Cell Phones

[gja1000]

GREAT Sandy! I'll be downloading the new operating system to my iphone when things calm down - I can't wait to get the new features! I wish I had the longer battery life, but I can wait till I qualify for an upgrade. One thing is for sure though, I will NEVER be without my iphone!!!!!

Also, be prepared for a few extra fees today - activation fee, and the like. It's not too much extra, but it will be a little more than the actual monthly charges/fees.

[Janet]

The iPhone sounds wonderful. I got to thinking that US Cellular doesn't have that I don't think. That is the company we are with and never EVER have any problems. I'm just gonna have to check.

Gayle....when you said you could have internet wireless or through the phone....what did you mean. We don't pay extra for Ricky's iPod Touch.

[Tiramisu]

Hubby and I have the Family Talk Plan. We share 700 minutes, with unlimited mobile-to-mobile and nights and weekends. In a normal month, we use about half and the rest goes to rollover.

With ExxonMobil discounts, we pay $54/m for 1st line and $9/m for 2nd line. Then, my BB is $35/m for text messages and unlimited media. I'd like to cut down on the minutes, since we don't use them, but next lower rate is 450, for about $20 less.

It's a lot, but it's one of my few splurges!

[Tiramisu]

Originally Posted by gja1000

GREAT Sandy! I'll be downloading the new operating system to my iphone when things calm down - I can't wait to get the new features! I wish I had the longer battery life, but I can wait till I qualify for an upgrade. One thing is for sure though, I will NEVER be without my iphone!!!!!

Also, be prepared for a few extra fees today - activation fee, and the like. It's not too much extra, but it will be a little more than the actual monthly charges/fees.

We've been with AT&T (Houston Cellular - Cingular) for almost 14 years, with discounts through the couple of large corporations I've worked for. I've always had good luck with getting them to drop the activation fee, but I read where there's a $36 activation fee for the IPhone.

I've only ever had this one cell phone number!

[gja1000]

Getting to the internet through wireless means that you have to have a wireless signal to access the internet. I have wireless here at my house, and I think I remember that you do too. So I can get on my iphone through my wireless when I am at home. However, if I am at the grocery store, which does not have a wireless access and I want to get on the internet to check 4womentalk - then I have to go through my cellphone number. If I didn't have access to the internet through the cellphone number (connection), then I couldn't get on the internet at the grocery store.

My other phone, T-Mobile Dash, I didn't pay to have access to the internet through the phone number so I could only get on the internet when I had access to a wireless signal.

Now, with the iphone, I pay the extra $29 per month and I can access the internet any where I have a cellphone signal. That means that I can get on the internet 99% of the time, whereas when I could only get on when I could access a wireless signal, then my time on the internet was much less.

Does that make sense????

[Tiramisu]

Originally Posted by gja1000

Getting to the internet through wireless means that you have to have a wireless signal to access the internet. I have wireless here at my house, and I think I remember that you do too. So I can get on my iphone through my wireless when I am at home. However, if I am at the grocery store, which does not have a wireless access and I want to get on the internet to check 4womentalk - then I have to go through my cellphone number. If I didn't have access to the internet through the cellphone number (connection), then I couldn't get on the internet at the grocery store.

My other phone, T-Mobile Dash, I didn't pay to have access to the internet through the phone number so I could only get on the internet when I had access to a wireless signal.

Now, with the iphone, I pay the extra $29 per month and I can access the internet any where I have a cellphone signal. That means that I can get on the internet 99% of the time, whereas when I could only get on when I could access a wireless signal, then my time on the internet was much less.

Does that make sense????

So, Janet, the IPhone would work just like Ricky's ITouch. AND, for $29/m, with the IPhone, you would get internet almost everywhere - going down the road in your bus.

[gja1000]

Sandy, that is the same plan that Gary and I have - we share 700 minutes - plus I have unlimited texting because my g-daughter texts me ALL THE TIME! My daughter texts me some too when I am in meetings and can't answer the phone.

I also have a discount through the University of Texas - I think it is a 20% discount.

[Tiramisu]

Nice discount!

Harold actually carries two cell phones - his company got him one last year, when we had just renewed our personal contract. They wouldn't port his number or try to transfer the account. All the kids have their own service, so I'm just hoping to run across somebody who'll take over his part or we'll pay it another year and not renew it.

[Janet]

Originally Posted by gja1000

Getting to the internet through wireless means that you have to have a wireless signal to access the internet. I have wireless here at my house, and I think I remember that you do too. So I can get on my iphone through my wireless when I am at home. However, if I am at the grocery store, which does not have a wireless access and I want to get on the internet to check 4womentalk - then I have to go through my cellphone number. If I didn't have access to the internet through the cellphone number (connection), then I couldn't get on the internet at the grocery store.

My other phone, T-Mobile Dash, I didn't pay to have access to the internet through the phone number so I could only get on the internet when I had access to a wireless signal.

Now, with the iphone, I pay the extra $29 per month and I can access the internet any where I have a cellphone signal. That means that I can get on the internet 99% of the time, whereas when I could only get on when I could access a wireless signal, then my time on the internet was much less.

Does that make sense????

Yes it makes perfect sense, thank you. It's what I thought, but I just wasnt' 100% sure.

[Janet]

I wish we could afford it. Sucks...LOLOL Oh well. Between my husband, son and myself...we have 700 minutes...unlimied mobile to moble, free nights and weekends. My son also has unlimited text on his. I'm not much on texting so I just do it through the computer if I feel the need. We pay $99.29 a month. So there is no way we could afford another $30 a month for internet through the phone. I wish we could!

We're probably paying too much, but with the other services around this area....many have so many dead spots and we only have one short area between home and Lafayette. I haven't checked the other prices because I knew the services weren't quite as good and I would be afraid we wouldn't have the great service we have now.

[Tiramisu]

I am now the proud owner of an Apple IPhone 3GS. I'm at work, so I won't get to play with it until tonight. We going to MIL's tomorrow, so I'll have lots of time to figure it out there. I got to the store at 6:15 and the line wasn't too bad. They divided us into two lines, pre-reservers (ME) and walkups. So, it ended up that there were only 12 people in front of me.

[Janet]

If I heard correctly...the iPhone is an AT&T exclusive...is that right? So if anyone wants an iPhone they have to have AT&T service?

Congratulations Sandy!! I am so envious!!

[DianaB]

Originally Posted by Tiramisu

I am now the proud owner of an Apple IPhone 3GS. I'm at work, so I won't get to play with it until tonight. We going to MIL's tomorrow, so I'll have lots of time to figure it out there. I got to the store at 6:15 and the line wasn't too bad. They divided us into two lines, pre-reservers (ME) and walkups. So, it ended up that there were only 12 people in front of me.

Congrats on your new phone!!!! I can't imagine being at a store THAT early and being #12 in line!!!! We don't hardly have lines here much over 3 or 4 people.