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Postby pastorables » May 24th, 2010, 10:31 pm

Recent reports have the Apple iPhone 3GS to be reduced to $97 at Wal-Mart with 2 year At&t contract. This comes on the heels of the leaked information concerning the expected arrival of the iPhone 4G ($299-$399) this summer.

Can anyone who uses iPhone share why I would enjoy getting in on the $97 deal and what I could expect to pay for monthly packages? Is the expense worth the benefits?

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Postby stevenson » May 25th, 2010, 5:08 am

I have the 3G and I'm do for an upgrade. I'm thinking about getting the 3GS. The camera reloution is better, you have video capabilities and a few other things.

I'll let everyone get the "new" iphone and wait for the price to drop down over the next couple of years.

The package price is the same as any other phone from at&t except you have a $30 a month internet charge. This is true for all smart phones though.

If you work outside the ministry, check & see if you can get a discount thru your work. We get 24% off our bill and another 40% off accessories.
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Postby MacUser » May 25th, 2010, 6:23 am

If you don't like AT&T.. You prolly want to wait and get the new one that's possibly on Version and now floating Sprint and has all the new advanced features ( yet to be determined ). Apparently Apple was able to get out of the exclusivity contract by giving them the iPad 3G contract only.

Again.. the AT&T plans are fairly self explain.. except you can save on bundling it all together if you have other AT&T expenses ( cable, dsl, telephone, etc ).

btw.. the biggest $$ waste is txting. You can do it thru Google just as easy and get a free secondary number.
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Postby stevenson » May 25th, 2010, 8:47 am

What advantage is there to the iphone being on the verizon network versus at&t? And if verizon is getting the iphone, what will happen to the droid?
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Postby free » May 25th, 2010, 10:56 am

Macuser...How do you text through Google? I'd love to get the texting charge off of my phone bill each month.
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Postby Who new » May 25th, 2010, 11:56 am

MacUser wrote:.... Apparently Apple was able to get out of the exclusivity contract by giving them the iPad 3G contract only.



Can you provide a source for this? It's news to me that the exclusivity contract has ended.

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Postby stevenson » May 25th, 2010, 1:37 pm

Last I knew, the exclusivity contract between at&t and apple was for 5 years starting in 2007. That would mean that verizon couldn't get the iphone until 2012.
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Postby Who new » May 25th, 2010, 2:05 pm

Never mind; I found it.

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Postby dolfan » May 25th, 2010, 2:19 pm

I read 2 weeks ago that Verizon won't have an iPhone this year. It was an article through Google's news page.
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Postby MacUser » May 26th, 2010, 4:35 am

free wrote:Macuser...How do you text through Google? I'd love to get the texting charge off of my phone bill each month.


You essentially setup a Google number and text thru it completely free. It can even forward to your email and then you can text simply by sending gmail. You essentially have a second number for your phone with free abilities.

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Note: All the rumors are keen speculation only from the way the other companies are positioning themselves.. such as... blocking off all employee vacations during the new iPhone launch times. etc etc.
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Postby Paully_44 » June 3rd, 2010, 7:59 am

MacUser wrote:If you don't like AT&T.. You prolly want to wait and get the new one that's possibly on Version


Doesn't look like Verizon has plans to support the iPhone.

LOS ANGELES - Despite relentless speculation about the imminent support of the iPhone and iPad in the U.S., there is no plan for Verizon to support the Apple mobile devices, in the "immediate future," John Johnson, a Verizon Wireless spokesperson told Beet.TV in this video interview.
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Postby stevenson » June 3rd, 2010, 2:44 pm

Didn't I say that? Lol!
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Postby Paully_44 » June 3rd, 2010, 9:31 pm

stevenson wrote:Didn't I say that? Lol!


just proving your "prophetic" word. :wink:
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Postby MacUser » June 4th, 2010, 3:24 am

Paully_44 wrote:
MacUser wrote:If you don't like AT&T.. You prolly want to wait and get the new one that's possibly on Version


Doesn't look like Verizon has plans to support the iPhone.

LOS ANGELES - Despite relentless speculation about the imminent support of the iPhone and iPad in the U.S., there is no plan for Verizon to support the Apple mobile devices, in the "immediate future," John Johnson, a Verizon Wireless spokesperson told Beet.TV in this video interview.


No iPhone? Absolutely Possible? This guy could be telling the gospel truth. Yet my skeptic memory tells me that all corporations deny what is coming NEXT to protect investment in existing phones and secure secrets.

Soooo... If I recall take just Steve Jobs.. said NO WAY to:

1) No video iPod. Steve Jobs assured us that there would be no video iPod. Saying "It's about the music, stupid,"

2) No iPhone.. Jobs firmly declared his intention to stay out of the PDA and phone space.

3) No iPad. Steve Jobs reassured us from reports dating back to 2002 that there was no chance of an Apple-branded tablet computer. No market for it was his comment. I think they just broke records?

4) No iBooks. in September of 2009, Steve Jobs expressly denied Apple's interest in moving into the e-book arena. iBooks was announced in January 2010.

So I'm just saying.. A NO.. can also mean absolutely YES. One interview doesn't make a hill of beans worth of difference :wink:

We just don't know.
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Postby RamboPreacher » June 4th, 2010, 10:19 am

there is still no apple tablet computer. :)
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