The iPhone Collective

[cslittle999]

How do you know if you can upgrade?

http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=1574 and look at the Pricing tab.

Basically if you spend more than $99 per month and have had the phone for 12 to 18 months you can upgrade. For an extra $200 you can upgrade early (I would just wait the few months).

 

[*KeepMovingForward*]

How do you know if you can upgrade?

Call customer service or visit an AT&T store and they will look at your contract to determine if you are eligible for the upgrade. I believe there has to be 6 months or less left on your current contract. When we upgraded we heard them tell several people they would be eligible to upgrade in x days or weeks.

 

[bidnow5]

I got my phone last November and will be able to get a new one next April

 

[yitbos96bb]

http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=1574 and look at the Pricing tab.

Basically if you spend more than $99 per month and have had the phone for 12 to 18 months you can upgrade. For an extra $200 you can upgrade early (I would just wait the few months).

Yeah, I'm glad they decided to make the exception. Granted they were bombarded by angry Iphone fans too. But it makes standing in line for 4 hours in 90 degree heat with little shade last year on launch day a little more worth it. At least they had free water bottles.

 

[Disneybridein2k3]

Call customer service or visit an AT&T store and they will look at your contract to determine if you are eligible for the upgrade. I believe there has to be 6 months or less left on your current contract. When we upgraded we heard them tell several people they would be eligible to upgrade in x days or weeks.

I got DH his 3G in Dec '08 and he can get the new 3GS on his birthday, August 5th. I'm thinking, easy peasy birthday gift idea! I should probably mention we have two iPhones and one regular phone (for DD15) with a family plan where we share 1400 minutes, unlimited texting, and the thing that allows me to control when my daughter can use her phone so we pay $190/mo to At&t when it is all said and done.

 

[Nicole786]

Not sure if this has been mentioned but if you have an iPhone looking to see if you are upgrade eligible, you can call *NEW# and AT&T will send you a free text message to tell you.

 

[smphbear]

Also, if you are close to upgrade eligibility, it might be worth a phone call.

I was 5 days away from being able to upgrade to the 3GS on launch day. I had a junky LG Shine. The initial answer was if I wanted anything other than an IPhone he could do it. I asked him nicely if a supervisor might be able to approve it. He submitted the request. A lady called within 30 minutes. She said it was being reviewed, but it could take up to 72 hours. She said they were very busy (all the current Iphone owners were calling). I figure I was just going to have to wait. She called back within an hour and said I was approved. I did have to go to the local store to pre-order it, but they were helpful.

 

[*KeepMovingForward*]

I got DH his 3G in Dec '08 and he can get the new 3GS on his birthday, August 5th. I'm thinking, easy peasy birthday gift idea! I should probably mention we have two iPhones and one regular phone (for DD15) with a family plan where we share 1400 minutes, unlimited texting, and the thing that allows me to control when my daughter can use her phone so we pay $190/mo to At&t when it is all said and done.

That's what we have, the family talk with unlimited texting & 1400 shared minutes although I don't do the parental control thing on my kids phones. We have three 3G and two 3GS phones and we pay $255 a month. I got DH the 3GS for a Father's Day gift. He swore he didn't need an upgrade, but was very happy when I surprised him with it. I'm sure your DH will love his for his bday.

 

[OKW Lover]

I read a helpful site on another board on adding GMT to your world clock. I searched for "GMT", "Greenwich", "Zulu time", all to no avail. I looked on the other board and it was suggested to search for "UTC" for "Universal Coordinated Time". I did that and it worked like a charm. Now I have Zulu time on my world clock!

This is also a good tip for those that want to "follow" Pete & Walter on their sojourn to Australia. Just put Sydney (or which ever city they are going to be near) as a location in your iPhone world clock.

 

[wendyinoc]

There are so many awesome apps I have to give a plug to this one. Its pretty cool how you can control your PC with your ITOUCH or IPHONE.

 

[yitbos96bb]

There are so many awesome apps I have to give a plug to this one. Its pretty cool how you can control your PC with your ITOUCH or IPHONE.

Yeah... I love Winadmin for my job. Lets you RDP into servers and PCs from my iphone.

