nice though... - superkendall, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1It would mean something if true though, as it had been said only prepaid was an option with the iPhone - so it would indeed mean something if you could use any Cingular plan with the iPhone.
- masskurec, on 03/01/2009, -0/+0AT&T are monopolists
http://xptweak.net - turpenine, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1using it on another network would cripple it to pointless
- Anarchyx2, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1After the whole fake internal Apple email, you'd think people would learn their lesson. Now you have some soon to be ex-AT&T employee posting AT&T accounting codes screen shots??? When will people learn??
- bluets67, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Correction to my earlier statement. There are two "prepaid" plans. One is GoPhone: Pick Your Plan and the other is GoPhone: Pay As You Go. The Pay As You Go has very limited coverage compared to the Pick Your Plan, which is more expensive.
- buyiphone, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Yes, those screen shots can make sense after the first release of the Iphone.
http://www.buyiphoneprepaid.com/ - bluets67, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Before considering Cingular's prepaid plan, which is different than the Pay As You Go plan, you ought to check into the coverage area. We had the prepaid plan for several years and coverage was good which included roaming. But at the end of March, 2007 they switched to the GSM system and we found out, to our surprise, that the roaming areas were not covered anymore. In fact, we had no access at all in those areas.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2fancypantscz...honestly, stickto your own country becuase you have no ***** idea what you are talking about and you come across as extremely ignorant.
Overhead costs are MUCH bigger in the US because our country is a few dozen times bigger than most European countries. That is why we pay more for calls. We have a far greater tower to subscriber ratio than you do. - mandarin, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Ugh Treo for that much? I know people who are willing to part with their Treo for a new phone for 200$
- mal1964, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1phones don't make money air time is the money maker
- DiggingDeep, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2A better question would be if an iPhone owner can survive after it gets scratched.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -6/+2And you are the expert? If you really think people are switching their carriers just to get the iPhone, you are not prepared for life in reality.
- joltjake, on 10/11/2007, -7/+2anything to get people to buy that overpriced monstrosity.
- trogdor8667, on 10/11/2007, -7/+1I honestly don't know... I'd probably go in for the Hybrid option, but there's no way in hell I'd do a 2 year contract on Cingular.
- s6t9eve, on 10/11/2007, -8/+1Okay enough with the Iphone stories, we allready know it awesome and where to find Apple rumours. So everything relating ro the Iphone doesn't have to reach the front page...
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