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J. O' Connor wrote:

> Thanks Rod...Very good advise. I will wait until my usage habits reveal themself.

> Knowing myself and having read a little about the iPhone, I may need a $500 plan (:<(.

Yeah, me too.

> The ability to be able to visionally check your security cameras could be very handy.

Yeah, even if the neighbours are available, they wont necessarily
be able to provide the same level of high tech monitoring that you
can do yourself. Only one of my neighbours is anything like that
capable and they are away more often than the others being
retired with their kids well away from the town I live in.

> I guess that would depend on the security system installed, would it not?

Yep.

> Thanks again for your advise,

No problem, thats what these technical groups are for.

> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>> J. O' Connor wrote

>>> Thank you for your quick answer, Rod. This is indeed good news.
>>
>>> Could you advise me or do you have a opinion on what would be better
>>> value then my current pre-paid, if I start using the phone more?
>>
>> Thats very hard to say because it depends on how you will
>> use it more and what your circumstances are networks wise.
>>
>> If you for example move around a lot like the motorhomers do,
>> no one else provides anything like the coverage that NextG does.
>>
>> But if you just stick to the capital citys, there are much better
>> value plans like from 3.
>>
>> If you just use it for stuff like the apple store and cant do that
>> using wifi to your broadband because you cant do it in your house
>> etc,
>> one of the sims specifically for the iphone can be good value.
>>
>> Probably best to wait till you see how you actually use the iphone
>> once you get it.
>>
>> Its got so many interesting apps, many of them free, that its hard
>> to say what might appeal to you.
>>
>> One of the things that caught my attention was the very elegant app
>> that allows the iphone to act as a very fancy X10 remote for example.
>> In that case you may well decide to do stuff like turn the oven on
>> while you are still at work so things start cooking ready for you
>> when you
>> end up at home, or turn something like that off when you get stuck
>> in traffic etc or when your alarm system tells you that somethings
>> going on at your house and you want to check the cameras etc.
>>
>>> At present I have a $100.00 long term (twelve month) pre-paid with
>>> Telstra and usually have a rollover credit of almost half of that
>>> when I renew.
>>
>>
>>
>>> "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:8e1c57Ft8lU1@mid.individual.net...
>>>> J. O' Connor wrote
>>>>
>>>>> At present I have a basic Telstra pre-paid mobile I am quite happy
>>>>> with, but wife ordered a iPhone4 (unlocked) from Apples as a
>>>>> Birthday present.
>>>>
>>>>> My question is this:
>>>>
>>>>> Can I use my present sim in the unlocked phone
>>>>
>>>> Yes.
>>>>
>>>>> or do I have to lock into a special plan?
>>>>
>>>> Nope.
>>>>
>>>>> As I hardly ever use it, I did not want to pay $40.00 or so per
>>>>> month.
>>>>
>>>> No need to do that.
>>>>
>>>>> Your opinion / advise would be greatly appreciated,
>>>>
>>>> It'll work fine. It may not be the best  value if you start using
>>>> it more when you get it.