To iPhone, or not to iPhone…
July 10th, 2008
Tomorrow is the big day, possibly eclipsing Christmas, it’s the day the iPhone 3G is available. I’ve been on the fence as to whether or not to get an iPhone tomorrow. My brother and my father both bought 16GB iPhones as soon as they were available, got them shipped to a border broker, and brought them up here to Canada to Jailbreak them and unlock them. They’ve both absolutely loved their iPhones.
My father was a dedicated Palm user. He bought his first Palm many, many years ago, a Palm III. He had many more after that, the Palm V, M100, M500, Tungsten, Tungsten T2, Treo 600, and recently the Treo 700p. Switching to the iPhone was possibly the biggest change in his Tech life. He uses his iPhone everywhere, since he’s had Unlimited Data from Rogers for the past 3 months, he’s been going crazy with data usage. Now that Rogers just announced 6GB for $30, he’s going for that and going to continue using data.
Now it’s my turn to make a decision. Back then, I wasn’t ready to drop $499 for the 16GB iPhone, and then have to pay for voice and another data. Now, I can get a good voice plan for $17.95, 6GB of Data for $30, and then the ridiculous System Access Fee of $6.95 and the $0.50 911 fee. So my total fee will be $61.98 per month to have an iPhone with voice and Data. I’m also then locked into a 3 year contract! Although that is a bit less painful since I’ll be using the iPhone for at least the next two years.
I’m still on the fence. It’ll probably come down to whether or not Rogers has iPhones available tomorrow after 10pm.
