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<p>…or you could register your new number in donotcall.gov. I think it filters almost everyone except for your church, kids’ school and your school alumni.</p>
<p>Sadly, the DNC list lets a lot of things slip through including NFP groups calling to solicit donations and political surveys. It is one of the major reasons we are cutting our landline. Of course it won’t be long until they get a hold of our cel numbers.</p>
<p>I think that the DNC list is used by nefarious telemarketers for confirmed phone number prospects.</p>
<p>All the dictation apps for a phone or tablet rely on sending the material to a server. The desktop app by Dragon works on your computer. Big difference in performance.</p>
<p>The maps app is young. It depends on user information building a database. The same is true of google maps but it’s older so it’s further along.</p>
<p>Google wanted its own youtube app so they can show ads. A big chunk of their profit comes from iOS. </p>
<p>I noticed a carrier pricing effect on behavior. One of my kids has always used a texting phone with a keyboard and an ipod for music. Both need replacing. It used to be that you paid for the phone and then $30 a month for data. Now if you have a “shared data plan” you pay $10 for the change from phone to smartphone and not more unless you need more data and that’s another $10. That means it’s more economically sensible to buy the smartphone than before. So, for example, the new touch is $300 and the old is $200 but an iPhone 4S is $99 and the 4 is free. The latter 2 are for 16 gb phones so I assume the 32gb 4S is $200 and the 32gb 4 is $99, if those are available. It becomes significantly less expensive to buy an iphone than before, all because the cost of the plan has change from $30/mo to $10/mo.</p>
<p>I notice Verizon hasn’t lowered their prices for previous iPhone versions. Maybe they are waiting until tomorrow?</p>
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That sounds like a good plan (for you, not H) but the SIM card is one of the things that changed on the iPhone 5 (along with the connector) so you won’t be able to put a SIM card from your current phone into it. The iPhone 5 uses a ‘nano-SIM’ whereas the previous iPhones used a ‘micro-SIM’ and they’re not compatible.</p>
<p>I updated my iphone 4s to the new IOS today and so far I LOVE it. I thought I would be able to get the iphone 5, but my contract date is not until the summer, so it turns out that I can do all I really wanted to do with my current phone using the new IOS. </p>
<p>Did a quick test of the turn-by-turn spoken directions on the new map ap, and it worked like a champ. Also, it’s cool that you can do panoramic photos. It also seems faster online…</p>
<p>I am pleased.</p>
<p>Lergnom, if your kid wants a dedicated mp3 player, get something like a Sansa Clip+ or other good quality, small sized player. I switched from my old third generation iPod to a Clip+ about two years ago and love it. They come with 4GB built in, but have a microSD slot which gives a ton of room to expand. Battery life is way better than any iPod I’ve owned. Generally it lasts a few days with a couple hours of use each day. Even when I’m going to start carrying a smartphone I’ll probably stick with a separate mp3 player since then I don’t have to worry about it draining my phone’s battery.</p>
<p>Unless it has changed since the Beta, the new OS is not available for the original iPad and the iPhone before the 3GS. </p>
<p>Also, I am not sure about the need to play musical chairs with the SIM card. The activation process should take care of the transfer of the number to the new SIM card. For what it is worth, I do see that new SIM size as an ominous sight of bad things to come. Despite ATT recent change of mind and heart about unlocking phones for multi SIM use abroad, this has all the making of introducing a totally customer captive concept. </p>
<p>Looks like a new version of the Echternach procession with 3 steps forward and 2 steps backwards.</p>
<p>[Carriers</a> reportedly testing Nano SIM cards in partnership with Apple](<a href=“http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/07/19/carriers-testing-nano-sim/]Carriers”>Carriers reportedly testing Nano SIM cards in partnership with Apple)</p>
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I read Olfort’s message as an attempt by her to usurp her H’s iPhone by swapping the SIM cards (and hence phones with her ending up with the new one and H the old one) but I could have misread it.</p>
<p>I’m waiting for the iPhone with the pico SIM card.</p>
<p>I’d like an iPhone that prints money and makes me coffee in the morning too.</p>
<p>Racin, I should have said my kid uses the iPod as a smartphone on the school wifi. Since she’s nearly always on campus, it functions as well as an iPhone. The combo of dumber phone and touch was cheaper and filled her needs. The cost equation has changed.</p>
<p>GGD - I’ve always been the recipient of the new phone in our house. DH gets the old one. It’s not as draconian as it sounds as he carries techie stuff light years ahead because of his job. He could care less about his personal phone. Sometimes we’ve been able to swap SIM cards, sometimes we have to take them into AT&T to do the switch. Just tell them which phone should have which number. They don’t care in the least which person is carrying the new phone. They only care that a phone was sold and contract extended.</p>
<p>I called ATT this afternoon. They told me to call them tomorrow after I have received the phone. They will reprogram the sim card to my number with the imei (sp??) of the phone.</p>
<p>I could call AT&T tomorrow but what are the chances of getting someone there? I imagine that their phone lines will be swamped along with their stores.</p>
<p>Why is my phone not supposed to arrive until Oct 5? Maybe because I got the white?</p>
<p>You had to order between 3:00 AM and 4:00 AM last Friday to get delivery for tomorrow. I believe that you ordered around 7:00 AM so you would be in the second wave.</p>
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<p>I understand but that is mostly futile for a number of reasons, namely that the SIM is different and that the activation process takes care of it. As others have said, the servicers take care of the changes by correctly updating the registration of the various phones. It really is a very simple process and not worth one agonizing over. It WILL all happen in the next few days, and the transition between the old and the new is just a matter of a bit of patience. </p>
<p>Nobody will get it done much earlier or much later. I, for one, will not switch the phone until the middle or the end of the next week. My current phone works and I will either walk to an ATT or Apple store and let them do it for me, or spend a few minutes on the phone … well after the masses of eager upgraders have subsided. </p>
<p>Unless ATT offers a free Starbucks latte for the first 1,000,000 upgraders, I see no need to worry about either the time of delivery or about getting the conversion done. I am happy to know the phone is on its way from Louisville and will smile at the stories of people lining up at stores around the country.</p>
<p>Is the activation process simpler if it is a new number?</p>