Comments on: AGTV – Should you upgrade to the iPhone 3G?

By: John

John — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:23:22 +0000

Well it is official Rogers in Canada has announced the pricing for phone and data in Canada.

http://your.rogers.com/investorrelations/news_communications.asp

iPhone 3G Price Plans at Rogers Wireless
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Sent Incoming
Text Text Visual
Price Voice Data Messages messages Voicemail
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$60 / 150 minutes + unlimited 400 MB 75 Unlimited Unlimited
month Evening and Weekend
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$75 / 300 minutes + unlimited 750 MB 100 Unlimited Unlimited
month Evening and Weekend
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$100 / 600 minutes + unlimited 1 GB 200 Unlimited Unlimited
month Evening and Weekend
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$115 / 800 minutes + unlimited 2 GB 300 Unlimited Unlimited
month Evening and Weekend
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Data Usage – What You Get
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Monthly
Data Usage Online Applications
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400 MB up to 200,000 text emails or 3,100 web pages or 1,360 photo
attachments
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750 MB up to 380,000 text emails or 5,900 web pages or 2,560 photo
attachments
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1 GB up to 524,000 text emails or 8,000 web pages or 3,500 photo
attachments
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2 GB up to 1,048,000 text emails or 16,000 web pages or 7,000
photo attachments
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By: amosev

amosev — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:25:35 +0000

If you are to sell your old iphone, at what price would it be worth selling it to get the 3g? lets assume its an 8 gig iphone.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:21:01 +0000

@Matthew

My source is At&t. They had a live conference call on Monday June 9th shortly after the iPhone 3G announcement where they disclosed quite a bit to investors. You can listen to an archive of it on Yahoo.

http://biz.yahoo.com/cc/7/93897.html

I called an At&t rep the other day to confirm a question about the amount of time that would have to have lapsed from someone who bought a Blackberry or other subsidized phone before they could purchase an iPhone at $199 – and I had to tell the rep that the 3G iPhone had been announced and that it was coming out on July 11th. They didn’t know any of that…I don’t think they’re being kept up to speed on what’s going on.

By: matthew

matthew — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:51:33 +0000

Michael,

What is your pricing source with AT&T. As far as I can see, there’s been no confirmation from either AT&T or Apple on plans for current iPhone users. I’ve heard lots of rumors about billing and have tried to get info from customer service reps at AT&T. They said plans will be announced once it gets closer to July 11th. I’d love to hear your source and a link to back it up.

Thanks!

And yes… I most likely will be buying the new iPhone.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:12:13 +0000

@Packard Sonic

I said that Only 40 cities have 3G. Watch it again. 5:15 seconds. Only 40 cities in the US have 3G, many others have EDGE, and that was the whole point.

By: Packard Sonic

Packard Sonic — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:50:33 +0000

He said that only 40 cities in the US have Edge network. That is very wrong. I travel for my work and I get Edge coverage all over the place in way more cities than 40 he mentioned and they are not major cities to boot!

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:38:19 +0000

The number one reason I’m upgrading is the ability to be talking on the phone while using the internet connection. I can’t tell you how may times I was talking to someone via my bluetooth headset and said I’ll look that up only to find I’d have to hang up to use the internet.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:43:43 +0000

@Michael

So far they have said that you can keep the Edge data plan (I mentioned it at about 5:45 into the video) – I don’t know if you’ll be keeping the txt messages or not.

By: MIchael

MIchael — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:30:36 +0000

I thought that if you weren’t in an area that had 3G you could continue with the original $20 per month data plan +200 sms messages until 3G is available.

By: John

John — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:13:16 +0000

If you think that you have it bad, be glad you do not live in Canada. Rogers has told its employees that if they activate a first gen iPhone they will be fired.

It is looking as if you will need a 3 yr $50 month plan plus a data plan that rumors start at $40 month and go to $300 a month JUST FOR THE DATA!!!! to get the iPhone. These are the rumors as Rogers still has not said anything at all about its plan and all it has said about the iPhone is a press release that was cut and pasted from the Apple press release but two days late.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:57:05 +0000

@Chris

Yeah, it costs extra, but you can still get it on your original iPhone – you don’t have to upgrade to the iPhone 3G to use it.

@Seth

I’m not disappointed with the battery life at all. I very rarely run into an issue where my battery is dead without a quick way for me to charge it.

By: Seth Elliott Meyer

Seth Elliott Meyer — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:55:07 +0000

Are many current users disappointed with battery life? One other point in the keynote was about increased battery life on the new phone. Is this critical for old users? Or is it simply a marginal increase? (I’ve never had an iPhone, but definitely fall into the 56% who said price was the major barrier…and may remain in that 56% with AT&T’s plans for the 3G.)

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:52:47 +0000

In this episode you said that other than the 3G stuff that was talked about, everything else you can get in the 2.0 upgrade. Not sure if you forgot MobileMe already… That doesn’t come with the 2.0 upgrade, you have to pay $99 a year(?) to use it.