When I lost my Motorola ROKR E8 last month, Dean hooked me up with a jailbroken first gen iphone. It works great on T-Mobile so I can finish out my contract. BTW, Nick, you were right, my early termination fee would only be $50 at this point.
I've been paying $45/mo for 600 anytime minutes and 300 texts. Last night I realized I was about to go over 300 texts and I was only ~10 days into the billing period. So I called T-mobile and after much finaggling with a mostly incapable CSR, I got the following deal to finish out my contract which is up in September.
$59.99/mo for 500 anytime minutes, unlimited text and data (throttled after 2GB though). Thing is, I doubt throttling would effect me even if it were possible for me to download 2GB of anything in one month. I'm barely beating dialup as per the SpeedTest.net test I just did. It's kind of expected since the first gen Iphone can only use Edge though.
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Test Date: Jun 6, 2011 10:54 AM
Connection Type: Cellular
Server: Modesto, CA
Download: 97 kbps
Upload: 50 kbps
Ping: 801 ms
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Anyway, this is a semi-cheap way for me to be introduced to the world of smartphones. I intend to pay less per month for a nice unlimited voice, data and text setup with Boost Mobile with a cheap Droid phone in Sept. if nothing more attractive catches my eye at that time. That experience should be much better than Edge on an old iphone.