There are 66 different plans available to potential iPhone 4 customers, so it’s easy to get confused as to what plan best suits your needs. Fortunately, Gus over at Lifehacker has put his absurd Excel skills to good use and created the ultimate iPhone 4 table, which you should check out before you think about queuing up for a new iPhone on Thursday night. [Lifehacker]
Jase
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 9:30 AMFor me, the Optus $59 cap with the 32 gig iPhone is the best value but in the last few days I’ve read comment after comment about how terrible Optus’s coverage is. I’ve been with Optus for 2 years with an iPhone 3g (living in Brisbane) and I haven’t really had any complaints. I rarely have full bars but I also rarely have drop-outs. I don’t have a nextG phone to compare with but is what I’ve been reading all hoopla? Is this 900mhz thing really going to make a difference? Or are Telstras plans actually worth consdering? Some expert advice would be greatly appreciated!
cflow
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 9:47 AMSpeaking as a long time Telstra account holder and a new Optus user I would definitely recommend the change to Optus. I am in Melbourne and live in the outer suburbs, but work in the city and I used to have lots of dropped connections and bad connections with my Nokia N95 with Telstra. I don’t blame the phone…
I changed to Optus on a 12 month plan (for a test drive) with a 3GS iPhone and couldn’t be happier. There are some small differences in signal from Telstra – sometimes the strength of signal is patchy, but I have never been unable to make a call when needed and I am always reachable.
Jero
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 9:38 AMDoes anybody know if Apple will be selling the Iphone4 on their website on Friday? I cannot get to an Apple store
Bruce Burton
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 6:04 PMApple store in Sydney said NO. You have to go to a store. Try some of your Telstra shops though, even though they say they are only on plans, some of them will sell outright
Joseph Lefoe
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 10:09 AMBah Iphone 4 is crappy, so they haven’t fixed anything in this product, haven’t sorted the antenna issue. So tell me whats the point in buying this product over a Samsung Galaxy or any other android device that does not have major design flaws in which the manufacturer just sticks their head in the sand. I say this and yet I still own a Iphone 3g, which at least I can hold any way I like. But all in all after owning a Iphone 3g, I won’t buy any more Apple products, nothing I hate more than a closed locked in system (jailbroke it within 5 minutes of owning it), Itunes is an abomination on any windows machine (due to poor coding, sad to say Windows Media Player does a better job and its terrible!). Open Source ftw!
Google phones are the way of the future!
X
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 10:58 AMSo you’re saying you’ve never bothered to have a case around your iPhone as insurance if you’ve dropped it?
Anyone who doesn’t have a case is a fool.
Bryan
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 3:39 PMDo you mean the Google phone, that Google no longer sells? Or an Android phone where you’re restricted by the manufacturer allowing the version upgrade (I’m looking at you Vodafone)?
adam
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 4:38 PMhehe was thinking of getting a case this time,looks better(giving some color)and as an experienced 3g user.. yes iphone was the most fragile phone ive ever had… power button,side buttons fell off after just less than 2yrs, mainbotton water damaged easily.. have to admit I dropped a couple of times.. mainly indoor thou.. grown up with mobile phones since 12yo! now going 27.. used countless phones but there was no phone i stopped using coz it’s broken..
Never tried Google phones or android.. but seems some ppl are in favor with it! must check it out!
TOTALLY in favor of Jailbreaking !! hahaha
disgusting itune
am getting iphone4.. coz.. as I mentioned above.. I haven’t had a chance to experience google or android.. wanna retrieve all my data stored in iphone.. (i dunno how to transfer data to pc from tune!) but i phone was the phone I had the most fun time with.. lots of apps and.. quite useful when i was traveling EU, using Wifi..
Not defending iphone but just hoping that problem only happens in US coz AT&T’s coverage sounded not so good…
think no major antena problems in JAP or UK..
Let us know what phone u had a fun the most with!
cheers ^__^
Katie
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 10:57 AMiPhone 4 32GB on 79 Optus Cap FTW, I was going to go 59, but its ten dollar handset fees, so why not cough up an extra 10 bucks and get the better value I reckon. Switching over from 3, their plans just really disappointed me
adam
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 3:14 PM:) haha im on optus & 3g upgrading but thinking of switching to THREE~! $49,32GB!
Katie
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 4:24 PMI think the two are fairly comparable, I was on the 49 cap for my 3GS but I really want unlimted messaging, as thats where the bulk of my credit goes :D
Pancake
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 11:10 AMI think I’ll be buying a 16gb outright from Apple and sticking with the tpg pay as you go plan with 150mb free.
ArtWest
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 11:48 AMIs there any word on how much insurance will add onto the cost of the phone each month?
ArtWest
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 11:57 AMLooks like the Optus insurance cost is $13.99/month…does that sound right? It seems like alot.
Source – http://bit.ly/TpQLN
Scott
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 12:58 PMYou can get insurance through http://www.phoneinsure.com.au (same company Virgin uses for insurance) for $100 for 12 months if you buy the insurance within 14 days. There’s also http://www.protecsure.com.au, however I’m vary wary of the wording that they can choose to pay you the purchase price of the phone in the event of loss, vs replacing the phone. If you get the phone on a contract, I’d be concerned that they would pay you an amount far less than what it would cost to replace the phone.
adam
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 3:17 PMabsolute rip off! and a friend of mine STILL had to pay a couple of hundred bucks for repair!
Random
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 3:59 PMVodafone just called me and asked me to pre order as I am a premium cust I will have my phone delivered on Friday morning , now that voda are calling the premium cust and pre ordering the phones what’s going to be left for the plebs in line
Bob
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at 10:24 PMinclude your phone on your home and contents insurance. it is cheaper
Peter Nomikos
Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 12:08 PMLooks like Telstra has updated its data allowance on its plans since yesterday (28/7), according to one of its blogs:
http://exchange.telstra.com.au/?p=5773
They’ve upped the allowance on the $79 plan I’m looking at to 1MB per month. If this has happened overnight, telstra must really want those iPhone customers.
I have 2 iPhones and i’m looking at switching to Telstra for the better network coverage, however, they have very little detail on their website compared to Optus.
Details i want to look at is:
1) How much Telstra charges for voice mail deposits and retrievals
2) Is tethering available and how much is it? Will downloaded data via tethering be included as part of the data allowance?
3) Will the phone be locked to Telstra after contract and is there a charge to unlock it.