I totally disagree that the QWERTY keyboard makes it harder to text -- I find it much easier, mostly because predictive text input is such a pathetic replacement for QWERTY. Now, if I used a lot of txtspeak, I might feel differently, but I prefer to communicate in complete sentences and alphabetic characters whenever possible. You could always go to the Apple Store to try out the keyboard on the notepad app to get a feel for it.
All the iPhone plans include unlimited data within the United States. International roaming is an entirely different matter, so if you travel overseas a fair amount, you'll definitely want to invest in one of the international data plans, which are very expensive. Still, they're less expensive than the multi-thousand dollar bills iPhone users were getting before they realized that turning on data roaming while outside the U.S. is a very bad idea.
Unlimited texting is $20/month, and international texting is $9.99/month for 100 texts, so if you text overseas more than that, the iPhone plan may be much more expensive than what you're paying at the moment. AT&T will be able to walk you through this better than I will, though.
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on 2008-12-24 08:23 pm (UTC)All the iPhone plans include unlimited data within the United States. International roaming is an entirely different matter, so if you travel overseas a fair amount, you'll definitely want to invest in one of the international data plans, which are very expensive. Still, they're less expensive than the multi-thousand dollar bills iPhone users were getting before they realized that turning on data roaming while outside the U.S. is a very bad idea.
Unlimited texting is $20/month, and international texting is $9.99/month for 100 texts, so if you text overseas more than that, the iPhone plan may be much more expensive than what you're paying at the moment. AT&T will be able to walk you through this better than I will, though.