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Trading my iPhone for a Tilt (or anyother phone for that matter)

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Posted by: erik b

Hey guys and gals, I have been searching and searching, but I am only finding bits and pieces of what I am looking for. I am looking for what the procedure is for leaving an iPhone for a non-iphone. When I switch phnes I know I will lose the data, which is fine, but will the person getting my iphone just be able to pop in there SIM and just switch to an iPhone data plan? This is my sister getting it so I am not worried about my name being all over the phone, I really don't want her to have to sign up for a new contract if she wants it activated under her name. This is why i hope she can just use her existing SIM and keep all the info under me. What am I missing? I know it is not just a straight swap, so please any info would help. Thanks!


Posted by: SWThomas

Is this iPhone hacked? If so what's been done to it?


Posted by: erik b

this just a locked iPhone from AT&T


Posted by: xbox360gamer

here's what she'll have to do.

go to an AT&T store and have them give her a new SIM card. she'll then insert the new SIM card and hook it up to iTunes. she'll then need to activate it under her number within iTunes. of course this will now put her under a 2yr contract.


Posted by: BornineastLA

are you hoping that her SIM card will somehow tie her into your account so she wont have to sign a contract or activate it under her name??


Posted by: erik b

I am hoping she does not have to sign a new contract. All i want her to do is just put in her old SIM and change her data plan to an iPhone plan.


Posted by: hotr32

Quote:
Originally Posted by erik b
I am hoping she does not have to sign a new contract. All i want her to do is just put in her old SIM and change her data plan to an iPhone plan.

unless you search and hack the iPhone so it will use just any existing sim card your sister can only activate it through itunes which will make her extend for 2 more years.


Posted by: MaskU2See

Mind me Asking why you are switching from iphone to the Tilt?
I am about to throw away 6 years with Tmobile and getting a 2
year with at&t mostly for the ipone...


Posted by: erik b

The Tilt is 3G, MMS, Windows mobile, it is more of a PDA. The iPhone is just not living up to its potential right now.


Posted by: melmac

Quote:
Originally Posted by erik b
The Tilt is 3G, MMS, Windows mobile, it is more of a PDA. The iPhone is just not living up to its potential right now.



I ditched my Tilt. WM6 was unstable as hell (2-3x reboots a day min.), 3G ain't fast enough to be a deal breaker, and screen was eons behind the iPhones. Granted the iPhone is a less endowed phone featurewise, but the phone and iPod funtionality outweighed the flakeyness of the Tilt for me personally. Def glad I traded it for the iPhone in the first 30 days


Posted by: RIY

I traded my tilt for an iphone and couldn't be happier.
True tilt has 3g and more pda features which I really liked but unless 3g is really solid in your area be carefull about no service dropped calls etc. The tilt tries to hang onto the 3g signal until the last possible moment even in 5bar edge coverage. I even tried a hack with no joy. There is no setting on the tilt to force to edge only.

Good luck


Posted by: hellomoto_25

After using the iPhone for over 6 months I went to the Tilt. That lasted 2 days and I was back to an iPhone.

The Tilt does have 3G but what I found is that it didn't really load pages any faster. File downloads were faster and that was about it.

The size and build quality of the Tilt was far inferior.

I've used plenty of WM devices (HTC Wizard/8125/K-Jam, Prophet/JAMin/S200, TyTN/Hermes/8525 and now the Keiser/TyTN II/Tilt/8925) so I know what to expect as far as quality goes. The Tilt felt cheap.


Posted by: BeyondTheTech

After 3-4 months with the iPhone from its release date, I jumped to a Tilt after I heard of the Tilt's impressive specs: 3G, 128MB of RAM, Windows Mobile 6, BlackBerry Connect and PTT, integrated GPS/BT/WiFi, all in nearly same size as i-mate JAM (my most cherished Pocket PC Phone), etc. (The keyboard wasn't really all that important to me.)

