Todd Allcock wrote:

> That can't be it- there's already the "no phone service" hack that
> surfaced immediately, and frankly, while T-Mo does have a better
> prepaid plan than AT&T, AT&T's isn't that expensive, and at least has
> (expensive) EDGE data available as a backup. Unlocking is a lot of
> work to save a couple of bucks on prepaid servive.

It's more than a couple of bucks. After going "gold" you can have
T-Mobile prepaid for $10 per year, while AT&T is $100/year minimum, AFAICS.

The main reason to buy the current generation of iPhone is for the web
browser over WiFi. It's not a good device for texting, and it lacks the
applications available on true PDA phones. Web use on EDGE is very slow.
Still, even if you buy it for the WiFi and web browser it's nice to have
the phone part work. If you want the phone portion to work without
paying a lot, T-Mobile is the way to go.