Comments on: iPhone 3G – SMS Text Messages No Longer Bundled

By: GL

GL — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:12:13 +0000

That’s why I started using this awesome service that with an iPhone data plan works great:

http://www.btexty.com

By: dillon

dillon — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:08:06 +0000

will someone please just give me a straight answer: i have a sony erricson and i want an iphone 3G. if i get an iphone will it cost me more for the same number of texts and minutes?

By: Jordan taylor

Jordan taylor — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:02:47 +0000

i think it is personally stupid why cant the internet and the messaging all come at one price why does it have to be so exspensive i mean the phone is already exspensive as it is !

ah and by the way i love miley cyrus she rocks my socks![:

By: The Viddler Spotlight » Mahalo iPhone Blues

The Viddler Spotlight » Mahalo iPhone Blues — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:44:20 +0000

[...] musical complaints include the two year required contract, additional texting plan required, the MobileMe costs, and the fact that the 3G network isn’t available in her area. (I [...]

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:10:28 +0000

Damn, this is getting frustrating! I went into getting a 3G iPhone about a month ago totally stoked, but the more costs have piled up the, the more I’ve tried to figure out how I’m going to squeeze a $100 phone bill in! With that, I still don’t get a lot of minutes!

I guess I’ll just live with it. I keep rationalizing that the stimulus check gave me an extra $600 to throw around, so that should cover a phone and about 4 phone bills!

Jake
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By: Web Worker Daily » Archive Text Messaging: Who Cares? «

Web Worker Daily » Archive Text Messaging: Who Cares? « — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:00:50 +0000

[...] numbers suggest that the extra charge for text messaging on the iPhone 3G might not matter all that much. Annoyingly, the original survey doesn’t seem to be available [...]

By: Web Worker Daily » Archive iPhone 3G: $199 - and up «

Web Worker Daily » Archive iPhone 3G: $199 - and up « — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:01:34 +0000

[...] And remember, “unlimited” doesn’t mean “unlimited everything” – as we pointed out before, text messaging is extra, from $5 to $20 per month. As Macsimum News reminds us, though, you can [...]

By: chi

chi — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:19:44 +0000

WOW. Apple keynote presentation made the iphone sound so cheap. trying to trick poor consumers into spending more. too bad for apple, all this hype and interest might just work against them. I never read blogs or news about a product, well not until now. I’m actually slowly being talked out of buying the phone. The only way i would buy the phone is if they gave me the option to buy the edge plan over the 3g. Or at lease have the original iphone for sale still. I think I’m going wait things out, I dont think this phone will do as well as everyone thinks.

By: Mike Gunderloy

Mike Gunderloy — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:47:30 +0000

Kenneth, I spent a bit of time digging into this the past few days, and as far as I can tell, AT&T and Apple have yet to make a definitive statement about whether there are going to be feature differences between the personal and business data plans *for the iPhone*. If you’ve found a solid list, let us know – it seems reasonable to assume that the plans will be in line with the existing Blackberry/PDA plans, but that’s as yet unconfirmed.

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:26:56 +0000

At&t has two different PDA/Blackberry plans. One is Consumer for $30 and the other is Enterprise for $45. If you have the consumer data plan and 1500 text messages it does indeed cost $45, but that doesn’t make it the Enterprise data plan. The Enterprise data plan includes only data, including the ability to connect to an Exchange server (or Blackberry Enterprise Server). It’s true that there are a few others, but essentially they are the cost of the data plan plus the cost of the SMS/MMS package bundled together.

Also to Damien, the SMS messages are sent through the voice side of the network. Even if you have no internet plan, you can still send SMS messages. Not that it still couldn’t be free, but it is different from email or webpages.

By: Damien

Damien — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:59:26 +0000

The thing that really bothers me is you are getting charged the same price for the texting plan as all other users and yet the iPhone is one of the few phones that does not have MMS. I can almost understand charging something more considering you could be sending video, audio, or pictures with MMS, but when the iphone can only send straight texts should it really be an extra charge? Really though I can’t understand how they can still charge extra for SMS/MMS at all. If you have unlimited data, what really is a text other than data.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:26:41 +0000

OK by me, I hardly ever use SMS. If you’re somewhere you can’t talk and the other person has an email equipped phone too, why not just use email?

By: The Good, Bad, and Ugly sides of the iPhone 3G | Techie Diva

The Good, Bad, and Ugly sides of the iPhone 3G | Techie Diva — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:04:48 +0000

[...] for a data plan that used to cost $20/mo ($45/mo for business users), they’ll also have to pay an extra $5-$20 more per month for SMS because they’re not bundled anymore, and those who want MobileMe will pay $99 a year [...]

By: Goodman

Goodman — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:08:52 +0000

It’s a bummer, but it just puts the iPhone monthly charges on a level playing field with every other 3G smartphone AT&T offers. They’re subsidizing the phone now, and they’ve got to get their money back somehow. Plans are $5 for 200 messages, $15 for 1500 messages (which works out to the exact same cost as the Blackberry), and $20 for unlimited messages. I can see how existing iPhone owners would be disappointed, but I think a lot of people will be happy that they’ll have to pay less upfront now to buy an iPhone.

By: Emily Williams

Emily Williams — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:32:16 +0000

Guess that’s to make up for the new low price! I don’t like that they’re basically forcing you into buying a plan by charging so much for received messages…considering how much money most iPhone users will already spend relative to other customers, it just seems cheap on AT&T’s part.

By: djacobs

djacobs — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:49:23 +0000

Ok, now this sucks. Might as well keep my Blackjack I.