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Ok. Just to level set, this post isn't for information about hacking iPhones, sticking it to the telco, or stealing service or the like.
I have an IPod touch that I carry around as a convenient tool for music, casual reading (yes, I have an iPad that is much better for that, but it doesn't fit in a pocket) and sometimes surfing when I am in a wifi zone. I have liked it since I bought it. Unfortunately, it is old and the battery is going.
So, I can get a used IPhone 3gs for peanuts and that is effectively the same as a touch, except that it is a phone also. I don't consider a phone to be a social tool, so I have an ordinary Go Phone that I pay by the minute and I probably average a minute a week. I have no interest in cellular data. By using the 3gs for both phone and touch, I can have it all in one package rather than two.
I took the sim card out of my non-smart (AT&T) phone and put it in the 3gs and it worked fine as a Go Phone, so I know that it works.
The question is, what does AT&T think about it? Do they care? Do their computers detect that I didn't buy a high dollar talk and data plan and they cut off all service? Get really mad and send a crew to my house and cut the hard line into twelve inch pieces all the way to the house, then shoot the cat?
Ask AT&T you say? That would be like asking your mother if you can stay out till 12 on a school night. Questions I know the answer to I don't need to ask, right?
Google, of course is your friend. And surfing on the subject I got the following answers in just about equal amounts - yes, no, maybe, sometimes, always and "I thought you could GO with all cell phones."
Anybody done this for real?
I have an IPod touch that I carry around as a convenient tool for music, casual reading (yes, I have an iPad that is much better for that, but it doesn't fit in a pocket) and sometimes surfing when I am in a wifi zone. I have liked it since I bought it. Unfortunately, it is old and the battery is going.
So, I can get a used IPhone 3gs for peanuts and that is effectively the same as a touch, except that it is a phone also. I don't consider a phone to be a social tool, so I have an ordinary Go Phone that I pay by the minute and I probably average a minute a week. I have no interest in cellular data. By using the 3gs for both phone and touch, I can have it all in one package rather than two.
I took the sim card out of my non-smart (AT&T) phone and put it in the 3gs and it worked fine as a Go Phone, so I know that it works.
The question is, what does AT&T think about it? Do they care? Do their computers detect that I didn't buy a high dollar talk and data plan and they cut off all service? Get really mad and send a crew to my house and cut the hard line into twelve inch pieces all the way to the house, then shoot the cat?
Ask AT&T you say? That would be like asking your mother if you can stay out till 12 on a school night. Questions I know the answer to I don't need to ask, right?
Google, of course is your friend. And surfing on the subject I got the following answers in just about equal amounts - yes, no, maybe, sometimes, always and "I thought you could GO with all cell phones."
Anybody done this for real?