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Originally Posted by vinuneuro

Those of you who own one..how's the size? Seems a little large to be portable..

It's about the same footprint as my Treo 680 was, but half the thickness.

Here's a good comparison shot next to a RAZR (and it's thinner than the RAZR):

http://www.whoisgregg.com/blog/wp-co...-razr-slvr.jpg

The area s larger seemsis what I meant (lengthxwidth). Is it pant pocketable? I'll get around to going to the Apple Store one of these days..

The size of the phone is not a problem its the case sizes that are currently to big. You don't want to scratch the thing so you wind up trying to protect it with these silly cases.

Ive been a nokia fan ever since, im using a n80 on this post right now, but im totally sold on the iphone when i tried it at d apple store, def getn one

its about as big as my old treo 650, BUT 1/3 the thickness...you dont even feel it in your pocket.

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Originally Posted by B-Line

So if I decide to keep this phone, then activate it, and a year later a better one comes out, am I locked into this phone for two years?

B

NO, your locked to Cingular for two years, not the phone. You can buy a new phone everyday as long as you stay on Cingular.

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Originally Posted by Eric5273

The rate plans are not more expensive. They are the same as with any other phone.

But yes, you do need a data plan because the visual voicemail uses data. Without the data plan, you wouldn't be notified when you had a new voicemail as the phone does not have a normal voicemail capability like other phones, just the visual voicemail feature.

My monthly fee dropped $40 per month...so the phone will be free when I'm done.

I was paying $49/mo for unlimited data + $9.00 for text messaging. iPhone plan is $20 for data and includes 200 text messages for free.

I came from a HTC TyTn (unlocked Cingular 8525) w/ Exchange email, 3.5 G service (getting 600-900kbps) and WM6...I thought I would have to keep both phones.

The Tytn is on Ebay right now...NO WAY I could ever go back! The iPhone is AMAZING!!

BTW- The iPhone does not have push, but it will talk to my Exchange 2003 Server and pulls email down every 15 minutes or on demand and I really have not missed push as much as I thought. Apple is rumored to be adding full Exchange support very soon though.

I don't know if this has been posted yet, but I know there have been some questions about SIM card swapping with the iPhone to other devices. I was able to swap my new iTunes activated SIM card from my iPhone into my Razr (already had AT&T service) and my Razr worked fine. I know some people swap between multiple phones for different uses. I don't know if anyone has tried to put the new SIM card into a blackberry, but it does work on a Razr.

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Originally Posted by BBX531

It won't work on a Blackberry, but it will work fine on almost any other AT&T phone. AT&T had posted this at their website. Apparently the iPhone data plan is basically the same as their MediaMax bundle which includes access to their MediaNet portal which is what you have on your RAZR and is also on most of their phones. Blackberrys have a different plan allowing for the push email, and I doubt that would work with the iPhone data plan.

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Originally Posted by Eric5273

Actually there is no reason why it wont....but you would need to ADD the blackberry plan to your account. I had a HTC Tytn (8525) and used it for a long time with the MediaNet (WAP) plan and had push Exchange. I only recently switched to the $50 ISP plan and honestly there was absolutley no difference!