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I lost my old phone on saturday and didn't have time to fully research things. In a possibly stupid, spur of the moment decision, I stayed with AT&T and got an iPhone4 with a 2yr contract. I have 30 days to return/exchange. I also liked the samsung captivate but I only spent a couple hours in the store playing with everything. I went with the iPhone because the restock fee was cheaper... was not thinking about the contract.
Does anyone know if I can return the iPhone and cancel the contract as well, within that 30 day window? or am I married to AT&T for 2 more years? I realize now that AT&T doesn't have plans for UMA (voice over WiFi) and I used to have crappy reception at home and at work (where I have WiFi) with my old flip phone.
I've heard that google voice or skype will let me make calls over WiFi, but these would not use my mobile number. If I set my phone to call forward to the skype/google number, is that setting stored in the network profile (HSS/HLR) so that the network doesn't actually have to attempt over the air delivery to my phone for it to work? My old phone used to get missed calls but never actually ring for them, or it'd ring once then go to voicemail, or otherwise completely fail at reception. So if it has to ping the phone over the air for call forwarding, that might not help my problem.
I was playing with a Backflip and may have accidentally run something called task killer. It seemed to kill the user interface and I couldnt get much to work after that, it was responding slowly. Would an app like this or customizability of android let me cut down on features to save battery life?
any reasons i should get the captivate instead? i don't have any other apple devices or iTunes. I have exchange for email at work, but probably wouldnt connect to it. Yahoo for personal stuff.
Does anyone know if I can return the iPhone and cancel the contract as well, within that 30 day window? or am I married to AT&T for 2 more years? I realize now that AT&T doesn't have plans for UMA (voice over WiFi) and I used to have crappy reception at home and at work (where I have WiFi) with my old flip phone.
I've heard that google voice or skype will let me make calls over WiFi, but these would not use my mobile number. If I set my phone to call forward to the skype/google number, is that setting stored in the network profile (HSS/HLR) so that the network doesn't actually have to attempt over the air delivery to my phone for it to work? My old phone used to get missed calls but never actually ring for them, or it'd ring once then go to voicemail, or otherwise completely fail at reception. So if it has to ping the phone over the air for call forwarding, that might not help my problem.
I was playing with a Backflip and may have accidentally run something called task killer. It seemed to kill the user interface and I couldnt get much to work after that, it was responding slowly. Would an app like this or customizability of android let me cut down on features to save battery life?
any reasons i should get the captivate instead? i don't have any other apple devices or iTunes. I have exchange for email at work, but probably wouldnt connect to it. Yahoo for personal stuff.