AT&T raises the price of iPhone Monthly plans

Kevin Weaver wrote:

> "4phun" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:bb6d57b9-5082-4c14-b9d6-38624c797e5b@m45g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
>
>> New iPhone users will have to agree to pay at least $240 more in two
>> year contracts.
> iPhone 2.0 cost 8GB 199.00
> 2 years of data plan 720.00
> 200 SMS Plan 120.00 Inc in the 1.0 iPhone plan which is not
> inc in the 2.0 plan
> Total cost for two years inc the iPhone = $1039.00
>
> Looks like it's going to cost $400.00 more for the 2 years.
> Way to go Apple.

PRICELESS...

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Larry <[email protected]> wrote in
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> SMS <[email protected]> wrote in news:tvy3k.7453$mh5.7015
> @nlpi067.nbdc.sbc.com:
>
>> To me, the attraction of the iPhone 2 is the GPS. Hopefully unlocked
>> versions of the iPhone will appear shortly after its introduction.
>>
>>
>
> What are you going to do with the GPS, Steve? It only has one rather
> poor map program. Is something else available for it?
>
>

This one is new for us:
http://www.kflog.org/cumulus/
I'm downloading the planet's maps for it, now...(c;

Our coolest is still:
http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/maemo-mapper/
Because it uses STANDARDIZED tiles, it has many sources for map,
satellite imaging, NEXRAD radar imaging and they just added Runway
Finder, all the latest Aeronautical charts, bringing the list up to:
Open Street Maps
Google Street Maps
Google Satellite Images
Google Terrain Imaging
Virtual Earth Street Maps
Virtual Earth Satellite Imaging
Virtual Earth Hybrid (streets imposed on satellite imaging) my favorite!
Yahoo Street Maps
Yahoo Satellite Imaging
Runway Finder Aeronatical Charts
NEXRAD Radar imaging from your GPS position, tracking and all.
TerraServer terrain mapping
and some Weather System in Argentina...I think.
It will place you in your exact parking space or in the lane you're
driving in on any road of Virtual Earth Hybrid with the Nokia BT GPS
receiver.

A demo version of Wayfinder installs with the OS 2008 Linux upgrade and
after 30 days or so they want you to $$subscribe$$ for automatic updates.
It's about the only software I pay for...(c; It used to be called
Navicore and talks to you like the $700 GPS dashboxes.

Sure wish someone would adapt Cumulus to Marine Chartography using the
free NOAA Marine Chart datafiles on the net. Make a great little
sailboat navigation system, even if it doesn't control the autopilots.

Larry wrote:
> SMS <[email protected]> wrote in news:tvy3k.7453$mh5.7015
> @nlpi067.nbdc.sbc.com:
>
>> To me, the attraction of the iPhone 2 is the GPS. Hopefully unlocked
>> versions of the iPhone will appear shortly after its introduction.
>>
>>
>
> What are you going to do with the GPS, Steve? It only has one rather poor
> map program. Is something else available for it?

Tom-Tom will be selling their software for the iPhone.

"I" won't be doing anything with the iPhone, since I so often go to
areas with no AT&T coverage (unless I carry a separate PagePlus phone).
However iPhone 2.0 corrects at least some of the major issues with the
first model.

SMS <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> Larry wrote:
>> SMS <[email protected]> wrote in news:tvy3k.7453$mh5.7015
>> @nlpi067.nbdc.sbc.com:
>>
>>> To me, the attraction of the iPhone 2 is the GPS. Hopefully unlocked
>>> versions of the iPhone will appear shortly after its introduction.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> What are you going to do with the GPS, Steve? It only has one rather
>> poor map program. Is something else available for it?
>
> Tom-Tom will be selling their software for the iPhone.
>
> "I" won't be doing anything with the iPhone, since I so often go to
> areas with no AT&T coverage (unless I carry a separate PagePlus
> phone). However iPhone 2.0 corrects at least some of the major issues
> with the first model.
>

The TomTom software should work anywhere you get a GPS signal, unless
Stevie has found some way to charge you by the ATT minute for it. You
shouldn't need ATT for TomTom to map your course.

As TomTom would rather you bought their expensive mapper, I bet the
software's gonna be a little pricey, too.

In message <[email protected]> iPhone News
<[email protected]> wrote:

>In article <[email protected]>,
> SMS <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> To me, the attraction of the iPhone 2 is the GPS. Hopefully unlocked
>> versions of the iPhone will appear shortly after its introduction.
>
>FYI, GPS will also work on the "old" iPhones via the 2.0 update.

It will? You do know GPS is a hardware function, right?

Larry wrote:

> The TomTom software should work anywhere you get a GPS signal, unless
> Stevie has found some way to charge you by the ATT minute for it.


Will clearly charge by the byte for the QUICK GPS CONNECTION / GPSLOCATE
equivalent function.

Cha-ching!!!

At 10 Jun 2008 10:09:37 -0700 SMS wrote:

> They could have offered a plan that only uses the EDGE network, but
> I expect that AT&T doesn't want to be adding more users to EDGE
> because they want to shut it down soon.


Why would they want to "shut it down soon?" 3G doesn't cover the entire
network, so EDGE is still the base-level "high speed network," AT&T still
sells non-3G phones, EDGE is still used by a large number current
customers, it's a solid source of revenue from international roamers with
Euro-only 3G phones, and it doesn't hog bandwidth because voice calls have
priority over EDGE data anyway. It makes money and it's harmless. (Hell,
they still have CSD active for roamers although most of their own customers
can't use it. I'd think that'd get shut down long before EDGE!)

News <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

>
>
> Larry wrote:
>
>> The TomTom software should work anywhere you get a GPS signal, unless
>> Stevie has found some way to charge you by the ATT minute for it.
>
>
> Will clearly charge by the byte for the QUICK GPS CONNECTION / GPSLOCATE
> equivalent function.
>
> Cha-ching!!!
>

I suppose the GPS signal will HAVE to go from the phone to ATT for
"processing", then be sent back to the phone, at great expense, once you've
paid for your "subscription"......

Cha-ching!!!

Larry wrote:
> News <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
>
>>
>>Larry wrote:
>>
>>
>>>The TomTom software should work anywhere you get a GPS signal, unless
>>>Stevie has found some way to charge you by the ATT minute for it.
>>
>>
>>Will clearly charge by the byte for the QUICK GPS CONNECTION / GPSLOCATE
>>equivalent function.
>>
>>Cha-ching!!!
>>
>
>
> I suppose the GPS signal will HAVE to go from the phone to ATT for
> "processing", then be sent back to the phone, at great expense, once you've
> paid for your "subscription"......
>
> Cha-ching!!!
>


They do seem to want to charge for cell tower location based services,
but my reference was to the GPS satellite constellation trajectory load
that is used to speed the handheld radio's lock on sufficient satellites
for a 3-D fix.

News <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> They do seem to want to charge for cell tower location based services,
> but my reference was to the GPS satellite constellation trajectory load
> that is used to speed the handheld radio's lock on sufficient satellites
> for a 3-D fix.
>
>

Hmm....I never got charged for that before. I must be STEALING GPS service
from the US Taxpayers, like me, who are kinda "prepaid users".

Will iPhone charge for GLASNOST if you don't want GPS??