That's not the yearly service fee; it's the estimated total 2-year contract amount.
And while we're talking about bad writing, must Apple constantly be referred to as "the Cupertino-based company"? This is nothing more than a pointless verbal tic. It's irrelevant to the story whether Apple is based in Cupertino or Colchester, and anyone who cares already knows.
I agree with that last bit. Who cares which snotty California city they decided to pick for their headquarters. I could give a damn.
but you paid double for the actual phone than 3G buyers paid.
first gen iphone people tend to leave out that nugget of info when complaining about costs of the new plan.
so over two years of you using the first gen phone, for $10 less a month, I saved $200 on the initial cost of the phone. end of the day, over 2 years, the difference is only $40. so you are complaining about $40 over 2 years, or less then 2 bucks a month to have the newer phone...
you can't really lay it out like that.. it doesn't make much sense. he'd have to spend another 200 bucks on a new phone and then the difference would be $240 so it does make a difference.
How do you use your phone on another network then? Did you buy a factory unlocked one?
WTH are you talking about? I use AT&T Pay as you go for my iPhone (the original iPhone) with an unlimited data plan. The phone hasn't been hack, unlocked, etc. I just set it up to use pay as you go when I first set it up via a loophole in the original activation system.
Since the AT&T iPhone plan was never $55 and the original iPhone was never sold as factory unlocked it what else can one think but that you are using it unlocked?
Its $55 after all the fees. The actual plan is only $49/mo with unlimited data.
Two of the companies with iPhones in Australia have just dropped their lowest plans with an iPhone to $A59 from $A69.
With Vodafone $A59 gets you $A340 of calls, SMS etc and 200MB of data, the $A69 plan gets you the same in calls and they just increased the data from 250MB to 1GB, 8GB iPhones are free on 24 month contracts.
Data costs really suck here but a year ago 1GB of data would have cost $A150 on it's own so things are a lot better.
WTH are you talking about? I use AT&T Pay as you go for my iPhone (the original iPhone) with an unlimited data plan. The phone hasn't been hack, unlocked, etc. I just set it up to use pay as you go when I first set it up via a loophole in the original activation system.
did you get the $100 giftcard, or pay as you go?
you are getting caught up in your story a bit.
the pay as you go wasn't offered until the phone was out for a long time as a way to unload the stock for the 3g. the $100 giftcard was only offered to early adopters BEFORE the price drop, which was before it was offered as pay as you go... so one part of your story is false, so I'm guessing the whole damn thing is false.
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That's not the yearly service fee; it's the estimated total 2-year contract amount.
And while we're talking about bad writing, must Apple constantly be referred to as "the Cupertino-based company"? This is nothing more than a pointless verbal tic. It's irrelevant to the story whether Apple is based in Cupertino or Colchester, and anyone who cares already knows.
I agree with that last bit. Who cares which snotty California city they decided to pick for their headquarters. I could give a damn.
but you paid double for the actual phone than 3G buyers paid.
first gen iphone people tend to leave out that nugget of info when complaining about costs of the new plan.
so over two years of you using the first gen phone, for $10 less a month, I saved $200 on the initial cost of the phone. end of the day, over 2 years, the difference is only $40. so you are complaining about $40 over 2 years, or less then 2 bucks a month to have the newer phone...
you can't really lay it out like that.. it doesn't make much sense. he'd have to spend another 200 bucks on a new phone and then the difference would be $240 so it does make a difference.
How do you use your phone on another network then? Did you buy a factory unlocked one?
WTH are you talking about? I use AT&T Pay as you go for my iPhone (the original iPhone) with an unlimited data plan. The phone hasn't been hack, unlocked, etc. I just set it up to use pay as you go when I first set it up via a loophole in the original activation system.
It was deduced by your previous comment...
Since the AT&T iPhone plan was never $55 and the original iPhone was never sold as factory unlocked it what else can one think but that you are using it unlocked?
Its $55 after all the fees. The actual plan is only $49/mo with unlimited data.
With Vodafone $A59 gets you $A340 of calls, SMS etc and 200MB of data, the $A69 plan gets you the same in calls and they just increased the data from 250MB to 1GB, 8GB iPhones are free on 24 month contracts.
Data costs really suck here but a year ago 1GB of data would have cost $A150 on it's own so things are a lot better.
WTH are you talking about? I use AT&T Pay as you go for my iPhone (the original iPhone) with an unlimited data plan. The phone hasn't been hack, unlocked, etc. I just set it up to use pay as you go when I first set it up via a loophole in the original activation system.
did you get the $100 giftcard, or pay as you go?
you are getting caught up in your story a bit.
the pay as you go wasn't offered until the phone was out for a long time as a way to unload the stock for the 3g. the $100 giftcard was only offered to early adopters BEFORE the price drop, which was before it was offered as pay as you go... so one part of your story is false, so I'm guessing the whole damn thing is false.
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/...ing-rate-hike/
and whoops, looks like fantastic t-mobile will be forcing you to get that dataplan you've been skirting around all this time.
keep raging against the machine all you want... end of the day, you aren't saving a dime, and you can't accept that.