 

[doctorhead]

speaking of bookmarking sites to the homescreen, this can be very useful now that the iphone has Spotlight with the 3.0 update. before since you have to scroll through each screen to get to an app on a later page, i would try to squeeze everything on 3 screens. now with spotlight, i have about 7 or 8 screens that are separated into categories. the first page is my most used apps (facebook, quicken, kindle, amazon, calendar, ipod, notes, accuweather, urbanspoon, flixster, tv forecast, aim, contacts, clock, remote, settings).
the next page is also filled with some of my favorites (app store, maps, photos, camera, calculator, youtube, voice memos, ap mobile, ebay, dvr remote, aroundme, boxee, google, grocery iq, aaa discounts, phoneflix).
starting with the 3rd page i have some miscellaneous apps that don't fit into another category (fandango, moviefone, mylite, mywireless, pandora, shazam, skype, snaptell, wikipanion, tweetie, whitenoise).
4th page is all my medical apps (epocrates, medcalc, pepid, cardio calc, heme calc, medical calc, dxsaurus, skyscape, taber's).
the next page is games/fun apps (hausofgaga, falling gems, thereminator, woooo button, icanhascheezburger, shotgun, slasher, atomicfart, amateur surgeon, live365).
the next page has all of the webpages i've saved to my homescreen (google reader, tivo, gmail, kindle store, imdb, southwest, apple).
the last page is the apps i don't use, but i can't get rid of (itunes, weather, stocks).
even though all my webpages are saved on like the 6th page, all i have to do is click the home button, and it opens spotlight. i type gm and then gmail pops up. or i type ki and kindle store and the kindle app pop up to choose from. it's very handy.

 

[Renysmom]

For those who cruise (and who here would ever do that?) there is a DCL Hidden Mickey App. Just search Disney Cruise.

Havent bought it yet but will before we sail this fall.

 

[cathyge]

Hi all,

I just finished reading the entire thread - wow - lots of info. I just purchased my first iphone earlier this month and was able to switch it for the 3GS because I didn't know the new one was coming out. (forgive my lack of knowledge)

Anyway, I am definitely converted over to the darkside. This is my first apple purchase ever.

I read in earlier posts - about some Disney apps. What are the must haves for Disney?

Thanks

 

[daneenm]

Anyway, I am definitely converted over to the darkside. This is my first apple purchase ever.

No, no....you are converting FROM the Darkside

 

[Mickey's Best Girl]

Slightly OT.

I must admit I haven't read through this entire thread so I apologize if this question has been asked and answered.

Long story short: 2 week trip to WDW coming up in Nov. and the goal is to pack light (ya right). The portable dvd player is staying home! My DD is not pleased with this decision, she'll get over it.
I was looking into purchasing the Apple Composite AV cable so we can still watch movies on the resort tvs through our iTouch (it apparently charges them while watching too). Does anyone have any experience with the av cable, do the movies get distorted? Any info. would be appreciated!
TIA

 

[Joan S.]

Hi, My family is heading to Universal and WDW next week. My DS is the one with the IPHONE and I am also looking for ANY Disney apps?? Thanks, Joan

 

[GBShorts]

Slightly OT.

I must admit I haven't read through this entire thread so I apologize if this question has been asked and answered.

Long story short: 2 week trip to WDW coming up in Nov. and the goal is to pack light (ya right). The portable dvd player is staying home! My DD is not pleased with this decision, she'll get over it.
I was looking into purchasing the Apple Composite AV cable so we can still watch movies on the resort tvs through our iTouch (it apparently charges them while watching too). Does anyone have any experience with the av cable, do the movies get distorted? Any info. would be appreciated!
TIA

I have it and it's fantastic. No distortion (at least on mine), and I use it to plug into an LCD projector at work to show things to my kids on a big screen. I say go for it! It does come with a wall charger plug or you can use it to charge through your computer as well (it has an iPod end and the red/white/yellow RCA cables as well as the USB cord at the other end). What's nice about this is that you don't need to bring a separate charger, you can just bring that cable and the charger plug (or leave the plug at home if you have a laptop with you!).

 

[disneymom8589]

I just got an I-Phone tonight and am excited to read through this thread to see what apps there are available. DH has several Disney apps on his phone, so I'll see what he has and add those to mine!

 

[dkostel]

Highly addictive game alert - TouchPhysics

Fun game where you draw things to help move the circle to the star (like boulders, levers, etc). It is only $2.99 but I think there is a free version with 6 levels to try. Not since Peggle have I wasted my time so thoroughly.