TUAW Poll: What are you doing with your original iPhone?
After looking over the iPhone 3G information here on TUAW and on the AT&T website yesterday, I started thinking about what my wife and I should do with our "old" original iPhones. Without a SIM and phone service, the original iPhone essentially becomes an iPod touch. You can still update it to the new software when it arrives, you can use it with Wi-Fi in your home, and you can use it to watch video and listen to tunes.
By keeping the old iPhone as an iPhone touch, I can get rid of some of the old iPods I have scattered around the house. What are you going to do with your iPhone after July 11th?
| Use it as an iPod touch | |
|---|---|
| eBay, baby!!! | |
| Adding it to my museum of old Apple stuff | |
| Use it to shim up my patio table | |
| Give it to my kid without phone service | |
| Give it to my kid with phone service | |
| Wait - I don't have a kid! | |
| Use it to control my insane robot army | |
| I don't have an iPhone, new OR old | |
| It's my expensive digital camera! |
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After looking over the iPhone 3G information here on TUAW and on the AT&T website yesterday, I started thinking about what my wife and...
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You guys have no idea how much this thread has helped me. Over here in Aus, the new iPhone is $929 unlocked and I have been driving myself crazy trying to decide whether to upgrade or not. Seeing that other people are going to do the same thing as me(continue using my PERFECTLY GOOD original iPhone), I now find it so much easier just to say no to iPhone 3g, for the timebeing anyway.
July 06 2008 at 10:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHow about... Send it me. I'd like an iPhone, even if it is the previous gen. :)
July 03 2008 at 9:08 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAssuming I am upgrading, of which I am not 100% on yet, mainly depending on my paycheck this Friday. My old one will be going to my mom, not old enough for kids yet... well, college, so I guess I am old enough, but I don't have any. Lol. She doesn't want to pay for Data though, so *Shrug* Rather have her use it than have it inevitably sit on some shelf. I also conveniently have zero friends on AT&T, so any selling or giving to friends is out. Plus, I have an emotional connection to my first iPhone, so I prefer to keep it in the family. :-)
July 03 2008 at 2:10 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI sold my AAPL today, took a nice 25% gain since I purchased it. When the market comes out of the crapper I'll probably get back into AAPL. Right now it's just not a good time....
July 02 2008 at 11:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyKevin,
It's buy low, not sell low.
You may have seen a 25% rise in share price, but you're going to lose a portion of that come april 15th, as you've to to pay capital gains taxes on your profit. And if you want to reinvest later, well, if you buy shares using only the money you got from this sale, you'll still be at a loss, unless you buy at a lower price... not when the market "comes out of the crapper," as you put it. Now is the time to buy more---10k buys more shares at 170 than it does at 200.
if i give my old phone to my woman, can she use it without a data plan?
July 02 2008 at 11:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyLike a huge number have already said, whats the point of upgrading? To pay an extra $15 per month for the few moments I'll be in a 3G area? No thanks. I'll keep the good old version 1 iPhone and enjoy the 2.0 software. Maybe someday if AT&T manages to get 3 coverage to a useable level. ... but by then we'll be up to iPhone v9.
July 02 2008 at 10:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI'm staying with my iPhone1 and original contract for as long as I can. I think the existing rates are already high so I wasn't pleased to see the new rates go up (I'm with ATT). Although I don't SMS much, the SMS rates are simply criminal (not just with ATT) considering that the bandwidth requirements for text are much below voice - the government needs to put a halt to this nonsense. $30/month for 3G data is also above my budget - I'm not a huge mobile data user so 2G @ $20/month is more than enough for me. I think ATT should continue to offer the option for the $20/month edge rate plan for those who can't afford 3G - just limit their speed.
July 02 2008 at 9:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyKeep my old one... No upgrading for me...
July 02 2008 at 8:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI'll be keeping my first gen 16 GB iPhone Wi-Fi as well. I have wi-fi 80-90 % of the time, so 3G isn't really an upgrade for me. The real upgrade is in the iPhone 2.0 firmware upgrade. I'll keep the extra $15 per month and enjoy the same features.
I'm keeping mine. No 3g network here, I'm paying $300 plus an extra $10 a month for just GPS.
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