Re: [tlug] Softbank iPhone, what am I missing?

[Kenneth Burling <burlingk@example.com>]

That is the basic plan.

What the website does not tell you is that if you get a smartphone
you WILL have to get the 4900Y (give or take a few hundred depending
on the specials they have going) a month internet plan to go along
with it.

The reason is simple, if you don't get the delux internet plan, then
your iPhone will eat you out of house and home on packet usage fees,
so they just make the customers get it up front.

1MB for a data plan is nothing for a smart phone.  You will likely go
through that on email alone, if you never surf the web.



If you have a budget of 6000/month for two people, then smart phones
are not the way to go.

If you go for a two year contract, they will work the cost of the
phone into your contract, but I would make sure to be careful about
the details of the data plan.   With a regular keitai, 1MB may be
fine, but for a smartphone, its not going to work so well.  The things
are basically tied to the web by their very nature.




2010/12/24 Nikolay Elenkov <nick@example.com>:
> 2010年 12月 24日（金）12:54 am に Simon Cozens さんは書きました：
>
>>
>> But the Softbank web pages don't make very much sense.
>
> >From what I've heard, Softbank rarely makes sense.
>
>> The iPhone standard price plan
>> (http://mb.softbank.jp/mb/iphone/price_plan/standard_price_plan/)
>> seems to suggest I can pick up an iPhone 4 16G with, um, 1 meg of data,
>> for
>> 2900 plus call charges. (I don't have a phone at the moment so I guess I
>> won't
>> get the norikaewari.) That's remarkably reasonable, since I don't stay out
>> of
>> wifi range for long and don't really want much in the way of 3G.
>
> I've always found the 'it's cheap because I don't use it' argument funny.
> Why buy a smart phone if you are not going to use 3G?
>
> No intention to start a flame war or anything, but with all the Android
> phones on the market, why would you want to buy an iPhone?
>
>>
>> Is that right, though, 2900? I seem to remember that last time I used
>> Softbank, I had a zero-yen phone plus the 980 white plan, but my bills
>> were
>> always in the 5000Y or so range. Did I just talk a lot outside the white
>> plan
>> time (ah, engagement) or have I forgotten about some hidden charges?
>
> I don't use SB myself, but if you sign up for the 2 year contract, don't
> go over the packet minimum (1MB?), don't talk outside of the while plan
> time slot, don't let the sales rep sign you for insurance, super-duper
> chako-meru-hodai or whatever crap they are promoting right now, you should
> stay within 2900 yen. But as I said, from what I heard, strange items tend
> to pop up on a Softbank bill, and they are very unwilling to give you a
> clear explanation as to what those charges are for.
>
>
>
>
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