Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Last-minute iPhone 3G Details

Apple Insider has up some interesting last-minute details on the iPhone 3G. If you plan to run out this weekend and pick one up, be sure to skim thru them.

* The actual activation of an iPhone 3G through the modified iTunes app Apple and AT&T will use takes less than 30 seconds. A credit check takes about 5 minutes and the remainder of the process that includes picking a plan takes less than 5 minutes.

* The majority of customers signing new 18-month contracts with AT&T should be prepared to possibly have their existing rollover minutes reset to the number of monthly minutes included with their new iPhone 3G plan. This is standard practice for AT&T and it's possible it will carry over to iPhone upgrades.
They also have up a quick summary of the first iPhone 3G reviews that are out there on the web.

2 comments:

Nomad said...

Also if you want to check iPhone availability, Apple will be posting the online checker: http://www.apple.com/retail/iphone/

Sean said...

i find it funny how everybody sort of expects the iphone to be treated differently from every other phone that at&t sells. i know that it has over the past year, but the deal between apple and at&t is different now. it seems that if people started thinking of the iphone as any other phone, there would be fewer negative surprises.