My contract is up April 30th and I'm just waiting for the 3G iPhone to hit the shelves!

I get so many dropped calls, or calls going direct to voicemail without even a ringtone. Sprint sucks!

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aren't they pretty big up and down the west coast?

They sure advertise a lot, but I only know two people who use sprint. One guy rarely uses his phone, so I he never complains about it. The other guy uses it because his company pays for it. He says it works fine in the city (San Francisco), but go to a rural area and expect poor coverage/dropped calls.

Ei,

Last Saturday I was downstairs next to Bristol Farms and I had no reception. My friend's brand new AT&T phone purchased minutes ago from upstairs had full bars.

John,

Good to know. I guess my friend with Sprint never bothers to go into Westfield Shopping Center!

I seem to recall losing a signal in that area of the shopping center when they first opened the new addition like a year or two ago (with my then Cingular service). Since the building was brand new, the cell phone companies probably hadn't added cell sites yet. I guess Sprint still hasn't!

Sprint's too busy trying to figure out what to do with Nextel to build out their CDMA network any more. They were never great and aren't exactly getting better.

Skin, I can't believe the treatment you got, that's freakin' horrifying! I'm sure I would have handled it a bit differently...and probably spent a little quality time with the Santa Barbara PD...

Well...I think I'm just gonna wait and see what the V2 iPhone will do. If it doesn't live up to it's promise then it's not worth putting up with AT&T (or Apple). I'll just get a Blackberry Curve when they come out on Verizon next month and save a bundle. According to this article it'll be $269 after a $50 rebate with a $100 credit for signing a data plan. Combined with my new every 2 credit of $100 that works out to...$69!

Bought the iPhone. Added it to our family plan. Works. Cheap. Fits in with the Apple workflow. Happy.

Some of you might find this interesting:

A friend of mine went to 2 Apple stores here in LA over the weekend and both were out of stock. Neither store could say when they'd be in stock, which might suggest they're already producing the new ones and are clearing out stock so they don't get stuck with too many old phones in the pipeline.

that was the story from NYC Apple stores about 3-4 weeks ago. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

chack out the palm phones. 700P, not bad, works with verizon well.
Honestly when my contrcat is up I will go with an iphone just cause it' so cool.

re - that was the story from NYC Apple stores about 3-4 weeks ago. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

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not that i'm gonna jump ship just to be able to use an iPhone, something different about the 'new' ones everybody's expecting?
(mac user since around '84.)

i haven't kept up with this except that it won't work outside ATT's network, which is why i don't own one and the iPod Touch is just a compromise for now.

RD3F,

Yes the new iPhones will supposedly be 3G and maybe GPS.

"According to a Commercial Times report, Taiwan�s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. (also known as Foxconn) has been instructed by Apple to begin preparing material supplies for the 3G iPhone by the end of May. Citing sources at foreign institutional investors, the paper says that shipments of the 3G iPhone are expected to top 3 million units in June alone, and will likely reach a total of 24-25 million units by the end of the product�s life cycle. A previous report indicated Hon Hai had been awarded an exclusive contract to build a more advanced iPhone; the company is currently the sole manufacturer of the first-generation iPhone."

Thank-you all for your replies about 3G.

So, does any of this mean a Verizon customer could activate an iPhone on their current acct instead of having to be with ATT?

not unless you unlock (hack) the phone.

...and wait for Verizon to finish and enable their upcoming GSM overlay.

Also, some features probably won't work, like visual voicemail because that needs a software on the carrier's side.