Waffling on the iPhone

["Doug-71" <user=43@nabble.blu.org>]

 Hello: 

I promised the iPhone to the misses and myself.  Yet she is the 
practical sort.  We figure the family plan ($70/month) + data plan 
($30/month) + phones ($210 * 2) + activation ($40 *2) + taxes 
($10/month) + accessories ($60) puts the cost of ownership at $3200 
for two years.  Ouch.  She has a monthly plan at $40/month while I 
have one at $10/month (pay as you go), so a total cost of $1150.  That 
is a $2k premium for the iPhone. 

I have a skype account, and am thinking of using fring to load that 
onto a Wi-Fi phone.  That would work at work, at home, and at a 
starbucks.  Drop my SIM chip from one phone to another.  If I buy a 
decent Wi-Fi Phone, that is a one time cost which I use when I have 
Wi-Fi, otherwise I use the T-mobile phone. 

Do people here have multi-phone lives?  Anyone use the fring/skype or 
fring/vontage combination?  Is anyone so in love with the iPhone they 
think feeding AT&T this amount of money makes sense? 

Doug 

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