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Old Jul 19, 2008 | 3:39 pm
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Originally Posted by gfunkdave
Am I the only person on the face of the earth who doesn't understand all the iPhone hype, and has no particular desire for one?

Surely there have to be others. Unite, my brethren!
I'm sure you aren't the only one.

I'd love to have one, but I don't want to pay $50 - $60 a month to the cell phone company. So, I'm very happy with my unlocked GSM razr using t-mobile to go as my provider which ends up costing me less that $10 a month with my light usage. (Plus the one-time cost of an unlocked GSM phone, you buy 1000 minutes for less than $100 -- discounted a bit online from 3rd parties -- which have a 1 year expiration date. Calls are 10 cents a minute, text messages are 5 cents with the 1000 pre-paid minutes.) My phone is an unlocked quad band GSM phone, so it pretty much works anywhere in the world.

Yes, I am the master of using 4 year old cell phone technology on the cheap, I guess. I also don't think I'm in the iphone target market.

IMO, the iphone service plan means it isn't for everybody. If you are already paying $40 a month for your cell phone plan, then I guess the extra $20 a month for the unlimited data plan isn't that huge of a difference. (It is, and it isn't.)

-David

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