What do you mean sctivate the phone? If I go and buy one I cant just take it out of the box and use it like the touch? Also if I buy an unlocked iPhone on ebay, if i take the sim out and out a pre paid one in, that will work ?
Directly out of the box it will do nothing (except call 911) until it's activated. You can do that "legally" with AT&T or through the various hacks/unlocks available. I would recommend you stick with AT&T.
For now maybe. Please come back after the new update and tell us if all is still well?
Email works fine, youtube works fine. I know for a fact that the edge network works, but i don't have a data plan so I cant use it. They even have a hack to get your voicemail synced with tmobile (not visual voicemail)
You do NOT need to unlock the phone in order to go prepaid. You can go to an ATT store. Sign up for prepaid and they will give you a code to skip the credit check during the activation process in iTunes.
You should actually read his post next time if you want to respond to it. That being said, ATT's pre-paid plan is absolute junk. They required me to make an automatic minimum monthly deposit. That is crap and destroys the point of pre-paid. Now I'm on their post paid, but I have 30 days to decide if I want to switch to T-Mobile
If you don't mind losing visual voicemail, switch to T-Mobile. I pay $61 a month now for what I used to pay AT&T $100. T-Mobile's unlimited data plan is only $5.99!
