WSJ reporting Apple-Cingular deal on phone

Yeah, Cingular is the crap. We tried to get out of our contract with the text messaging hike and got nothing but excuses thrown back in our faces. The big one they are going with is that text messaging is not a service and we don't have to use it. Also, no one at Cingular offered us ANY compensation for our grief. Nothing at all. No 200 free text messages or anything like that. Not even apologies. I even got a call from the (supposed) president after I filed a complaint. He said they could block incoming and/or outgoing messages if we wanted after I told him we can't control if others send us messages and we get charged for incoming, too. He also didn't offer anything when I told him their messaging plans are twice as much as other carriers.

Cingular is the worst cell phone carrier I have associated with. I was really bummed when they took over AT&T and really wish I hadn't signed up with them again. One more year on this contract, then me and the fiance are on to T-Mobile. iPhone be damned.

God, I hope this isn't true. I've been on Cingular before and while they could never EVER be as bad as AT&T was, I was still pretty unhappy with them.

I REALLY hope that they release an unlocked phone...y'know- like how every other country on Earth does it...

Torbert: This is what happens when 60% of the bloggers are at a pre-Macworld dinner in San Francisco... they don't let me play with the big kid toys. :-)

I get the print WSJ at the day job but I didn't have the subscription label here to sign in!

You'd think an industry news site like yours could pony up for the WSJ subscription. You just wait around for a reader to tip you on stuff like this?

That's it - WSJ is gospel. This is incredible for me as I'm on Cingular and month-to-month. Halle-f'n-lujah. Sorry guys, but maybe it's just a 6-month exclusive, so don't get too down.

I'm with all of you. I hated Cingular and will NEVER go back to them, even if they are the only ones offering an Apple iPhone. T-Mobile would great, the other carriers I would do as I have no experience with them, but Cingular is a big "Hell no!" from me.

Funny. I'm about to use the SMS text messaging fee increase (and they're charging for incoming now, too!) to get out of my current contract with Cingular... I was hoping to move back to T-Mobile. So I was really wanting this to be an unlocked phone with no carrier required. Ah, well, maybe I'll cut a new contract with Cingular after all. Depends on how good the phone is. If it's crippled like the Motorola iTunes-capable ones were, obviously no dice.

"Am I the only one who's *not* looking forward to the so-called iPhone? It would be Apple doing exactly what we expect them to do; how un-Apple like."

Apple-snobs. The reason I avoided apple for so many years.

So wait? It'll have one-way video calling? You can't see the other person?

Still, I'll take that if that's all I can get :-)

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:D

I'm SURE it isn't this phone Cingular will be demonstrating.