Posted: 3/20/2009 8:03:30 AM EDT
| If you had the choice between a Windows Mobile phone on T-Mobile or paying to cancel your account and getting an iPhone, which would you do? My wife needs a new phone today because she dropped her's yesterday. |
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You could just buy an iPhone outright (costs a little more) and unlock it to use on T-mobile, if you want to stick with t-mobile. It would almost be the same $ as paying T-mobile's cancellation fee. Maybe.  Can you get the new iPhones unlocked? Will it get turned into a brick in a year when they do software upgrades? Cancellation fee per line on my account is $175. |
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You could just buy an iPhone outright (costs a little more) and unlock it to use on T-mobile, if you want to stick with t-mobile. It would almost be the same $ as paying T-mobile's cancellation fee. Maybe. Can you get the new iPhones unlocked? Will it get turned into a brick in a year when they do software upgrades? Cancellation fee per line on my account is $175. Buying an iphone from AT&T (enter bogus ssn for credit check, comes back as 'not good enough credit for regular account', but they'll let you pay the extra $200 for the phone for their pre-paid plan), it may or may not be unlockable. (I don't know a whole lot about this, just repeating what I've read about the 3g unlock) The baseband has to be a certain version (something to do with 02.28) to be unlockable. No worries about bricking. That is a thing of the past, and even if you try hard enough and DO 'brick' it, it's not permanent. Restoring a device from the 'brick' state is quite simple, and requires only your two fingers and iTunes. look up iphone DEV team, they have a pretty good track record of unlocking & jailbreaking these devices. They also offer software and tutorials to do both. Depending on the version of device you have, it can range from 'stupid easy' to 'hey that wasn't bad at all' to unlock it. http://blog.iphone-dev.org/ they call the 3g unlock "yellowsn0w" |
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I think the iPhone is a slick phone, but there plans SUCK. That said, I have been more than happy with my WinMo phone Also, the 1st gen iPhones (edge, not 3g) are the easiest for unlocking Word. T-mobile has better data plans (matter of opinion, of course...) One more thing. Apple is very likely releasing the new iphone in mid summer. Just an FYI. |
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iphone is the way to go. maybe she can use one of those pay as you go phones until her contract is up. when i lost my phone, i bought basic nokia for 15.00 and swapped in my sim card. worked great and when i found my original phone, i switched back. you might even be able to pick up a used phone on ebay or something that will work for her. not sure how all that works on t-mobile though.
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iphone is the way to go. maybe she can use one of those pay as you go phones until her contract is up. when i lost my phone, i bought basic nokia for 15.00 and swapped in my sim card. worked great and when i found my original phone, i switched back. you might even be able to pick up a used phone on ebay or something that will work for her. not sure how all that works on t-mobile though. Since T-mobile is a GSM carrier, if you buy an unlocked or another t-mobile phone, you can simply put in your existing SIM card into the new phone and be good to go. |
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Double tap.
ETA: Might as well make this post useful. I left TMO because they were always the last to get anything good phone wise. ATT had all the gee whiz shit that I wanted. I paid the $$ and left early to get a BB Bold. Absolutely love it. Wouldn't buy an iphone because of the touch screen. I left because I wanted 3g, WiFi, and GPS. I prefer the BB OS having also owned a pearl and curve. I have several friends that love their iphone. They are great devices, but like all neat things they cost a lot (relatively) to operate (BB is no better). |
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Which Win Mo phone are you looking at? Have you given Blackberrys a look? What do you (or your wife) want out of the phone? My wife has (or had I guess) a Motorola RIZR. I have a HTC Shadow. She wants the following: Good Camera Unlimited Texting Web-browsing at a reasonably good speed (she hates my shadow being on the Edge network) Picture messaging of some sort Possibly e-mail. Here's the family breakdown on phones: MIL: T-mobile Samsung t639 FIL: T-mobile Samsung t639 SIL #1: T-mobile Samsung t639 SIL #2: 2nd gen iPhone and iPod Touch SIL #3: 2nd gen iPhone SIL #4: 1st gen iPhone BIL: T-mobile Wing BIL's Wife: T-mobile Wing My family can't seem to pay their bills so they don't have cell phones anymore. When we're at family activities everyone with iPhones sits around playing games and doing fun things with their phones. In a lot of ways they use the games on their iPods to attract the attention of my 4 year old nephew. It's kind of sad really. He and his 13 month old sister are the only grandkids in the family and they are the constant center of attention. In a group of needy, hormonal women between the ages of 19 and 60 you can imagine how important the kids' attention is to them. Needless to say my wife feels a little left out. She wants a phone that isn't triple the size of her RIZR and that she can take running. She runs about 5 miles a day. We have the money to get her pretty much any phone she wants but I'll have to be the one to do it or it will never get done. I'll switch networks, buy a phone outright, or whatever to get the best value. |
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Why not the G1 phone running Android from T-mobile?
It has 3g, wi-fi, the Android Marketplace with a lot of the similar apps as the Iphone. The memory is upgradeable by the user and the battery is replaceable by the user. In my opinion, I think it's a better phone than the Iphone. |