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Apple and AT&T Announce iPhone Service Plans

Posted by Zonk on from the they're-going-to-zing-you dept.

daveschroeder writes "Apple and AT&T today announced service plans for iPhone, 4 days before its release in the US at 6pm local time on Friday, June 29. The plans are $59.99/mo for 450 minutes, $79.99 for 900 minutes, and $99.99 for 1350 minutes, and all include unlimited data, 200 SMS messages, rollover minutes, and unlimited mobile-to-mobile calling. Any other standard AT&T service plan may also be used. A two year service plan is required, with a $175 cancellation fee if terminated early. In addition, activations are done via iTunes, so only the hardware is purchased in the store. Interestingly, activation of a contract via iTunes is required to enable the iPod/syncing functionality of the phone as well. (It will remain to be seen whether there are workarounds for this for those who only want the iPod functionality of iPhone, and whether the iPhone is easily unlockable for those who wish to try it on alternate carriers, and so on.)"

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  1. Alternate carriers by Diordna · · Score: 5, Interesting

    (It will remain to be seen whether there are workarounds for this for those who only want the iPod functionality of iPhone, and whether the iPhone is easily unlockable for those who wish to try it on alternate carriers, and so on.)

    Apparently, Apple had to make AT&T make changes to the voicemail system to accommodate some nifty features, so if you switched carriers, you might lose voicemail.

  2. Re IPhone by anand78 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Last phone I bought was a Treo 650, thnking that I will be using the applications. A year later I use my phone for " Making phone calls".

  3. Re:SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER? WTF? by k_187 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I believe that's for the credit check they run on you. Thus, the proper anger should be about why the phone company needs to run a credit check on you and/or why a social security number is required to do so.

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  4. 74GB capacity? by berj · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Did anyone else notice this screenshot in the video?

    http://bayimg.com/LAcLFaabd

    It shows an iPhone with 75GB of storage. Earlier in the video they show the storage as 8GB.

    Any speculation as to a hard drive version becoming available sometime soon?