New iPhone info annoucend today

[Alex]

And I won't have to switch carriers. Despite the broad-based hatred for Sprint they've been completely fine for us and AT&T was decidedly not when we had them a decade ago.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Ditto. Plus I've tried the iPhone's touch keyboard and I still prefer physical buttons.

[innerSpaceman]

I like the idea of a physical keypad, but the iPhone is just prettier and sleeker than the Pre, for the WIN.

Besides, I have no idea whether I'll hate the touch pad. I'm just gonna take a chance.


A $299, 2-year contract chance.

[katiesue]

Anyone know how long AT&T has the lock on the iPhone? I find a bunch of different, conflicting answers when I do a search.

[innerSpaceman]

Anyone have any idea when AT&T is going to add Tethering and the other cool features the 3G iPhone has, but its sole service supplier can't provide?


If I cared about any of those features, that would be enough for me to look elsewhere. In the meantime, I just love the irony of new features on the phone that their only U.S. provider cannot provide. Um, didn't anyone think to coordinate?

Who dresses Apple in the morning anyway?

[Ghoulish Delight]

(sorry to keep coming back to the Pre in this thread, but since the conversation's gone this way...)

I popped into the Sprint store at lunch. I definitely would be very happy with the Pre. Looks good, keyboard isn't the best, but it's good. And the interface really is slick and responsive, things seemed to load quickly and all.

The one that I learned that will make me hesitate is that they force you onto one of their "everything" plans instead of the a-la-cart plan we have now, bringing the monthly cost to about the same as the iPhone. That's annoying and would cost us a not insignificant amount more than we're paying now. But that seems to be the case with all of their smartphones now, so it's crappy either way. And perhaps I could talk them into a more reasonable price. Perhaps.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by katiesue

Anyone know how long AT&T has the lock on the iPhone? I find a bunch of different, conflicting answers when I do a search.

If you trust my oft Swiss-Cheese memory, I recall that it was five-year exclusive agreement. Presumably five years from the initial introduction on June 29, 2007.

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Who dresses Apple in the morning anyway?

This is not an Apple problem, it is an AT&T Problem.

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Anyone have any idea when AT&T is going to add Tethering and the other cool features the 3G iPhone has, but its sole service supplier can't provide?

From the OP in this thread:

Multimedia Messaging Support (MMS) has been, since the iPhone’s first release, a common request from iPhone users and people considering a switch to an iPhone — it’s a capability many cell phone users take for granted.

Unfortunately, it appears that iPhone users in the United States will be waiting longer for MMS than some other areas. Forstall noted that while iPhone OS 3.0 is capable of MMS, it requires carrier support to implement. Twenty-nine carriers in 76 countries will support MMS at the time of iPhone 3.0’s launch, according to Forstall. AT&T, Apple’s U.S. carrier partner, isn’t among them, at least not initially. AT&T will be ready to support MMS “later this summer,” according to Forstall. That news elicited boos from the crowd.

No word on when the tethering will be available

[Snowflake]

What is tethering?

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Snowflake

What is tethering?

It's when you attach a ball to a rope and attach the other end of the rope to a pole to make a playground game.

Or you believe the malarkey that GD posted.

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

It's when you attach a ball to a rope and attach the other end of the rope to a pole to make a playground game.

Or you believe the malarkey that GD posted.

Oh, I thought that was what David Carradine did.