iPhone 4!

[Tantive]

Gadget Junkies!

 

[disregard]

The 3GS in Australia costs minimum of AU$799!!! You guys have it way better

Perhaps when you just buy the phone?

Because when I go to the Apple website, 3GS are like $599, whereas when you get an AT&T contract, it drops down to $199.

 

[swordpath]

And how much more expensive.

I'll be one of the last people to buy a smartphone. I don't like being forced to buy data plans.

Why would you have a smart phone without a data plan?

 

[raz]

I just bought one of these 2 months ago:

Although over a year old, but I can't live without the sliding keyboard. Durn T-Mobile is $80/month for phone + unlimited data/text. I didn't realize how many possibilities for programs Windows Mobile brought. Is it possible to marry your phone?

 

[InsatiableCuriosity]

Perhaps when you just buy the phone?

Because when I go to the Apple website, 3GS are like $599, whereas when you get an AT&T contract, it drops down to $199.

So the reporting on the prices is slightly skewed and needs to come with a rider to the effect that this is a data plan purchase price??? Reporters should be more careful!

 

[Lady_X]

omg i want video chat so bad!

 

[swordpath]

Have decided to pre-order on the 15th, when they begin taking pre-orders. Phone drops into the market on the 24th, and I will be picking up first thing.

Stokkkeeedddd.

 

[FDG]

Apple sux.

 

[swordpath]

 

[disregard]

So the reporting on the prices is slightly skewed and needs to come with a rider to the effect that this is a data plan purchase price??? Reporters should be more careful!

Actually it was my interpretation that it would only be so cheap with an AT&T plan. Perhaps it is $199/$299 no contract, but those prices have historically been associated with the purchase of a plan.

 

[Geoff]

I wasn't nuts about having to pay $30/mo for data either, but I'm such a disorganized slob I really needed something to offload my brain into. Hence the iPhone, which is great for me because it can be everything: phone, calendar, music player, GPS, instant access to all human knowledge, etc. So I just have to not lose it and remember to put appointments into it, and I'm golden.

When I switched to AT&T from Verizon, I asked for a minutes plan that isn't advertised anymore. So we get something like 550 minutes to share between two phones and I added data for my iPhone, all for about $85/mo, which was about $10 less than we had been paying for just minutes to share between two phones at Verizon. We were able to get away with fewer minutes at AT&T because of the rollover thing- we have periods of heavy usage, but much of the time we're not really using them that much.

Whoah really? I pay $20 a month for a month of unlimited data, unlimited txts and still have the $20 to spend on calls (maybe an hour or so). And that's on a sim only, not tied, contract free monthly top up when I feel like it!

US data market is suckage.

 

[Rainne]

Actually it was my interpretation that it would only be so cheap with an AT&T plan. Perhaps it is $199/$299 no contract, but those prices have historically been associated with the purchase of a plan.

lol...$199/$299 w/o a plan...

Ok there.

 

[swordpath]

Thats definitely the price with a plan/upgrade (contract renewal). I talked to a guy at AT&T yesterday. Without a plan the phones are like 499 and 599, or whatever.

 

[disregard]

I'm due to receive a call at 7am on Tuesday to pre-order mine.

The only question that lingers is... black or white?

I'm thinking white.

 

[disregard]

I mean, look at it.

 

[Lateralus]

Why would you have a smart phone without a data plan?

Wifi

 

[swordpath]

Makes sense.

Disregard, I'll probably go white myself and then get a black glove case for it. Big pimpin'.

 

[Ivy]

I'll probably get white because I think fingerprints don't show up on it as much, but I have my white 3G in a red case and I like that a lot, so I'll probably put something colorful on my 4G when I get it.

 

[disregard]

Too bad 4G cases aren't out yet. I would very much like to peruse them.

 

[Gish]

iPhone 4, not 4G, 4G implies something completely different.