re: #22 RadicalModerate

All I ask of Apple is for us US users, is to not tie us to an AT&T wireless account for 3G/4G access - there’s just too many carriers out there now, including a *lot* of data-only plans. It’s the only thing that kept me away from the iPhone, and everything else I’ve seen on this makes it really attractive.

There’s no contract required, and it will work on any true 3G network. The delay for the 3G versions appears to be a hardware/manufacturing thing, not a contract thing.

That means it can be used on AT&T, or Sprint, or T-Mobile, but not Verizon. Verizon is technically not 3G under the standard definition, but more like 2G + an improved data layer. I may be wrong in that list, but I know it’s not locked to AT&T — Apple and AT&T have had a bit of a falling out over the past couple years due to their crappy service and failure to meet network scalability milestones.