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join:2005-06-05
Washington, NJ | Patiently Waiting For this upgrade. Its what i've been waiting for. | |
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MattE
Obama '08
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC |  Much more palatable
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icp1
Premium
join:2000-10-13
Saint Louis, MO
clubs:
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| Re: Much more palatable said by MattE  :$200 is a much more palatable price and more in line with what the general populace is willing to pay I bet. The iPhone is not worth $399 or $499, no phone is. Clearly some people felt it was considering how many have been sold... | |
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Luker3
join:2004-10-09
Blacksburg, VA | Re: Much more palatable Well, some of them didn't think it was because a few months later they complained that the price went down after they got it, and then demanded a $100 refund.
Makes me was to just smack all of those people in the face. | |
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crippy
Premium
join:2005-05-17
some place
| said by MattE :$200 is a much more palatable price and more in line with what the general populace is willing to pay I bet. The iPhone is not worth $399 or $499, no phone is. the iphone is DEFINATELY not worth $399 or $499, but you are mistaken about the fact that no phone is really worth that much, well the phone im referring to here would be
Nokia n82, Nokia n95 8gb... the two top line N-Series phone by nokia kinda kick the shit out of all the phones that are out there
anyhoo, nice to see the price of iphone coming down to something more sensible, atleast for what its worth, maybe! | |
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join:2002-04-10
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| Re: Much more palatable Well the nokia n82 and n95 take true 30 FPS video quality that is crisp as hell. It has a nice built in full feature camera, etc. That phone is pretty amazing compared to the trash heap known as the IPhone. Apple seems to be able to put anything out, slap their name on it, and sell it in record numbers. It's good for them of course. However, I think too many people are caught into the name brand mania, versus the actual worth of the phone. My opinion. | |
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| ditka_b
Premium
join:2001-10-05
Barrington, IL | Blah it's all relative and as you have already done if you don't think it's worth it don't buy it. But you certainly don't need to whine either lol | |
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| lefty1
join:2002-10-25
Clay, NY
| said by MattE :$200 is a much more palatable price and more in line with what the general populace is willing to pay I bet. The iPhone is not worth $399 or $499, no phone is. I agree. I wonder how this will affect the pricing of other yet-to-be-released high-end phones, such as the Nokia N95? There's a lot of them available already on eBay, and surely many more to come. | |
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AdamB
join:2001-01-07
Westerville, OH | About time? I really don't see why AT&T didn't do this before. But now that they see the iPhone can sell like hotcakes at full retail price, it should really explode with a subsidy. I know I plan on getting one when my Verizon contract expires. | |
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R4M0N
Brazilian Soccer Ownz Joo
join:2000-10-04
Glen Allen, VA | Call me when it's free I don't pay for cellphones. | |
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| Skippy25
join:2000-09-13
Hazelwood, MO
| Re: Call me when it's free I am with you on this. It is ridiculous what they charge for phones when they cost a fraction of the retail price to actually produce. But I guess as there are enough idiots out there willing to spend the money, they will continue to over charge them. What killed me the most is when soo many of these idiots then bitched about them suddenly dropping the price a little while back. | |
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fcisler
Premium
join:2004-06-14
Riverhead, NY | Re: Call me when it's free I'm going to have phone service for 2 years, actually more than that.
I know AT&T and like their service.
Why wouldn't I want to be "forced" into a contract if it saves me $200+? | |
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Rob
In Deo speramus
Premium
join:2001-08-25
Kendall, FL
·Comcast
·AT&T Southeast
| Re: Call me when it's free said by fcisler :I'm going to have phone service for 2 years, actually more than that. I know AT&T and like their service. Why wouldn't I want to be "forced" into a contract if it saves me $200+? I never said you shouldn't, I was relating my experience. I like to know that I have the power to transfer my service to another wireless carrier if my current provider isn't performing as expected - without any ETF. | |
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CylonRed
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-06
Bloom County
·Speakeasy
| while I do pay for a phone - I never pay more than $70 and I will keep it till it dies/breaks and not a moment sooner. because of that - I am contract free and have been for over a year with Verizon.
I wish I could get back with Cincy Bell since they do not have any contracts at all but since my IL's are on my plan and they have a contract, we have good service, and we use virtually no minutes since all we do is call each other - no reason to switch. | |
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nuftjedi
formerly nuftcrow
join:2000-09-11
Baltimore, MD
clubs: | maybe just maybe for $200 I'll pick one up | |
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tiger72
NexaT duorP
Premium
join:2001-03-28
Kansas City, MO
clubs:
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| Re: maybe said by nuftjedi :just maybe for $200 I'll pick one up I'll just wait on an unlocked one on ebay | |
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odreian615
join:2006-01-18
Chicago, IL
·AT&T Midwest
| ATT just give me a N95 or N96 for 200 bucks
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tnroroc
Let's Rock
join:2001-04-25
Matawan, NJ | Re: ATT just give me a N95 or N96 for 200 bucks I have never seen one of those in the flesh, but it IS a sexy looking phone. | |
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S_engineer
join:2007-05-16
Chicago, IL
| Re: ATT just give me a N95 or N96 for 200 bucks said by tnroroc :I have never seen one of those in the flesh, but it IS a sexy looking phone. "Sexy phone"??? You need to get out more! | |
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Let's Rock
join:2001-04-25
Matawan, NJ
| Re: ATT just give me a N95 or N96 for 200 bucks The fact that this was your only post to the thread, and it had no connection to the subject, only further proves your not grasping the intent of my post.
