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Unless you're stuck with an early termination fee to switch to AT&T, I'd say at $199 you can't go wrong with an iPhone. Even if you're not developing software

by frankus 18y ago

Unless you're stuck with an early termination fee to switch to AT&T, I'd say at $199 you can't go wrong with an iPhone. Even if you're not developing software for it, it's a damned good phone (easily the best I've ever used in terms of sound quality, reception, and battery life). AFAIK the development environment blows away that of any other mobile platform. But there is that bit about forking out $99 for a signing key to use your own code on your own phone, unless you go the jailbreak route.

agotterer 18y ago
My contract has been up for over a yr with Verizon. So switching wont be a problem. I just didn't want to regret getting the iPhone if Android was coming out soon (which doesn't seem to be the case). But it seems like no one is waiting around for Android. I will def be playing with the SDK if I get the phone.
allenbrunson 18y ago
... and even if you are willing to fork out 100 bucks for the key, Apple probably won't give you one. According to their own numbers, 25k people asked for one, they handed out only 4k keys, and won't be giving out anymore until some unspecified point in the future. ALSO, I've heard from other parties that if you use the key to install apps on an iPhone, you can't make calls with it anymore. A current limitation of the SDK development process that will likely be fixed in the future, I bet. In other words, you don't want to buy an iPhone because you think you're going to use Xcode to whip yourself up some simple apps and install them on your phone. The situation right now is suitable only to hardcore types.