AT&T caves in on new Iphone pricing

1. This proves that jesus phone users have a mental capacity of a 4 year old, and AT&T, instead of taking off their belt, gives their kids a lollypop when they throw a temper tantrum.

2. Stop giving Twitter legitimacy, folks. It's the stupidest thing since Bonzai Buddy.

Here in Canada the GSM provider is Rogers. Their policy is you can do a hardware upgrade one year after your contract starts, so I could conceivably after July 11th upgrade to a 32 GB 3GS model for $299 CDN, which of course would also extend the contract (16 GB model is $199).
You need to have a voice plan that costs more than $30 /month, and they offer a promotional data plan, 6 gig per month for $30 a month, with a 3 year contract.
I tested tethering as I did the firmware upgrade, and uisng WIN 7 RC, it was dead simple.
I turned on tethering on the phone, turned off wireless on the laptop, conected with the USB, and I was on, I didn't have to do anything on the laptop side other than plug in the phone.
It just works, no muss, no fuss.

Well see if these whiners get me a upgrade to my current iPhone for next to nought i am not going to care and even though i am especially happy with my iPhone 3g with the new updates to the 3.0 OS upgrade if one can get a upgrade early in contract then why not, the power of these whiners was enough to force AT&T should you not be condoning other cell phone users for not trying the same thing with other phones.

Consumers speak with there wallets and future "wallets" if you are not happy with a bunch of people getting together and using this twitter thing that was mentioned to force a company to bow to the wishes of its customers then perhaps you are fighting on the wrong side.

The was mobile phones work is a new one comes out every year that everyone wants and is heavily advertised and it used to be that people could keep up with the latest trends and such easily, though now this seems to be getting harder with longer contracts and the removal of mid contract upgrades that used to be very prevalent.

So i say bravo to the whiners there getting what they want by working together.

$200 for a phone!??!?!! Cell phones are so funny.

The quality of this site has sank like a guy wearing concrete shoes. Please PLEASE at least get the details "right" when you rip off someone else's work. The Inq has become nothing more than an news aggregator. There is no more real journalism here. Please move on, everyone.

As for the change in pricing... I personally think they whiney twats should have pay full price unless they want to extend their contracts even further. After all, the theory in the US is that you have these 2 year term contracts and early termination fees to cover the cost of the cellco subsidizing the upfront cost of the cell phone you use. Of course, most of these cellcos won't lower your rates nor require less than a term contract if they don't have to subsidize your phone. Though, I think that may be changing some with some of the cellcos offering month to month plans that are NOT pre-pay. Now if only the iPhone ended up on one of those plans I'd buy one.

I personally hate the BS with term contracts. I've paid full price for most of my phones for various reasons and only once have I had that difference taken into consideration by a cellco.

Now, we just need to get verizon, t-mobile, and at&t using the same network technology and we can hopefully get true 3G-like service/speeds throughout most of the US. As it stands, t-mobile's and at&t's 3G coverage area is nothing more than a joke.