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I'm going to join that "dump the carrier" crowd in six weeks when my T-Mobile Blackberry contract runs out. :p

A lot of people complained about the increased overall price, but i find shelling less upfron works out better for me. And when you look at ALL the function iPhone has to offer (iPod, ebook reader, Maps, internet browser...), it's really well worth it. And those quibbling about the price, weren't really in the market for a smart phone to begin with. I ditched Sprint back in January, and i haven't regretted a single penny of the $400. Money well spent. And i'm looking forward to my next iPhone purchase... :)

The iphone is amazing. I can do anything with it. I had a jailbroken of the original, but the 3g is just ridiculous, and I had to have it. I do tons of things including watching videos and listening to lots of mp3s. The internet adult enterainment industry is really the biggest winner in all of this, with more than $131 billion in profit by 2011...sites like http://iphone-porn.us and other ones like pornhub are surely the happiest in this most recent run on the applestore.

In my case, I was going to leave Verizon for AT&T (for better coverage where I am most of the time) anyhow. I held off a couple of months after end of contract for the iPhone to come out. (No temptation to go to the 3G iPhone, as we don't have 3G where I spend most of my time.)
Had I decided against iPhone, I would have gone with one form or another of AT&T's "GoPhone". The extra iPhone features are nice; but all I need is phone and incoming SMS (for pages).

I held off buying the first one until they moved to 3G. I still maintain a Verizon Famiy Share plan. The missing copy, paste, missing MMS and various minor bugs, I can live with, this phone really synchronizes my digital life. However, the AT&T 3G area and the lower call quality even after getting a new sim, and a 2nd 3G iPhone, the carrier has not been all that they claim. I'm in the 07657 to 07407, areas that the map claims are full 3G are not . It has been very disappointing service. Messages received out of time sequence and calls that went directly to voice mail without ever ringing are serious issues. The 2.1 update has made a huge improvement, but has not come close to the reliability of Verizon, in my area anyway. It still has to serve it prime function, reliable communication.

A more interesting note might be how many people ditched AT&T and went back to their prior carrier after a bad experience with the iPhone 3G/AT&T combo. Like me.

Since I hated my iPhone 3G and AT&T's "service" as of the last day for avoiding the early termination fee (and still do), I tried to call Sprint about either getting back on my old plan or signing up for a new one. The old plan was no longer available (as expected) and the new plans both suck and are just about as expensive as AT&T's. They also appeared to have no interest in bringing back a customer.

Wait till they get a taste of the horrible AT&T service. I had been a Verizon subscriber through my job since 2000 and had a Blackberry 8830 most recently and many other phones through the years. The service was excellent and the call quality always good. Since March I have a new job and a Blackberry 8820 (virtually the same as the 8830) with AT&T service. It is terrible. Many dead areas, the Edge internet service is barely usable and the number of dropped calls in ridiculous. I have coveted an iPhone since they arrived, but having now used AT&T, I will only buy one if they allow Verizon as a carrier.

I have always used Verizon since the 1988 Tops $199 GE in car phone. Back then it was still Bell Atlantic on the east coast, before telephone deregulation round x. I hardly knew anyone who had ATT. Nut the people I did know had only positive things to say. Maybe they just didn't know better service was available. One thing that is clear, cool phones always came to Verizon last. Money was the obvious first reason. But the second reason, which Verizon reps claim is the only reason, is the wait and see bug fixed and picking the real popularity winner to make the deals for their cut in keeping the handset makers product in the cash cow phase a little longer. Whatever the reason, it's working well enough for the to turn up their noses at Apple when opportunity was presented. I'm not altogether certain Apple had much choice given the stability issues that lead them back into ATT after the aquisition. One could only speculate the phenominal growth that might have transpired if Verizon opted to support GSM earlier rather than later, and saw fit to pay Apple's Vig.
Sadly, it's always the early adopteds who suffer from company growing pains. Believe it or not, there are some really happy/lucky people who live in the perfect places and don't have a clue why we are less than thrilled with our experience. Conditions are improving and ATT is catching up, just wish it would happen a little faster. With every impovement, I find myself unable to think of life without this incredibly portable network device.

I have always used Verizon since the 1988 Tops $199 GE in car phone. Back then it was still Bell Atlantic on the east coast, before telephone deregulation round x. I hardly knew anyone who had ATT. But the people I did know had only positive things to say. Maybe they just didn't know better service was available. One thing that is clear, cool phones always came to Verizon last. Money was the obvious first reason. But the second reason, which Verizon reps claim is the only reason, is the wait and see bug fixed and picking the real popularity winner to make the deals for their cut in keeping the handset makers product in the cash cow phase a little longer. Whatever the reason, it's working well enough for the to turn up their noses at Apple when opportunity was presented. I'm not altogether certain Apple had much choice given the stability issues that lead them back into ATT after the aquisition. One could only speculate the phenominal growth that might have transpired if Verizon opted to support GSM earlier rather than later, and saw fit to pay Apple's Vig.
Sadly, it's always the early adopteds who suffer from company growing pains. Believe it or not, there are some really happy/lucky people who live in the perfect places and don't have a clue why we are less than thrilled with our experience. Conditions are improving and ATT is catching up, just wish it would happen a little faster. With every impovement, I find myself unable to think of life without this incredibly portable network device.