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Old 06-27-2007, 12:16 PM
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I WAS on the fence and starting to lean towards buying one on Friday until I learned the following:

1) You cannot take a picture and immediately send it with a text message. This is a BIG deal killer for me. What's the point in having a 2MP camera then? Most of my friends that I would have to "e-mail" the picture to, don't have access to e-mail on their phones.
Just so you know, all carriers have email address gateways for their phones.

For example, if you send an email with a picture attachment to [email protected], it will be received as a picture message.

For Verizon, it is [email protected]

That is actually the best way to send a picture message to someone overseas because you don't get charged. Here is a complete list:

http://www.hiptools.net/sms/



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3) You only get 200 text messages with their bundle plans.
Verizon doesn't give any text messages with their data plans. On the iphone plans, you can increase your text message bucket to 1500 messages for an extra $10 per month and to unlimited messages for an extra $20 per month.




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- Verizon is still the #1 carrier in the PHX market, which means that I will not be able to take advantage of the free mobile to mobile minutes for ALL of my local calls. This is very important to me since I recently got rid of my land line, and am now 100% cell phone.
I'm not sure when you make most of your calls, but I faced this same exact issue when I changed to Cingular a couple of years ago. Most people in the NYC area still use Verizon and most of my friends and family are still on Verizon.

However......I don't use my phone much at all when I'm at work, and I don't get off from work until 6pm at earliest. Cingular offers 7pm nights for an extra $9/month. They also offer rollover minutes with all of their plans. I find that most of my use of "anytime minutes" was between 7pm and 9pm. So now with that added to their minimum $40 voice plan, I only use around 200 anytime minutes per month. And I talk on the phone A LOT. Still, I have accumulated about 3800 rollover minutes, so if I want to go crazy one month and talk all day long, it won't cost me a dime.

And I also don't have a landline anymore. I got rid of mine about 3 years ago.
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Old 06-27-2007, 01:12 PM
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I could never get rid of my landline..

As good as verizon service is (which I used to have.. But got rid of..)
I still prefer to talk on a land line..

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I was never in the early adopter camp for the iPhone and after reading all of the serious limitations I am even more convinced that it would be foolish to separate myself from $500 for one. What a bunch of mistakes! Perhaps they will have it all sorted by 4th Gen.

This might be a nice alternative if they bring it over to NA. Cingular, Sprint, T-Mobile, and perhaps most importantly Verizon all have HTC products now so we can hope they bring this in too. It looks pretty cool and does the things the iPhone doesn't.

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Old 06-27-2007, 02:50 PM
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I'm getting an iPhone

btw- an announcement is suppose to be made before Friday that MS Exchange will be supported, this is what pushed me over the fence.
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I was never in the early adopter camp for the iPhone and after reading all of the serious limitations I am even more convinced that it would be foolish to separate myself from $500 for one. What a bunch of mistakes! Perhaps they will have it all sorted by 4th Gen.

This might be a nice alternative if they bring it over to NA. Cingular, Sprint, T-Mobile, and perhaps most importantly Verizon all have HTC products now so we can hope they bring this in too. It looks pretty cool and does the things the iPhone doesn't.

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Damn, I want THAT phone!!! The ladies will love it too since you can use a finger or a stylus (read fingernails).
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Old 06-27-2007, 06:48 PM
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Just so you know, all carriers have email address gateways for their phones.

For example, if you send an email with a picture attachment to [email protected], it will be received as a picture message.

For Verizon, it is [email protected]

That is actually the best way to send a picture message to someone overseas because you don't get charged. Here is a complete list:

http://www.hiptools.net/sms/





Verizon doesn't give any text messages with their data plans. On the iphone plans, you can increase your text message bucket to 1500 messages for an extra $10 per month and to unlimited messages for an extra $20 per month.






I'm not sure when you make most of your calls, but I faced this same exact issue when I changed to Cingular a couple of years ago. Most people in the NYC area still use Verizon and most of my friends and family are still on Verizon.

However......I don't use my phone much at all when I'm at work, and I don't get off from work until 6pm at earliest. Cingular offers 7pm nights for an extra $9/month. They also offer rollover minutes with all of their plans. I find that most of my use of "anytime minutes" was between 7pm and 9pm. So now with that added to their minimum $40 voice plan, I only use around 200 anytime minutes per month. And I talk on the phone A LOT. Still, I have accumulated about 3800 rollover minutes, so if I want to go crazy one month and talk all day long, it won't cost me a dime.

And I also don't have a landline anymore. I got rid of mine about 3 years ago.
Problem is, I work from home
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I was never in the early adopter camp for the iPhone and after reading all of the serious limitations I am even more convinced that it would be foolish to separate myself from $500 for one. What a bunch of mistakes! Perhaps they will have it all sorted by 4th Gen.

This might be a nice alternative if they bring it over to NA. Cingular, Sprint, T-Mobile, and perhaps most importantly Verizon all have HTC products now so we can hope they bring this in too. It looks pretty cool and does the things the iPhone doesn't.

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programmable smart buttons, voice controls, etc... gotta love it!
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Hmmmm motivation to spend $500.00. How vain

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Damn, I want THAT phone!!! The ladies will love it too since you can use a finger or a stylus (read fingernails).
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Damn, I want THAT phone!!! The ladies will love it too since you can use a finger or a stylus (read fingernails).
SG,

Wait till you have it in your own hands. You will buy the iPhone. Forget about Edge, non-removable battery, corporate email, 2 megapixel cam, no video, etc. etc. etc.

On the other hand, it will flawlessly sync with your black Macbook, it's a Mac OS and admit it, you are now like us Apple Fanboys

Don't be surprised if Steve Jobs drops the final bomb tomorrow - REBATES!!!!
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How Apple see's the iPhone. Interesting read.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/macworld/200...xjpNKQ0jME1vAI
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