None in the US. AT&T charges no more to use an iPhone on its network than it charges to use any other brand of PDA/Smartphones.
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Total cost: iPhone 3GS, Palm Pre, and Android
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Though the comparison chart may be slightly inaccurate based on the specific plan details one chooses, I think it sums up rather nicely why Apple needs to expand the iPhone beyond AT&T. The cost of their plans is the most often cited reason for people refusing to switch. I have little doubt that if the iPhone were available across both major networks Sprint/Verizon & Att/TMobile that it would increase tremendously in ownership. People can bash Sprint or Verizon all they want, but they have loyal customers who are not willing to lose the benefits they have gained from being long term customers. I for one am a very happy Sprint customer with too many discounts and perks to consider switching. Obviously if the iPhone were available to my carrier I would own one, but it's just not worth switching because of what I would have pay. 
Not sure why you posted a link to an article that undercuts your attempts to 'defend' the iPhone in this thread. That link to Gizmodo shows a price break down similar to the one shown by the OP as well as giving the iPhone a "no" in the Background Apps category and saying it "...falters on multitasking..." Basically Gizmodo is saying what almost every other reviewer is saying in that the iPhone is still top dog, but the Pre is a surprisingly close second. The Pre isn't likely to draw iPhone owners away from Apple, but people that haven't made the plunge into the smartphone market have more to think about now than they did a week ago.
Lethal
Because that's typically what people do. If they have an opinion on an issue they'll provide information to back up that opinion. People typically don't provide information on an issue that goes against the position they been asserting during the discussion.
Lethal
Very simply, these types of "comparisons" are almost worthless(still interesting)
They things that matter are prices for the plan YOU'LL be buying, service in your area(and places you go a lot) and which device you want.
You can say company A has the best service, but if in my local area, company A is lacking, then you're comment doesn't do me much good. Same thing with price.
They things that matter are prices for the plan YOU'LL be buying, service in your area(and places you go a lot) and which device you want.
You can say company A has the best service, but if in my local area, company A is lacking, then you're comment doesn't do me much good. Same thing with price.
Exactly. If I was in the market for an iPhone then I'd probably go for 120 MB of data per month (that's plenty when you have Wi-Fi available the majority of the time). I'd have casual texting and calling. Total cost: US$815 over 24 months, including the cost of buying the phone.
I wouldn't say they are worthless because they provide people w/a convient side by side comparison of the big features of each device. They aren't meant to show that X is better than Y just that in these categories here is how X and Y compare to each other.
Lethal
yeah right, apple fanboys living in RDF has the courage to call world known facts as fallacy, how surprising!And I'm tried of Apple haters coming with fallacies.
next up, they would define day as night.
Oh I'm well aware it can "multitask" but I don't count playing music while you do other things as "multitasking". And you listed the restriction there yourself, only Apple apps are allowed to multitask, so I'm sorry that just doesn't count.
Yeah, it definitely doesn't count, but it also definitely isn't in the same category of OS that doesn't multitask because the OS itself doesn't support it.
So I guess until someone comes up for a class like that (restricted multitasking?), people are going to continue to say that it multitasks, and technically, they're not going to be wrong.
yeah try to multitask with third party apps which you praise so much 50,000 apps. Now all those apps cant be use easily because you can multitask on the iphone.
If an area is not a 3G coverage area, does that mean 2G is used by default??
WTF about Wyoming?!?!?! JK Although my first question was serious.
WTF about Wyoming?!?!?! JK
Although my first question was serious.
I agree, if the article is presented that way, but I don't think it was by this site. Its was named "total cost" as if those devices always cost that much, they don't. And the image talks about "saving money" and "financial freedom"
I agree its interesting, but worthless as far as a break down of costs for phone plans go. Its just too general.
For me, that's the relevant number because I don't use even close to my 450 minutes or 200 texts each month. And $480/730 days = $.66/day. Frankly, I couldn't care less.
well, money wise, you can always have different prospective. Such as:
$480 is a high end netbook
$480 is a new bed
$480 is 10 copy of your precious Thesis.
$480 can buy your your regalia for the memory of your life
$480 is a year's bus ticket
$480 buys you a great car stereo
$480 feed you one or two month
$480 save 2 poor kids in third world country
$480 buy you a good bike.
$480 buy you a year's internet service
$480 get you 9-10 month of mobile broad band from sprint.
etc.
yes, it would be Verizon's 2G network.
yeah right, apple fanboys living in RDF has the courage to call world known facts as fallacy, how surprising!
Right.
Like I said, it fits the technical definition of multitasking, but not the reality of what people mean when they ask "can the iPhone multitask?" (Which the link to the Gizmodo slides you provided clearly points out!)
Damn that sucks,
Vodafone NZ let you use their TalkTime or Braodband plans with the iPhone. But then you dont get the subsidiary. Have to pay the full $1k!!!!
BTW, anyone with a house Avatar has to be right!!!
Vodafone NZ let you use their TalkTime or Braodband plans with the iPhone. But then you dont get the subsidiary. Have to pay the full $1k!!!!
BTW, anyone with a house Avatar has to be right!!!
Sprint's Everything plan is nice at $99, but they're only offering it because the company is in financial trouble.
So, lock in those rates now!
"Sprint lost 1.3 million long-term contract subscribers in the first quarter, offsetting a surge in customers who don't sign contracts and prepay for their wireless minutes. Many were attracted by the company's Boost Mobile unlimited plan, which costs $50 a month."
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"Chief Executive Dan Hesse said business shutdowns and layoffs accounted for much of the contract-subscriber losses, bringing the total number of such customers lost to more than six million since the fall of 2007. Sprint ended the first quarter with 49.1 million total customers."
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"The third-largest provider of U.S. mobile-phone services posted a loss of $594 million, or 21 cents a share, compared with a year-earlier loss of $505 million, or 18 cents a share. The latest results include $327 million in severance costs related to cutting 13% of the company's work force, expected to save about $1.2 billion a year. Revenue decreased 12% to $8.21 billion."
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"In the meantime, larger rivals AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless are picking off the industry's most valuable customers. AT&T added 1.2 million customers, and Verizon Wireless signed up 1.3 million customers in the period."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124143412508182949.html
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And here's Verizon's Unlimited Everything Plan (at least in my area):
It's $149 (Voice) + $29.99 (Data + Messaging) = $179.98
So, I don't think AT&T's too far out of line.
So, lock in those rates now!
"Sprint lost 1.3 million long-term contract subscribers in the first quarter, offsetting a surge in customers who don't sign contracts and prepay for their wireless minutes. Many were attracted by the company's Boost Mobile unlimited plan, which costs $50 a month."
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"Chief Executive Dan Hesse said business shutdowns and layoffs accounted for much of the contract-subscriber losses, bringing the total number of such customers lost to more than six million since the fall of 2007. Sprint ended the first quarter with 49.1 million total customers."
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"The third-largest provider of U.S. mobile-phone services posted a loss of $594 million, or 21 cents a share, compared with a year-earlier loss of $505 million, or 18 cents a share. The latest results include $327 million in severance costs related to cutting 13% of the company's work force, expected to save about $1.2 billion a year. Revenue decreased 12% to $8.21 billion."
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"In the meantime, larger rivals AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless are picking off the industry's most valuable customers. AT&T added 1.2 million customers, and Verizon Wireless signed up 1.3 million customers in the period."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124143412508182949.html
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And here's Verizon's Unlimited Everything Plan (at least in my area):
It's $149 (Voice) + $29.99 (Data + Messaging) = $179.98
So, I don't think AT&T's too far out of line.
