iPhone + cheap phone = good?

0m3g4Muff1n987 · Post by **0m3g4Muff1n987** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 3:12 pm

I found some time when my parents aren't around. I need to ask something. Once I work for a while and make back the $300 I lost when my touch got stolen, I thought maybe since my family uses Verizon, I could use one of the old super cheap cell phones we have without a camera or anything fancy. Then I could use an unactivated iPhone to compensate for the cheapness of my real crap phone, like the camera and everything because I normally only use my Razr to text and call people anyway. I could sell my razr for $100 to fill the gap in between the 300 dollar touch and 400 dollar iphone. Plus I'd get a speaker and mic and camera on my iphone, which are awesome and are what I wanted to be on the touch anyway.

Do you guys think it would work? Oh, one more thing. Does the iphone have built in wifi? So I wouldn't be left without internet if I got one (because the AT&T cellular internet wouldn't work >_>). I wouldn't want to get one to find out the only internet the iphone has relies on your carrier, and not wifi networks.

Dsoup · Post by **Dsoup** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 3:21 pm

Why'd you get your phone stolen in the first place?

Xiion · Post by **Xiion** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 3:25 pm

Dsoup wrote:Why'd you get your phone stolen in the first place?

gimme that neck >_>
you can't really choose to get something stolen of importance unless you wanted the insurance money, but obviously, he didn't plan for it to get stolen, as most people know.

CptnNsan0 · Post by **CptnNsan0** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 4:06 pm

I think theres a way you can use Verizon with your iphone. search Google. as for the wi-fi, I think it only has altel internet

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 4:30 pm

Well if you unlock the phone or whatever yeah you can use it, but there are some AT&T specific features that you won't be able to use (not huge things, but they're nice)

Dr.Cox · Post by **Dr.Cox** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:53 pm

Just Get cingular.

I am selling my touch and upgrading for the iphone in feb.

The Iphone has amazing pictures and videos(like taking them that is)

Got to the apple store and mob around on there samplesm, get a feel for it.

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:35 pm

Kirk wrote:Well if you unlock the phone or whatever yeah you can use it, but there are some AT&T specific features that you won't be able to use (not huge things, but they're nice)

There is, but apple will brick it. It happend to (I forget the exact figure) but it was either in the ten thousands or the hundred thousands. Not sure. They basically cut the people who changed the service provider, both on the AT&T side and the Apple side. basically rendering it useless.

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:40 pm

I think I read somewhere that Apple "blacklisted" credit cards of the people who used it on something other than AT&T.

Eh, close enough.

0m3g4Muff1n987 · Post by **0m3g4Muff1n987** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:25 pm

*sigh* Guys, I'm not trying to unlock the iphone for any other service, especially since you can't unlock it for verizon. I'm saying, I would get an iphone, not activate it, and use my old cheap verizon phone for calling people and texting. Then the iphone would be like an Ipod touch with the missing features I would have liked: speaker, side volume buttons, vibrate, and all that.

The reason I'm doing it is so I could have an uneven balance. Before, I had 2 good devices (ipod touch and a razr). Now I can get a crappy phone with no camera or anything, and an extremely 1337 iphone, with all the features of my old razr, all in one device.

The main use I would have for doing this is to obnoxiously blare my music from my iphone without having to plug in separate speakers everywhere I go (because I feel cool when people can hear my metal, all the time), and those Hottrix videos would work correctly. With the touch, you couldn't hear the bubbling of iBeer or the popping of iMunchies.

Plus, I could ACTUALLY SYNC THE PHOTOS I TAKE WITH MY FUCKING COMPUTER. God, other phones these days. With the iphone, I wouldn't have to send each and every pic took with my mobile "phone" that I want to put on myspace to my email as a PIX message. And finally, with the iphone, I wouldn't have to dig the thing out of my pocket and turn on the screen just to change the music volume. The volume control buttons (OMG! Buttons!) on the side would always be there.

By the way guys, I would most definitely jailbreak it, in case you were wondering. But only for the apps, not to use it on a different carrier, unless someone magically enables the iphone for CDMA networks. Which, by the way, is impossible.

So I ask, would this be a good idea? Would there be any problems, like buying an iphone to find that its only internet is through EDGE, and not Wi-Fi (because if my phone's not activated, I can't use edge.) And stuff like that.

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:27 pm

This CNET article implies that it has both EDGE and Wi-fi.

EDIT: Yeah, it has both.

0m3g4Muff1n987 · Post by **0m3g4Muff1n987** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:43 pm

Yummeh. Thanks much GTAF.

Oh yeah. I have another question. I remember something my dad told me the other night. He works for Avaya, the communications company. He met with a guy the other day who told him that at the end of January (or the beginning of February), Apple would be coming out with a 3G iPhone.

I told him my plan for getting an iPhone and a cheap verizon one, and he was like, "well, why don't we just switch to AT&T then?" I was surprised how quickly he just said this, but anyway, idk if our Verizon contract ends any time soon, but if I get an iPhone and our verizon contract ends, he might switch to AT&T. So my question is, most of my friends at school have Verizon, and I need to know if I get AT&T, will I still be able to receive txt messages, and pix messages from them? Because once I tried sending a pix message to my friend with sprint, and he couldn't see it. But sprint sucks, so will they work with AT&T?