On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Ortwin Regel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are cheaper contracts if you don't get a phone with them in > Germany. No idea what the situation in the US is. (It's probably > godawful... :-/) Personally, I use a prepaid SIM card so I pay no > monthly fees at all. Much cheaper for me than any contract. So for me > the price advantage over an iPhone is very real. >
Good for you. It's not the case for others. I'm going to have a cell phone for the next 2 years, and prepaid plans cost me plenty when I add in things like text messaging and data. Atop of that, my family has >10,000 rollover minutes just sitting there. For me, it'd be $40/month to jump on that plan, and $200 for the phone. The monthly fee is fairly constant, no matter where I go (and probably higher outside of AT&T than in), and the 2 year contract is irrelevant (I'll be using a phone for the next 2 yrs, and in the US a contract is pretty standard), so it really does just come down to $200 vs whatever another phone costs. Sheesh. We get it, we just don't care. -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
