Did you change your mind on the iPhone 3g in the past couple of days?

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Master Geek
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#146498 11-Jul-2008 00:15

Yes

NO!

NZtechfreak

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#146545 11-Jul-2008 03:27

1. No
2. No

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qiddees

2 posts

Wannabe Geek

#146604 11-Jul-2008 09:43

Yes
Yes (waiting for jailbreaks and considering buying from overseas)

rebeltrousers

230 posts

Master Geek

#146611 11-Jul-2008 10:10

Yes

Once again the most charismatic mobile device I've owned!

Stoked!

quietgiroth

7 posts

Wannabe Geek

#146671 11-Jul-2008 12:04

Me:

Yes
No

GF

Yes
No

$199 sounds great, but I'm not forking out that much money to Vodafone

moscomusic

10 posts

Wannabe Geek

#146863 11-Jul-2008 16:04

Yes

Already own 8Gig 1st gen. Was gonna get another and let the Mrs have this one... ;-)

Not gonna happen for a while now!

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#146940 11-Jul-2008 18:29

Yes
No

allsteve

19 posts

Geek

#147004 11-Jul-2008 23:46

1. Yes
2. No

3. Geekzone needs a poll function.

magu

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#147010 12-Jul-2008 00:45

1. Yes
2. Yes, but only because of plan subsidies on talkZone

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leemajors

73 posts

Master Geek

#147060 12-Jul-2008 11:22

1. Yes

2. No

But I'm going to work out an alternative way to get one. I can actually afford to pay the ridiculous price of $979 but won't lock myself into paying even $50/month for 2 years.

I also want the option to switch away from VF when I like. Maybe telecom will bring out a good GPS option?

brownbox

149 posts

Master Geek

#147068 12-Jul-2008 11:38

$1300 on trademe for a prepay 3g. Ofcourse, it doesnt work on 3g, gprs, gps or mms. So really, your getting a 1g iphone for twice the price. Will be interesting to see what telecom does wheneve they get to it.

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Master Geek

#147069 12-Jul-2008 11:46

brownbox: $1300 on trademe for a prepay 3g. Ofcourse, it doesnt work on 3g, gprs, gps or mms. So really, your getting a 1g iphone for twice the price. Will be interesting to see what telecom does wheneve they get to it.

Yeah, I have no idea why Vodafone is locking the phone down to only work On Account (well I see that they are just greedy). I have an iPhone 2.5G now and it works fine on GPRS on prepay and I've also had Sony Ericssons that work on 3G on prepay.... so you would think that the iPhone 3G would also work fine on 3G on Prepay.

It's just Vodafone trying to make as much money and lock as many people down before people have the option to move to Telecom. GSM phones are all about the ease of popping out your SIM card and using what provider you want. Locking down phones is just incredibly anti competitive.