On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:00:33 -0700, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com>
wrote in <46d6f768$0$27223$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>:

>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.

Anything to slam AT&T. Why am I not surprised.

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