I will purchase mine online. I live in a state which has, one, only one Apple store! It's nearly an hour away by bus, and a hugely expensive cab ride. The AT&T store is closer, but it would be just my luck to wait on line for several hours and find out that all the phones are gone! I figure I'll just learn to be patient and wait.
You can have an off day, but you can't have a day off! ---The Art of Fielding Sent from my Mac Book Pro [email protected] On Sep 16, 2013, at 10:46 AM, "Adi Kushnir" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > For us, in Israel, we have to pearchase unlocked phones. We don't have other > options. > And keep in mind that in our country the phones are far more expensive as > they are in the unlocked phones in the US. > I'm excited for the 5s also, I had the 5 until it had a very big accident > and I'm now using my parent's 4S so I have to switch. I thought about the > 5C, but I will pay extra for a better phone that will serv me for a lot of > years to come. > I hope I'll be able to afford it, because I need to return them there 4S > soon! > And, another question - maybe somebuddy will know: > The iPhone 5 has 2 moddels, A1428 and A1429, which both have different LTE > bands, and the A1429 is the version that verayzen ships in the US, and the > A1428 is the version you all get with ATNT. > For us in Israel, the afficial Apple distributer cells the A1429 moddel > because this is the one we need to support LTE on our GSM networks, and some > private store cell the iPhone cheepper because they cell the A1428 and for > most people it's good because there is only one carier that supports LTE > here. > I went with the A1429. > But for the iPhone 5s, it seams that there are 7 or 8 different models, and > not 2. So which is the A1429 qquivelent? > > Thanks! > > Adi. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Sieghard Weitzel > Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 6:34 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: where will you purchase the iPhone 5s > > Hi Ricardo, > > The advantage is that you don't have to stick with a main carrier. Here in > Canada Telus which is one of the big 3 carriers (Telus, Bell and Rogers) > also owns another provider called Koodo which is an MVNO using the exact > same network. However, I am paying $56 for unlimited nation wide calling, > unlimited texting, call display, voice mail and 2 Gb of data. The exact same > thing from Telus would cost me $85, which is $29 more a month. Over 2 years > this means I am paying $696 more, add to that the $399 for a 64 Gb iPhone > and I would pay $1,095 for a phone which I can buy for $880 (it's $30 more > in Canadian as in the States if you buy the phone outright and unlocked). On > top of that I am on a month-to-month plan with Koodo and 10% of my monthly > bill goes on a tab which at some point later I can apply against a new > phone. I have been with Koodo for almost 2 years and as I only got on this > promotion a bit into my initial contract which was about $10 more, I already > have about $150 I can use against buying a phone and I get another $150 from > Koodo against staying with them (if I left before this amount was paid back > I'd have to pay it back, but at this point I see no reason why I should > leave). If they come up ith a better promotion again this year before > Christmas I can just call them up and they will put me on it. I am sure > there must be MVNO's like that in the States where it does pay to bring your > own phone. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Ricardo Walker > Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 8:21 AM > To: viphone > Subject: Re: where will you purchase the iPhone 5s > > Hi, > > Unless you plan on switching networks in a 2 year span, how do you save > money? I'm just assuming the majority of people in the U.S. with an iPhone > are on the 4 big carriers. So, lets say I buy my phone off contract, I > don't get a discount on my bill for using my phone on any of these networks > so, where is the advantage? > > Ricardo Walker > [email protected] > Twitter:@apple2thecore > www.appletothecore.info > > On Sep 16, 2013, at 10:29 AM, Mike Arrigo <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Not sure if I will get it, if I do it certainly will not be right away > since I just got the 5 a few months ago. But, for me, the only way to go is > to get an unlocked phone. Phones that are tied to a carrier are far too > restrictive, you pay a bit more for a phone that is unlocked but it's well > worth it. If you add up the cost of your monthly bill with a 2 year > contract, it's actually higher. >> Original message: >>> Hi all. Just curious about what different people will do when it >>> comes time to purchasing the iPhone 5s. Oh, and before I go on, just >>> a point to note, the s in the name 5s is lower-case because if it's a >>> capital S it looks too much like the number 5 visually, so Apple made >>> it a small s on purpose. So, the correct way of writing it is iPhone >>> 5s. Anyway, since you cannot pre-order the 5s, will you go to your >>> local phone carrier store, or to the Apple store? I'm just curious as >>> to whether people will go this Friday and wait long lines like Black >>> Friday in the US, or if they will wait a few days until the lines get > less. >> >>> I'm pretty excited myself because this will be my first time getting >>> a new phone the day it comes out. In the past I've gotten it when it >>> was an afterthought, or in the case of the 4s, when it had been out >>> for about 4 months already. usually I wait in case there are initial >>> problems found with the first batch of hardware, but this time around >>> I'm diving in with my eyes closed as the saying goes. >> >>> Although all members are welcome to respond, I'm hoping that only >>> people who are getting the 5s will respond to this thread since I'm >>> not asking about whether it's a good idea, or if the 4s is better, or >>> if we should stay with what we have. This is because there are other >>> viphone threads which have already covered this. >> >>> Cheers. >> >>> -- >>> Raul A. 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