Monday, October 13, 2008

AT&T (locked and unlocked) vs TMobile (unlocked)

Posted by Jim on December 24, 2007

As I said in my first post, I am a dad with a daughters iPhone wrapped under the tree. So I don’t have any serial numbers or anything else on the box, and haven’t opened the box yet so no idea versions.

With AT&T and TMobile, I have the option of rate plan and data discounts, but of course not with the iPhone on AT&T. Seperate from the rate plans discounts, has anyone done a comparison chart of features or pricing between the three options

  • A AT&T locked box - the average jane or joe, standard official approach
  • B AT&T unlocked - does this fool AT&T or the iPhone so I can activate the phone with a service and data discounts?
  • C TMobile unlocked - let me get the discounts on airtime and data

I have not activated the phone on AT&T, and one of the reasons for my questions now - since I don’t want to find out I could get this baby on TMobile and a discount each month and not have to activate it with AT&T

She gets the phone as a gift, and if I can use the information here, play around and get it on a discounted rate plan I would get a gift of some programming fun and the gift of savings every month for the next 24 months - not a bad deal for me

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  • Jim said,

    I’ve read the stickied thread about 1.1.2

    But assuming my box is 1.1.1 or a 1.1.2 comes out, has anyone done a comparrison on benefits or features?

    Visual voice mail - not a big benefit on my list of benefits for her. Heck, in my family and work life it is rare that VM’s last longer then a single listen. I don’t think she gets a lot of vm’s herself

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