Then, after two months with the Tilt, the honeymoon period was over, and the intuitiveness of the iPhone and the apparent lack of on the Tilt (and every WM device in retrospect) was enough to win me back. No more fumbling with Opera 4 mini beta for a half-decent Internet experience, precise tapping with a stylus instead of a finger, unrealistically sluggish response when dialing/making/receiving calls, unexplained lockups, and horrible management and playback of media.

Now, I'm always loaded up with 5 movies in rotation, 6000 photos and growing, 200 random songs, and I move seamlessly between all of them, plus my calls and my browsing. Amazing how the in first generation they nearly got everything right. Microsoft is coming up on their 7th and 8th iterations, and well... you get the picture.


Posted by: ustna

You might also want to look at the Moto Q9h (Q Global). I had an iPhone and sold it and got a Nokia n95-3, sold it and I am loving my new Q Global. WM6 Standard is not nearly as buggy as WM6 Professional.


Posted by: Donnation

Won't the OP have to pay a fee to change his plan. I thought you were locked into the iPhone plan for two years and couldnt get out of it without paying the cancellation fee.


Posted by: XFF

No, it's just a 2-year contract, but not necessarily tied to the iPhone. He can switch to another handset anytime.


Posted by: XFF

What exactly is the deal with a non-jailbroken iPhone? It won't accept any SIM other than what it was activated with through iTunes? Not even another AT&T SIM? Not even another AT&T iPhone SIM?


Posted by: tryn2getaclu

eric_b - You might want to verify this. I am still a vzw customer and starting to research switching to an iPhone. I called AT&T customer support and used the menu to choose NEW service. I asked the rep about porting over to another quad-band gsm I have on a prepaid basis. The service is the exact same price ($39.99 for 450 minutes, 5000 N&W w/rollover). Then I asked what if I subsequently get an iPhone (or iPhone2 if such should come out soon) and she said I could simply put the prepaid SIM into the iPhone and it would work just fine. If I want the data, I can call AT&T to add the data package for an additional $20 (unlimited data + 200 text messages) bringing the total to$59.99 witht he exact same service inclusions as the contract price. She specifically stated that the web site does not mention iPhone can be used with the prepaid service (NO CONTRACT) at the exact same price but that it certainly can be done.

Before anyone blasts me, please verify this information. I am simply repeating what I was told. I have not actually tried to make the switch yet and will wait for macworld to see if a 2 is announced. I do not declare any of this as truth but I suspect that if the rep stated it so emphatically, it just might be legit.


Posted by: hellomoto_25

I'm sure we aren't the only WM guys that converted to the iPhone for good. neo001 (one of the biggest anti iPhone advocates) joined us a while back.

Quote:
Originally Posted by BeyondTheTech
After 3-4 months with the iPhone from its release date, I jumped to a Tilt after I heard of the Tilt's impressive specs: 3G, 128MB of RAM, Windows Mobile 6, BlackBerry Connect and PTT, integrated GPS/BT/WiFi, all in nearly same size as i-mate JAM (my most cherished Pocket PC Phone), etc. (The keyboard wasn't really all that important to me.)

Then, after two months with the Tilt, the honeymoon period was over, and the intuitiveness of the iPhone and the apparent lack of on the Tilt (and every WM device in retrospect) was enough to win me back. No more fumbling with Opera 4 mini beta for a half-decent Internet experience, precise tapping with a stylus instead of a finger, unrealistically sluggish response when dialing/making/receiving calls, unexplained lockups, and horrible management and playback of media.

Now, I'm always loaded up with 5 movies in rotation, 6000 photos and growing, 200 random songs, and I move seamlessly between all of them, plus my calls and my browsing. Amazing how the in first generation they nearly got everything right. Microsoft is coming up on their 7th and 8th iterations, and well... you get the picture.



Posted by: magick21

I went from the treo 750 to the tilt to the Blackjack 2 to the Iphone, and I couldnt be happier, 3g was only useful for slingplayer, otherwise none of those phones can hold a candle to the Iphone. Before you make any rash decisions, I would wait until february when the SDK kits are released and the speculated 1.1.3 firmware upgrade is released.




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