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Insurance Plan not likely to be offered for iPhone, says Cingular

post #1 of 7
5/10/07 at 12:29pm
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I've been with Cingular(& Apple) for many moons and have been planning to be an iPhone early adopter upon release. However, it just dawned on me that when I was shopping for a PDA at my local Cingular joint a few months back I decided against it due to the lack of insurability. So I just got off the horn with Cingular/AT&T and was told that not only is insurance still not offered for their line of PDA's and smartphones, but that insurance would also most likely not be an option for the iPhone as its price exceeds that of even their most expensive PDA. If so, what a joke. $699 for a phone and no protection to go with it. I wonder how much this will impact sales...I'm sure not making the leap now.
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post #2 of 7
5/10/07 at 8:11pm
$700 for a useless brick of a phone... quite honestly you're better of with a unlocked trio of ebay for like $200... if it dies sure it sucks, but for the price youo can afford to buy 2 more and still have scraps left over for a cup of coffee every morning for a year.
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post #3 of 7
5/14/07 at 12:23am
The iPhone seems to me to be extremely overrated, the i580 I have with Nextel also is an MP3 player and it does a pretty nice job....but I don't use it. The old addage still applies "Jack of all trades and master of none."

Mind you for $900+ (which would be the cost of the phone without contract) that damn phone better respond to me telepathically and order pizza at the sound of my stomach grumbling.
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post #4 of 7
5/15/07 at 10:28am
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The iPhone is not being subsidized by Cingular/AT&T, so everybody will be paying $599(8gb), at most.

the i580 is nice, I manage a Sprint Nextel store.....wait till the Nextel Moto ic902 comes next month, now that's one hot momma.
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post #5 of 7
5/18/07 at 9:28pm
I'm pretty certain in Jobs' speech about the iPhone that the price would be $599 with a 2 year contract. If the phone isn't subsidised, why the contract? If that's the case then Apple and AT&T can take the iPhone and shove it up their iBung. Doing the 2 year agreement to get a nice discount on a phone is one thing, getting the 2 year agreement and getting nothing in return SUCKS.
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post #6 of 7
5/19/07 at 2:34pm
No wifi, no 3g, no use

For what the phone is going to offer, it is WAY overpriced.
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post #7 of 7
5/19/07 at 10:56pm
Yeah that really does stink. Knowing how hard people are with cellphones, they know people will just break them. Then have to go out and buy a new one..tisk tisk...
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