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sounds like maybe he, or somebody he knows got the shaft.
sly, is there a link to ATT announcing this?

 

Yea afaik everyone is getting grandfathered in. For now at least.

 

Here we go....

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20006534-1.html

Excerpt from the article on CNET:

There's the details. I can't find the article I read originally, they must have left out the details about ATT not forcing you to switch. However, I don't think we can count on this being around for that long.

 

I think everyone here was aware of the bolded bit. If you can find the original article, I'm sure we'd all appreciate it. I'm not due for renewal for two years (if at all), but it would be nice to know.

 

Sorry sly you got it wrong. When I got the iPhone 4 I was grandfathered in from my iPhone 3g for the 5gb "unlimited" plan. I've since gone and manually downgraded to the 2gb plan. Yes I know I can't got back to 5gb nor do I want to.

I'd urge you people to go to the at&t site and check out your wireless data usage, I gaurantee you it's a lot lower than you think it is and 2gb is still a lot of data.

For exampla this is my data usage for the past 10 months.



Nowhere even close to 5Gb so why pay an extra $5 a month for it. I came kinda close last month -still 600mb short or about 2 months of data for me- cause I downloaded a 500mb file. Also I do have mywi and use my iPhone to tether my laptop or iPad from time to time. So I'm saving $5/mo and if I were to go over it's only $10 for the next Gb but that's probably not going to happen and if it did occasionally I'd still be saving more money in the long run

 

To see the same graph log into http://wireless.att.com
In the my usage summary box click on the phrase "view past data usage"

I'd like to see if mine is normal or below average. Anyone else care to post theirs. It can become a kinda who has the bigger e-penis thing!

 

If you want to add tethering to your plan you must downgrade to a 2gb plan plus tethering. There is no tethering option with the 5gb plan unless you jailbreak

 

It's surprising, I peaked at 1.0 and 1.3 over April and May. But otherwise, it's been consistently below .5GB since December. Something to think about in the future, but I'm not too bothered right now.

 

Mywi and grandfathered plan FTW....

 

whiskers what's your data usage, I'd like to see

you show me yours I'll show you mine

 

I'm not sure it's worth the $5 to downgrade and not be able to get it back, though. On the other hand, downgrading from the FamilyTalk 700 plan to the 550 plan would save $8.50 a month. The only downside is we lose the 6685 rollover minutes we'll never use.

That's probably the better option. We're halfway through the billing cycle and we've used 59 anytime minutes.

 

haha, i would definitely smash 2GB if i didnt have wifi at work and home... thats basically my usage from weekends only

 

If you 11 months out of the year stayed below 2gb which by looking at your past data it's very easy to do you'd save $50. If one month out of the year your went over by a few hundred mb it'd be a $10 charge making that month $35 for a total yearly cost of $310 while a year at $30/mo is $360 for the same data and if you never went over which seems like a hard thing to do it'd only cost you $300 which is a savings of $60 a year.

hmmmmm Cochese whatever could you buy for $60/yr!?!?!?!? I know how about Xbox Live Gold membership!

I must say I do find it interesting that you're defending paying $5/mo more while you were bitching about the less than $1 a month increase in Xbox Live Gold membership. So just switch to the 2gb plan and Xbox live is completely paid for even at the new prices!

 

but you do.... and you're only using 70% of your alotment. I'd like to see rollover for data though, that'd be awesome!

 

Eh. If I drop internet completely at home, I'll still have unlimited access. And Live would be useless anyway. My priorities are different than yours.

 

looks like its time for an iphone 4. a buyer came to me. giving me 250 for my 3gs. im happy with that.

 

16 or 32GB? Sounds kind of low IMo

 

 

It's not "unlimited" it's 5gb. It used to actually be unlimited then they decided to cap it and still call it unlimited. If you tried to use 5gb via tethering to a desktop or laptop and drop your home internet you'd be making a huge mistake. 5gb may be overkill for a mobile device but it's nothing for a broadband connection. You'd go over that %GB cap in a couple days and then they'd charge you far out the ass for any overages, your bill would be massive.

For example I'd say my household is far above average but as an example using the traffice meter built in to my router it says that yesterday alone there was almost 15GBs of data transferred between it. the vast majority of that is Netflix streaming.

3G is supplemental coverage, it gives you coverage everywhere but it's not supposed to be your only connection. You're supposed to use wifi when you can but even if you can't 2gb is still a lot for a mobile device.

 

32. it is a bit low. but, i didnt have to find the buyer. and its a friend of a friend, so i dont have to worry about any shady behavior. i consider it a "convenience charge". :d

 

I see. Because I sold my 32Gb 3G S for 350.

 

im content w 250.

 

Is there any reason to go to 4.1? I'm still on 3.x mainly because I have some apps that I don't want to go away, if you know what I mean one of which happens to be TomTom

also, I followed Sly's advice.... but my iPhone transferred all the texts from my old iPhone. Just had to delete 2.5 years worth of text convos, one by one

Is there a fast way to do it, like select all?

 

You assume I'd be tethering. I wouldn't.

 

How else would you get internet if you "dropped internet completely at home"?

 

Almost everything I need, I can do on my phone now. For anything else, the inlaws are five hundred yards away. Most of the shit I need, I can do at work as well.

 

How do you see the graph?

 

This makes me even happier about getting my 3G for $75.

 

porn?

 

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There's an app for that. Duh.

 

Meh, it was about 800 MB this month...

 

7.2gb used this month :S

 

Is 4.1 jailbreakable? Sorry I haven't been keeping up with the jailbreaks. I haven't had any trouble upgrading firmwares thru 4.0.1 all the way from iOS3.0 and I've been thru 3 iPhones too. It's just a matter of having appsync compatible with the new firmware and dropping your cracked apps into iTunes manually.

 

care to explain?

 

 

4.1 isnt breakable, but it will be soon.

afaik.

 

uhh.. yea, goto the messages screen. press the edit button.

then click on the red circle that shows up next to the number/contact, and then delete.

then again, dont know if thats new with 4.0 or whatever, but i dont think it is. iirc it was there in 3.x.x

 

interesting, i was watching a video on youtube and a guy had his iPhone 4 with the VGA adaptor connected to his big screen TV and was doing a facetime call.

dont understand a word he was saying because hes speaking Italian.

<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MddpELPs56c?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;hd=1"> </param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MddpELPs56c?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;hd=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>

 

I really hope he didn't sit there and delete text by text...

You can also swipe your finger across any sms conversation and it should pop up a "delete" button.