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http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/06/att-on-tethering-iphone-3g-s-pre-orders-early-upgrades.ars

elmo, how long's the trial period with at&t? You might be able to drop the account completely and re-sign up, or at least talk to a representative about your options.

Sure, except last year they were like "hey V1 owners, s'cool, we'll just stop your contract right there, hook you up with a 3g, and start you over again"

This isn't totally true -- I got warned about it. The difference is the V1 wasn't subsidised: you paid full price. That's why we could get them in Apple stores. The 3G was subsidised, and they said you'd have to pay a penalty to break the contract early or to upgrade to a new phone. Which is why I've been clinging on to this broke-ass V1 all this time, hmph.

I asked about and was told specifically that getting a crappy temp phone in December wouldn't incur any upgrade penalty for an iphone this summer, which seems to not be the case. Not having any subsidized iphone right now makes me hopeful that they can get me out of this. Basically I'm asking if they would please let me sign up to pay them more money every month than I do now.

That's why we could get them in Apple stores

Er ... eh?

Anyway: absolutely none of this makes me want to upgrade from my old but serviceable V1. Hey ho.

We're talking about phones, not missiles!

yeah so this is all moot to me because I'm not eligible to upgrade for 6 months

the bigger issue is why can't you just buy a phone when you want to be a fricken phone

when you want to buy a fricken phone.

you can buy it, you just gotta pay the premium

ON FRICKEN PHONE

you can buy it, they just won't subsidize it

i understand that, but still

yeah, that's the story, but obviously these things cost like 20p to make so it's bullshit market segmentation that will hopefully go away when i) carriers lose iphone exclusivity ii) palm or whoever make a good phone like it

fuck this, i'm giving up and buying a g1 outright and not extending my t-mobile plan.

Er ... eh?

You could buy the V1 in the Apple Store, take it home and activate it through iTunes, yeh? You can't with the 3G -- you have to sign up for a contract there and then with O2. The only ones you can buy from the Store are the pay-as-you-go ones.

I don't think they're 20p either ... I mean, they're certainly not £50, which is what you were getting the 3G for on some plans. You hardly ever pay the cost of the phone, so even when the Pre gets here I expect it to be subsidised as well.

Shouldn't we have 3.0 by now?

I know. It's s'posed to be today. Fuck this shit

Engadget says it should be out around 1pm EST.

So that's about 8-ish European time, right?

anyone know if 3s been hacked yet? I think I'm still just on 2.0 so I guess I'll have some pfaffing to do to get up to 3 : /////

where is three point ohhhhhhhhhhhh?!?!?

it's almost 8am in california and we don't have our new free stuff yet? FUCK THIS.

i threw my iphone away because i dont have 3.0 yet

way to go apple you just created a pre customer

#iphonefail

hey man, this free stuff costs me $90 / month!

#$90fail

hundred and hundred of dollar ON IPHONE

where is a SERIOUS iphone that aims marriage

what a disaster for apple

ooooh it works!

hurrah. in the process of installing it.

i bet steve jobs stepped in at the last minute and was like "we have to save the company!"

only nine hours left to download

So not gonna pay $10 to update the ipod touch. Shake to shuffle! Yeah.

stickin it to 'em

keep on truckin hombre!

I paid $10 for v2, which was worth it. I just don't see that much of interest. Cut n' paste, shake shuffle, landscape keyboard, stereo bluetooth = meh.

u know u want it

Probably going to break down and get an iphone this fall when my current contract is up, so I'll live with my crappy ol' touch till then.

Fight the power!

i bet you download it in 5 minutes

Nope. I'm really, really cheap.

take yr shit elsewhere, slocki, u corporate shill

EZ has made his/her choice and that choice is to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4pD8W0jNCQ&feature=player_embedded @ apple

That was awesome.

urgh - having serious problems installing this

you're not supposed to do it by hand - protip

I'm not - updating via - itunes but then at the last stage itunes tells me it cannot connect to the itunes store for some reason

Sheer weight of people trying to connect at once, I'd guess.

hmmm - alright - now the phone is in OS limbo and won't do anything - this blows ON IPHONE