he says 2 biggest hidden costs are:
He expects non-replaceable sealed battery used up more quickly given 3G’s higher power demands.

ATT (exclusive for iphone 3G) has increased unlimited data costs by $10 per month. To get the 200 dollar saving on the phone, you have to sign up for a 2 year contract typically, so that comes out to more than an offset of 24*10=240

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121555740704037313.html

I am not an avid ATT customer….I have never experienced more dropped calls since I switched. Ironic because their commercials brag of having the fewest dropped calls. If you read the fine print, they are just adding up the number of dropped calls and this is less than Verizon for example, but as a percentage Verizon is much more reliable because the network is much larger.

I say you are better off with RIM? Although I do know you like your tunes

Nathan

pearl is already old. get curve. i’m very satisfied with how FAST it’s been (also has built-in wi-fi, which also helps anywhere with a T-mobile wi-fi, like border’s & starbuck’s).

the more i play with other people’s iphones (new and old), the more i realize how that’s essentially a toy phone, and not really written/text communication friendly (takes too long to type on it). so it’s great if you don’t do much text’ing or e-mail, but just browse web, play texas hold’em (graphics on that is phenom!), etc. etc.

an e-mail junkie like me cannot deal with how slow you have to “touch” each letter screen on iphone.