Re: Heads Up AT&T now recognizing The N9 as a smartphone.
 

yea I was amazed that they did this, Im sure it will bring them alot of users

Re: Heads Up AT&T now recognizing The N9 as a smartphone.
 

Hmmm I am on AT&T and have had no issue yet. Still on my grandfathered plan.

Re: Heads Up AT&T now recognizing The N9 as a smartphone.
 

Not entirely true. They do offer service contracts, it's just bundled/pitched a different way. You can in fact get a phone up-front without a high cost with a contract. They have to offer that, or they'd get no new customers since the US market is used to having subsidized phone.

The only real difference is that you can get an unsubsidized plan that's not pre-paid. (Though the pre-paid plans still tend to be a better deal, with more options, if you're not in a shared/family plan.)

FWIW: In a few many major cities now, T-Mobile is updating their towers and providing some 3G service in the 1900 bands used by AT&T in the past. N9 users in those markets could switch to T-Mobile and still keep 3G. A friend of mine just got an unlocked P7000 and it's getting 3G on T-Mobil service, despite it being an AT&T branded/banded phone.

Re: Heads Up AT&T now recognizing The N9 as a smartphone.
 

It's mostly a thing of the past, but that's mostly because more customers have unlimited voice plans or at least very large allotments of talk time. Those customers with limited voice plans do in fact still pay (or have minutes deducted from their allotment) for incoming calls.

You can get a phone with very little up front and simply pay off the remainder of the cost of the phone over a two year period. HOWEVER, if you pay off the phone before that period, the 'contract' is null and void. Phone cost is 100% paid by the consumer now. No discount and no subsidizing whatsoever.

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Yes, but technically, since the N9 has pentaband HSDPA with both the 1900 and AWS 3G bands, it shouldn't matter in markets where T-mobile already has good AWS coveage...

Re: Heads Up AT&T now recognizing The N9 as a smartphone.
 

I already get 3G with T-Mobile on my N9 as well. (shows as 3.5, but whatever).

But as for the topic, I know when I log into my T-Mobile account, the N900 was detected and showed, but the N9 never has. I thought that's what it was talking about, that AT&T actually showed the N9 on their page. I wonder if Jolla phones will show up at all on them...

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Re: Heads Up AT&T now recognizing The N9 as a smartphone.
 

T-Mobile sold the N900 in the U.S. so it makes sense that they can recognize it in their system. The N9 on AT&T being recognized however intrigues me. I do have an N9 and am using AT&T but I have pulled my sim from it last weekend and started re-using the N900 again.

OP, out of curiosity, how much data do you normally use?

Re: Heads Up AT&T now recognizing The N9 as a smartphone.
 

Lol :D this month around 500mbs. I got my N9 in January, Jan-Aug I was using





















around 40 GB's a month more or less:D

Re: Heads Up AT&T now recognizing The N9 as a smartphone.
 

I average about 2-3GB a month on my data plan with AT&T. Still haven't seen anything happen with my grandfathered plan. I'll post here if I do.

My next stop will probably be T-mobile as it will be cheaper than paying for AT&T.