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customers tend to be heavier users of data than consumers.” (Plausible?
You decide.)
• Upgrading from an original iPhone. If you have an original iPhone, you
can get the iPhone 3G for the new-customer price ($200 or $300)—and
you don’t even have to pay the $175 early-termination fee. Just bring
your old iPhone to the store and get the new one activated.
You can give the old phone to another family member, sell it, put it up on
eBay, whatever you like.
• Family plans. The iPhone can be part of an AT&T family plan. It works
just like any other phone: For $10 more per month, it shares a pool of
minutes with other phones belonging to the same family. (It still has to
have its own $30-a-month Internet service, though.)
Upgrading an Original iPhone
There’s not much involved in bringing the iPhone 2.0 software to your original
iPhone. One day—probably a long time ago, at this point—iTunes alerts you
that a free upgrade is available. You click Download and Install. When it’s all
over, your new iPhone has access to the App Store, MobileMe, Exchange, and
over 100 new features, and all your old data is put back onto it.
Here’s the whole experience—told in pictures. First, the announcement:
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