Apple

[Powdered Toast Man]

I wonder how the iAds is going to work.

Ha...I thought that said Aids.

[Bort]

I wonder how the iAds is going to work.

Ha...I thought that said Aids.

Me too. But I'm not bragging about it.

[R-V]

Expect to plug this thing in at work before you go out at night if you want a phone that isn't dead by your second drink.

Does that guy go to bars to play with his phone or to drink with friends?

This is what I see in Sprint's favor (I don't know much, so I may be wrong):

- Cheaper phone ($140 for EVO on Wirefly via Bing vs. $200 for iPhone)
- Cheaper service ($80/month for EVO plan vs. $90/month for iPhone plan)
- Better service. Not as sure about this one, but Sprint in Chicago is much better than AT&T as far as dropped calls/reception, right? And 4Gs is more Gs than 3Gs.

Yeah the battery probably isn't great but I won't be using the phone all day or anything.

[BH]

Expect to plug this thing in at work before you go out at night if you want a phone that isn't dead by your second drink.

Does that guy go to bars to play with his phone or to drink with friends?

This is what I see in Sprint's favor (I don't know much, so I may be wrong):

- Cheaper phone ($140 for EVO on Wirefly via Bing vs. $200 for iPhone)
- Cheaper service ($80/month for EVO plan vs. $90/month for iPhone plan)
- Better service. Not as sure about this one, but Sprint in Chicago is much better than AT&T as far as dropped calls/reception, right? And 4Gs is more Gs than 3Gs.

Yeah the battery probably isn't great but I won't be using the phone all day or anything.

I'd be interested in this. Where I live, near chicago and damen, my iphone reception sucks ass if I'm indoors.
Sprint used to be the worst, but that was my experience long ago.
I'm considering a switch to sprint, my work discount is 27% so huey's brother and i could get a cheap family plan.

[Yeti]

The new iPhone looks great.

Second article says $200.00 for 16gb model. Gil thinks that's with the AT&T Subsidy.. I'm hoping not. So my question: Can I preorder that one with no upgrade discount for $200?

[Saul Goodman]

The new iPhone looks great.

Second article says $200.00 for 16gb model. Gil thinks that's with the AT&T Subsidy.. I'm hoping not. So my question: Can I preorder that one with no upgrade discount for $200?

$199 is the subsidized price with a two-year contract.  (Without a contract it's probably somewhere in the neighborhood of $500.)  As long as your upgrade date is in 2010, AT&T will let you have it.

[Yeti]

The new iPhone looks great.

Second article says $200.00 for 16gb model. Gil thinks that's with the AT&T Subsidy.. I'm hoping not. So my question: Can I preorder that one with no upgrade discount for $200?

$199 is the subsidized price with a two-year contract.  (Without a contract it's probably somewhere in the neighborhood of $500.)  As long as your upgrade date is in 2010, AT&T will let you have it.

Yea, I got my Blackberry Bold 9700 in November. I think AT&T waits 20 months for upgrades, so I'm a year away from that.. Shit. For $400, I'll consider it.. $500's pushing my nuts a little, but women do sleep with a man with an iPhone more frequently..

[Powdered Toast Man]

The new iPhone looks great.

Second article says $200.00 for 16gb model. Gil thinks that's with the AT&T Subsidy.. I'm hoping not. So my question: Can I preorder that one with no upgrade discount for $200?

$199 is the subsidized price with a two-year contract.  (Without a contract it's probably somewhere in the neighborhood of $500.)  As long as your upgrade date is in 2010, AT&T will let you have it.

Yea, I got my Blackberry Bold 9700 in November. I think AT&T waits 20 months for upgrades, so I'm a year away from that.. Shit. For $400, I'll consider it.. $500's pushing my nuts a little, but women do sleep with a man with an iPhone more frequently..

Does Tankputer have an iPhone?

[Saul Goodman]

The new iPhone looks great.

Second article says $200.00 for 16gb model. Gil thinks that's with the AT&T Subsidy.. I'm hoping not. So my question: Can I preorder that one with no upgrade discount for $200?

$199 is the subsidized price with a two-year contract.  (Without a contract it's probably somewhere in the neighborhood of $500.)  As long as your upgrade date is in 2010, AT&T will let you have it.

Yea, I got my Blackberry Bold 9700 in November. I think AT&T waits 20 months for upgrades, so I'm a year away from that.. Shit. For $400, I'll consider it.. $500's pushing my nuts a little, but women do sleep with a man with an iPhone more frequently..

This is from an MSNBC story.

$400 more without contract
According to the memo, both the iPhone 3G, released in 2008, and the iPhone 3GS, released last summer, will sell for full price: $499 for the 8-gigabyte 3G model, $599 for the 16 GB 3GS and $699 for the 32 GB iPhone 3GS. Those prices are $400 more than if the devices are purchased through AT&T with a contract and a subsidy.

[Yeti]

The new iPhone looks great.

Second article says $200.00 for 16gb model. Gil thinks that's with the AT&T Subsidy.. I'm hoping not. So my question: Can I preorder that one with no upgrade discount for $200?

$199 is the subsidized price with a two-year contract.  (Without a contract it's probably somewhere in the neighborhood of $500.)  As long as your upgrade date is in 2010, AT&T will let you have it.

Yea, I got my Blackberry Bold 9700 in November. I think AT&T waits 20 months for upgrades, so I'm a year away from that.. Shit. For $400, I'll consider it.. $500's pushing my nuts a little, but women do sleep with a man with an iPhone more frequently..

This is from an MSNBC story.

$400 more without contract
According to the memo, both the iPhone 3G, released in 2008, and the iPhone 3GS, released last summer, will sell for full price: $499 for the 8-gigabyte 3G model, $599 for the 16 GB 3GS and $699 for the 32 GB iPhone 3GS. Those prices are $400 more than if the devices are purchased through AT&T with a contract and a subsidy.

I hate my phone decisions right now.

[R-V]

So who is more dependable between Sprint and AT&T for making calls/sending texts in Chicago? The Googles machine doesn't really help me with this one.

[CT III]

So who is more dependable between Sprint and AT&T for making calls/sending texts in Chicago? The Googles machine doesn't really help me with this one.

Everyone seems to hate Sprint, but that's the service on my FLIP PHONE and I've never had any problems.

[Richard Chuggar]

So who is more dependable between Sprint and AT&T for making calls/sending texts in Chicago? The Googles machine doesn't really help me with this one.

Everyone seems to hate Sprint, but that's the service on my FLIP PHONE and I've never had any problems.

I've had Sprint for like 6 years and haven't had a problem.  Even when other people don't have a signal, I'm sexting away.

[Gilgamesh]

So who is more dependable between Sprint and AT&T for making calls/sending texts in Chicago? The Googles machine doesn't really help me with this one.

Everyone seems to hate Sprint, but that's the service on my FLIP PHONE and I've never had any problems.

I've had Sprint for like 6 years and haven't had a problem.  Even when other people don't have a signal, I'm sexting away.

Then again, you bought a 300 dollar phone that has like 4 hours of battery life without doing the research first, so your opinion is....???

[CT III]

So who is more dependable between Sprint and AT&T for making calls/sending texts in Chicago? The Googles machine doesn't really help me with this one.

Everyone seems to hate Sprint, but that's the service on my FLIP PHONE and I've never had any problems.

I've had Sprint for like 6 years and haven't had a problem.  Even when other people don't have a signal, I'm sexting away.

Then again, you bought a 300 dollar phone that has like 4 hours of battery life without doing the research first, so your opinion is....???

While I admire your stick-poke, what he gave there is not technically an opinion.