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Kung Fu Jedi
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Miguel said:
Obviously it depends on your usage, but I use the 450 plan, and make many of my long distance, longer conversation calls on nights and weekends. I've been with AT&T for nearly 2 years, joined when the first iPhone dropped, and I have like 2500 roll over minutes.
jonnybryce
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I would love to have a 200 minute plan for less because I may use my phone often but I don't actually talk on the phone long, I have conversations through text, aol or in person. But knowing AT&T, it probably wouldn't even be a big difference in price from their 450 plan so I guess what I really want is lower prices all around 
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Operations
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Anyone? Is ebay our only option?Kevin said:
StopMakingSense
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Operations said:
Pretty sure the costs are around $700, and that getting one unlocked direct from Apple / ATT is not going to happen, so you would need to wait till it is unlocked by a third party, then find one for sale on ebay or somesuch.
I thought roll over minutes expired after a month.Kung Fu Jedi said:
For example:
Month 1 ->use 350/450mins, earn 100 RO mins
Month 2 ->use 450/450mins, previous month's RO mins get expired
So you would only have the RO minutes earned from the previous month to use.
I get a few RO minutes each month since I use most of my 500 mins each month.
Operations
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I see. Well, I don't think a jailbreak/unlock solution is too far off for the 3GS 3.0, considering the firmware has been out there for quite some time and the Dev team probably has already played with it extensively. Also, $700 seems to be a fair price, all things considered.StopMakingSense said:
Rollover expires after a year.dallow_bg said:
I've got about 3000 built up over the last year, have a 1400 minute plan cause I have 3 lines.
the two main offenders of minute usage (about 1100 minutes' worth) will be off my plan in January.
I'll probably drop down to 450, and go from there.
450 (39.99) + Unlimited Data (30) + Unlimited Messaging (20)
Not terrible, considering how much I use my phone.
90 bucks... am I missing anything? (Yeah I know, Taxes/Fees/etc)
Only thing is, "unlimited" night/weekend minutes is actually 5000 minutes. I dunno how I feel about that. I'll have to look at my usage.
Mamesj said:Seems like AppleCare is a good way to go with the iphone...anyone know how long you have after purchasing to decide if you want it? Also, does it go for 2 years after the first year is up or does it just upgrade the first year of the limited warranty and tack another on?
and big thanks to everyone helping out with these incessant questions
If it's like Applecare for anything else (notebooks, etc) it can be bought any time in the first year, and extends your coverage to 3 years (so it adds 2).
It depends. It took them 5 months to get an unlock on 2.0 and even then it's been limited to one baseband because Apple can change that independently of the firmware. From what I've heard it's uncertain if they'll even be able to get phones using yellowsn0w to work on 3.0.Operations said:
Well we'll find out this weekend. Best bet on an unlocked 3GS is to import or buy a sim card hack like the Gevey.Does iPhone's autocorrect ever learn? After all this time it still changes fuck to duck.
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My phone knows what NeoGAF and Boofidy and Boof-face and Boofer are, so I'm assuming it's at least adding things to it's dictionary when I dismiss their recommendations.Charred Greyface said:
Fuck may just be a word they have programed in to never learn.
More questions just because I can...
I'm looking around and I don't see a way of checking minute usage for the past few months, broken down into regular and Night/Weekend minutes.
Closest thing I could find was the bill minutes, but it didn't make any sense...
Fake edit: Nevermind, I think I found it.
This doesn't completely help, except to tell me that even if these were all regular minutes (it's combined in this chart), I'd be just fine with 450 minutes.
I'm looking around and I don't see a way of checking minute usage for the past few months, broken down into regular and Night/Weekend minutes.
Closest thing I could find was the bill minutes, but it didn't make any sense...
Fake edit: Nevermind, I think I found it.
This doesn't completely help, except to tell me that even if these were all regular minutes (it's combined in this chart), I'd be just fine with 450 minutes.
Operations said:
I'm not sure, but if you go the ebay route, bing.com always has a cashback option for the site. The percentage varies, right now it's at 8%, but last year around christmas time, it got pretty high. I think it was up to 10% not a few weeks ago, so it might go back up soon.
click this until cashback comes up:
http://www.bing.com/search?q=iphone&go=&form=QBLH
(or just search for iphone until the ebay link with cashback comes up)
jonnybryce
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They're shipping.
My status is still "Prepared for shipment" but I live in NY, so they're probably sending them out based on how far you are to allow a June 19th arrival.
iPhone 3G S pre-orders start shipping, reservations estimated in the hundreds of thousands
We've got a number of tips this morning about lucky iPhone 3G S pre-orderers getting shipment notifications from Apple. Naturally, with a high profile launch like this we're guessing Apple has done all it can to ensure shipments won't slip through earlier than the June 19th launch date, but hopefully at least few folks will get lucky -- and at least they've got one of the only guarantees of a launch day phone going. In other news, an anonymous Apple Store employee has done some homework and tallied up average reservation numbers at other US stores -- he estimates about 800 people on average are on the reservation list per Apple Store (ranging from a couple hundred to well over a thousand), which amounts to about 200,000 reservations as of now, a number he believes could double before launch. There's no way to back that number up, but it sounds fairly rational. Finally, the iPhone 3G S firmware download link has made its way into the wild. Sure, it doesn't do you any good if you don't have an iPhone 3G S, but we thought you just might want to know all the same.
My status is still "Prepared for shipment" but I live in NY, so they're probably sending them out based on how far you are to allow a June 19th arrival.
dorkimoe
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Chorazin said:
same
People think its based on how far you are from the factory? I'm in illinois. I thought they shipped from texas last time i had to send something away. Or i could be making that up.
also im thinking about buying this
http://store.apple.com/us/product/TW030VC/A?fnode=MTY1NDA5Mg&mco=NjM0MTk2Nw
anyone have any experience with something similar? trying to find a cheap alarm clock dock
eudaemonic
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LCfiner said:
If your wife is going to divorce you over a phone/gadget - and there's not a massive problem with too carried away buying things - then maybe it's for the best.
If he makes the money and everything is hunky dory on the debt side of things, I don't see why he shouldn't be able to buy the phone and tell his wife he decided to do something nice for himself.
On Topic: Placed my order thru the Apple Store and received the "shipped" notice this morning around 6 PST. Yeeeeeee!
eudaemonic said:
It was only a joke, although my wife would be fine if I bought one. I'm sticking with my original stance though, the 3Gs isn't a big enough upgrade from the 3G to warrant a switch. I'm waiting for next year's model, hopefully new screen technology, way better battery and *HOPE* support for 4G cell network that Rogers introduces next year.
Human_Shield
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eudaemonic said:
When did you order yours? I ordered mine early morning on the 9th and it still says "In Progress".
Revolutionary
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Most likely Friday.Costanza said:
dorkimoe
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bionic77 said:
I have never enabled push because well I don't get important enough emails for them to be rushed to me. Having it check every hour seems to be quick enough. I didn't want to risk the battery life of having push enabled. I however have been waiting for push with AIM and other programs, but hesitant to enable it.
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