So, what are you doing to prepare for iPhone 3G?

Mihai

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This will be my first iPhone so I don't really know what to do to prepare for it. I didn't have any experience in using one.
From what I've read here, I should organise my music, test several options for converting videos to be iPhone compatible (btw, what file format should be a video file to be played on an iPhone?) and what I'm really doing is finding some more money to buy one. I don't have yet all the money.
 

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Absolutely nothing. All my crap is in order already and since I've had my soon-to-be old school iPhone 2G since June 30th 2007, I will be able to import all my stuff from that phone into my new iPhone 3G once the latter lands.

I'm arriving in NYC at 7PM this Thursday and will be staying with a friend, who just moved into a new apartment in lower Manhattan, for the weekend. We're both getting iPhone 3G's and I'm looking for a weekend of iPhone 3G geekery, browsing the App Store at 3G speeds, testing the GPS in the middle of Manhattan, and first and foremost: getting wasted nightly--in NYC.

I couldn't be more excited.
 

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I was at an AT&T store yesterday and I asked if I could have my credit pre-approved and the sales guy said that even if I had it checked early they would still have to run it again on Friday.

Anyone else run into this?
 

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I was at an AT&T store yesterday and I asked if I could have my credit pre-approved and the sales guy said that even if I had it checked early they would still have to run it again on Friday.

Anyone else run into this?

That's interesting since at&t's youtube videos even say to do what you did to save time, I mean to be "iReady"
 

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if you think i started preparing this week your sadly mistaken... i've been at it full on for almost a month . . . but really i've been off an on for the whole year.

i've:​
  • started using addressbook
  • tried to get all my friends AIM, e-mail, and phone #s into one v-card
  • sorted the pics that i want to have on the phone into an album in iPhoto
  • Made a playlist with the music i want on the phone
  • started making ringtones with garageband
  • watching all the videos that i can find about iPhone
  • read every iPhone article i could load onto my computer . . .
  • and much more . . . i dont want to be a post hog . . .
 

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I plan on buying my phone from an Apple store and the guy at my at&t store told me to wait because Apple is going to run a credit check anyways so no point in getting pre-approved at at&t. I think I will have a better chance getting from an Apple store considering that at&t sold last year and Apple still had them in stock.
 

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1. Getting on my wife's AT&T individual account so I'm authorized to change it to a family account on July 11.
2. Selling my current iPod and LG phone on ebay.
3. Moving all of my calendars to iCal and contacts to Address Book from Google Calendar and GMail using the SpanningSync Demo.
4. Paring down the media I have on my 30GB iPod to fit onto my 16GB iPhone. (I needed to do this anyway.)
5. Investigating ways to get away with losing SMS (not willing to pay the extra $5/month) by using Mail, Twitterific for iPhone, and other web/native apps.
6. Making a tentative list of apps I'm going to buy from the App Store at launch, if possible.
7. Ordering a couple of cases.

I think that covers everything, although I'm probably missing a step.
 

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I plan on buying my phone from an Apple store and the guy at my at&t store told me to wait because Apple is going to run a credit check anyways so no point in getting pre-approved at at&t. I think I will have a better chance getting from an Apple store considering that at&t sold last year and Apple still had them in stock.

That's exactly what the AT&T guy told me too. I wanted to get it out of the way, but if they say wait, I'll wait.
 

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That's exactly what the AT&T guy told me too. I wanted to get it out of the way, but if they say wait, I'll wait.

I decided to wait because there is no point in getting an at&t credit check then they sell out and end up buying from apple store only to do another credit check. I don't want too many hits on my credit.
 

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I'm gonna use my debit card, which based on my own logic, should let me skip a credit check entirely. Of course the fact that I've been with AT&T for a year (with an iPhone), might help me out as well :)
 

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I have never heard of a company running a credit check on an existing customer. As long as you pay your bills in full and on time, I couldn't see a reason why.
 

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I have never heard of a company running a credit check on an existing customer. As long as you pay your bills in full and on time, I couldn't see a reason why.

Last I checked, I can say "I do" to both of those conditions! I have auto-bill pay turned on so I don't have to worry about paying anything late.

I should be fine, then :)
 

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Had a scare today - thought that my newly formatted/organized PC bit the big one - turned out that the PS was bad. Swapped it out and back up and running. Luckily, I backed up everything to an external HDD anyways.
 

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I'm gonna use my debit card, which based on my own logic, should let me skip a credit check entirely. Of course the fact that I've been with AT&T for a year (with an iPhone), might help me out as well :)

Debit cards have nothing to do with it. They want to gauge your ability to pay for the mobile plan you're getting, because they are subsidizing the phone over the life of that contract. They want to make sure you won't go bankrupt and leave them high and dry.

But, since you're an existing customer, it's a moot point anyway. They won't do a credit check.
 

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Debit cards have nothing to do with it. They want to gauge your ability to pay for the mobile plan you're getting, because they are subsidizing the phone over the life of that contract. They want to make sure you won't go bankrupt and leave them high and dry.

But, since you're an existing customer, it's a moot point anyway. They won't do a credit check.

Understood. Also, a bar I was at over the weekend failed to return said debit card to me at the end of the night, so I don't even have it anymore. I'll have to use my credit card on Friday. Does that make a difference? The only reason I could see it making a difference is that I won't use a card that's associated with the account that I used to pay AT&T over the course of the past year. It will be a credit card unrelated to that account (though still from the same bank, Bank of America). Since I'm an existing customer, however, I'm hoping it still won't make any difference and that they'll take my CC without issue.

Besides, I'm planning on going to an Apple Store and not an AT&T store.
 
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manho1dup

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It doesn't matter what credit card or debit card you use to pay for the phone. Just as long as it gets approved then you'll be ok.
 

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At this point my preparations include crossing my fingers and hoping to win a free iPhone. My other option is waiting until September when funds free up for a unit. totally bummed that I have to stick with my paper weight of a phone that has Sprint service attached, but you gotta do what you gotta do, ya know.
 

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At this point my preparations include crossing my fingers and hoping to win a free iPhone. My other option is waiting until September when funds free up for a unit. totally bummed that I have to stick with my paper weight of a phone that has Sprint service attached, but you gotta do what you gotta do, ya know.
How are you intending to win a free iPhone? Through this very blog's contest or some other way?
Also, you can always cancel your service early :)
 

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I'm not doing much to prepare for an iPhone, and I still don't know if I'm going to wait in line or wait for a week or two. Anyway, here's my bulleted list.

  • Setting up Mail.app with Gmail IMAP so I don't have to pay for MobileMe...
  • Deciding if I should wait for a prepaid option to appear.
  • Trying to find a good case, debating having a naked iPhone.
  • Spending too much time reading everything online that is iPhone 3G related.
  • Getting very excited.

EDIT: There's a contest? *reads up on contest* Well, I guess you can add crossing fingers to my list too.
 

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