>Apple’s iPhone ‘Activation & Sync Video’ Offers Better Monthly Plan Than Announced
While Apple’s new iPhone ‘Activation & Sync Video’ has mostly accurate information on their plans, the final review, right in the middle of Apple’s new iPhone Activation & Sync Video you’ll see the following:
Apple announced:
In general this is strange because they also show a $10 upgrade to 1500 SMS minutes in the same video:
It seems that the upgrade for a current AT&T customer to the iPhone data plan is $20 for 200 included SMS text messages, and $30 for 1500. What Apple showed above is a better deal than what is currently being offered for the iPhone so this is likely why it was changed. All of the data plans should have included 1500 SMS text messages.
AT&T’s unlimited plans currently include 1500 SMS text messages, and it looks like the Apple plans were going to include this many as well. But if you look at what is being offered… only 200 SMS text messages, this is shameful. These should be free to begin with, but SMS messages are a profit center for cellphone carriers, and instead of including Apple’s text messaging client ‘iChat’ as part of the unlimited internet plan, they are using the expensive SMS messaging. You only get 200 SMS text messages (incoming or outgoing) on the current plan, and according to an AT&T representative, any additional text messages are $.10 each.
For more information about how SMS text messages, especially only 200 is not only restrictive, but potentially manipulative in causing higher cellphone bills with the iPhone, stay tuned for my next blog to be posted later tonight.
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