Troll on.
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ArgyleDSL
Premium
join:2002-07-04
Oakland Gardens, NY | AT&T raising Data Rates to compensate I read somewhere that they may raise data rates to compensate for the lower phone price. | |
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| Joe12345678
join:2003-07-22
Des Plaines, IL
| Re: AT&T raising Data Rates to compensate said by ArgyleDSL :I read somewhere that they may raise data rates to compensate for the lower phone price. Iphone data $40 /m + $5 /h or more for a text plan. | |
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Pirate515
Premium
join:2001-01-22
Brooklyn, NY
| said by ArgyleDSL :I read somewhere that they may raise data rates to compensate for the lower phone price. Yes, they might do it. They might also impose a 5 GB cap on 3G data plans. I wonder what the current prices for the data plans are. One of my co-workers has a BlackJack which he got about a year ago and he says that he is paying $40 a month for 3G data. One of my friends got Motorola Q9 around the same time I got myself an iPhone (last December) and says that he's paying $20 a month for 3G (no SMS though). I'm paying $20 a month for EDGE on iPhone plus 200 SMS.
Funny thing is that you could have always gotten a current version of iPhone for $200 less. All you had to do is find a mom-and-pop store that resells AT&T and was offering them. The only catch was that a $200 discount would be added to the Early Termination Fee. I believe that if you buy an iPhone from Apple and activate it online or buy it from an official AT&T store, you would pay full retail price but ETF would be $125 and pro-rated. If you buy it from a mon-and-pop store, the ETF would be $325. Of course, if you are planning to stick with AT&T for these 2 years, why not get it from a reseller for less?
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orange
I love oranges
Premium
join:2008-04-16
Tucson, AZ | Re: AT&T raising Data Rates to compensate AT&T doesn't allow their resellers to sell iPhones. You have to go to an AT&T corporate store or an Apple Store. | |
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mike12806
join:2007-08-28
Milton, MA | value well, give me a nokia app that can integrate with iTunes and I'd be all over that N96...otherwise I'm keeping my iphone. I mean, a good standalone iPod is 200 bucks...I don't see "rip off" at $299 or even $399. | |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA
| Hm... Neat, but I'm keeping my iPod touch- most places where I'd go online have WiFi anyway, and at&t's coverage has never been good where I tend to use my phone (this is based more off observations of friends, I've never had an at&t phone myself). The touch is thinner already, too... | |
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Fluker
join:2005-04-07
West Lafayette, IN
·WMIS Internet
| Curious I bet right now that Apple gets to keep a good part of the kicker instead of AT&T when you activate an iPhone. It wouldn't surprise me at all that instead of the subsidy helping customers, the money just goes to Apple.
Now here's the thing I've never understood though - clearly quite a few iPhones are bought, unlocked and used on other networks. Why hasn't AT&T just required that you are either a customer or become one when buying a phone from them? | |
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join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA
| Re: Curious Apple and at&t do require that you become a customer- people who unlock their phones and use them on other networks have to bypass the phone's security to do so, and Apple software updates tend to make unlocked phones unusable... but that doesn't stop people from doing it. | |
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join:2005-04-07
West Lafayette, IN
·WMIS Internet
| Re: Curious right.
I'm wondering why they don't simply refuse to sell phones to people who don't have/or refuse to get contracts.
Is it some sort of in boarding to require a contract when selling a device?
Seems like unlocking would just about be a moot point if AT&T required you to have a contract before they let you buy the phone. | |
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Ulmo
join:2005-09-22
San Jose, CA
·Comcast
·SONIC.NET
| Finally, an iPhone that isn't just crap. Aha. If I add a line to the family plan in my household, that'll probably be in the top five list of choices of what we get next. It looks ugly, though; I wouldn't want to be seen actually having it with me. It looks dumb. Hopefully they'll upgrade the look to be more machine-looking, or something.
HSDPA, GPS, and =$200 were prettymuch requirements for that phone. We were never going to get it in its current retarded format at the outrageous prices it was set at, especially with a 2 year contract! | |
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crapmac
LIVE 105 - new - music - now.
join:2007-05-03
United State
·Comcast
| OMG! I would so buy this phone!
only $200 for something that nice?
ATT coverage is just about the best in the Bay Area, and I love the apple iPhone, it used to be just too expensive...
ooh i can't wait!
HSDPA is the same as 3G, right? - just a different way to say it?
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dustman81
join:2002-05-28
Stow, OH | Sweetness This works out quite well. My contract with Sprint expires next month and with a 3G (HSDPA) version of the iPhone set to be released and a $200 discount from AT&T next month, looks like I'm heading to the AT&T store in June. | |
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@ms.us | what about next feb. I guess when tv switches to digital and AT&T aquire their newly purchased spectrum they will be releasing another iphone that will work in the 700 mhz range?? | |
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