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Was the iPhone your first smartphone?

Was the iPhone your first smartphone?

  • Yes, I never owned a smartphone until the iPhone.

    Votes: 167 59.2%

  • No, I had used other smartphones before.

    Votes: 115 40.8%
  • Total voters
    282
Yup.

I went into the AT&T store to get a new battery for my Razr. While waiting, I played around with the iPhones on display. Bought one of those instead.

My iPod had just died the week before, and I was getting ready to take a motorcycle ride across the country, and was looking for a small portable GPS. I did the math, and a $600 phone was cheaper than a new iPod, a GPS and a battery. I was already on AT&T, so I went for it.

Had the misfortune of using the Razr again for a week, and hated it.
 
slapguts said:
Yup.

I went into the AT&T store to get a new battery for my Razr. While waiting, I played around with the iPhones on display. Bought one of those instead.

My iPod had just died the week before, and I was getting ready to take a motorcycle ride across the country, and was looking for a small portable GPS. I did the math, and a $600 phone was cheaper than a new iPod, a GPS and a battery. I was already on AT&T, so I went for it.

Had the misfortune of using the Razr again for a week, and hated it.
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You do realize it's not $600 phone, it's a ~$2200 phone.... (remember the monthly service for 2 years)
 
jav6454 said:
You do realize it's not $600 phone, it's a ~$2200 phone.... (remember the monthly service for 2 years)
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It's a $600 phone with a <$1500 contract. He was already on AT&T so it's a pretty good deal, since he'd be paying for the plan anyway. He'd also have to pay for the GPS service too had he bought a separate device.
 
TuffLuffJimmy said:
It's a $600 phone with a <$1500 contract. He was already on AT&T so it's a pretty good deal, since he'd be paying for the plan anyway. He'd also have to pay for the GPS service too had he bought a separate device.
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He could have had a go-phone. I have a go-phone Razr, but I use my iPhone as a go-phone instead. Works out rather nice.

So, basically. I have an iPhone without a contract, on AT&T and I don't have to pay a couple grand a year to have it.
 
My "first" phone was a Nokia 3310 purchased in Hong Kong for half the price that it was in my home country (New Zealand)

I also had an old Sony Ericsson (not sure of model but B&W colours), one of the first Samsung (CDMA) phones with a camera.

Pre-iPhone days, I had a trusty Nokia 6120c that was stolen the day I arrived back home from a 3 month holiday ):
 
TheSpaz said:
He could have had a go-phone. I have a go-phone Razr, but I use my iPhone as a go-phone instead. Works out rather nice.

So, basically. I have an iPhone without a contract, on AT&T and I don't have to pay a couple grand a year to have it.
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TheSpaz is spot-on. It was a GoPhone. My bill went up $19.99 a month for unlimited data, which is no longer available. I'm grandfathered in, though. Funny enough, I get full 3g on the new phone. So I'm paying $10 less a month for data. My monthly bill, with tax, comes to $61. No contract. In the 26 months I've been using an iPhone, I've paid around $1560 in minutes+data. I'm okay with that.

Oh and jav6454, it was a $600 dollar phone. The first iPhone was sold without a contract. I didn't have to sign up for service. I got lucky, and the price drop happened 10 days after I got it, so I was refunded the $200. So it was a $400 dollar phone. Which was then traded to a guy on Craigslist for a 3G when the 3G was still unable to be unlocked.
 
I had never considered a smartphone beforehand because I didn't really like the ones out on the market. About a year after the original iPhone came out I decided to get a 3G
 
TheSpaz said:
He could have had a go-phone. I have a go-phone Razr, but I use my iPhone as a go-phone instead. Works out rather nice.

So, basically. I have an iPhone without a contract, on AT&T and I don't have to pay a couple grand a year to have it.
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I'm glad to see your endless "I'm done with the iPhone" threads finally paid off. :rolleyes:
 
i started my mobilephone life with a ericsson

it was the ericsson T318
i owned 2 of them cause when my first contract ended there was nothing better on the market those days.
then on my third contract i got an Nokia 8210.
4rth contract, Nokia 3310.
5th contract, Nokia 3330.
6th contract, Samsung SGH700
7th contract, Orange SPV M500 (like an imate jam, a.k.a. magician) this was my first smartphone.
8th contract, Orange SPV M700 (it was build by HTC a.k.a. trinity).
9th contract, HTC Touch Pro (also know as raphael).
10th contract, Iphone 3G(s)

most contracts are a 2years contract, but for SPV M700 orange was taken over by t-mobile in holland, and t-mobile changed the contract, so i could end it a year earlier.
 
slapguts said:
Oh and jav6454, it was a $600 dollar phone. The first iPhone was sold without a contract. I didn't have to sign up for service. I got lucky, and the price drop happened 10 days after I got it, so I was refunded the $200. So it was a $400 dollar phone. Which was then traded to a guy on Craigslist for a 3G when the 3G was still unable to be unlocked.
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I never meant an up front ~$2200 cost. That's the cost after owning it 2 years. Up front it can go from $49 all the way to $699
 
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