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AT&T Tilt now available on Premier Website

Just logged in to my company's AT&T Premier site - the Tilt is available now for $399 (!). I was hoping for $299 before rebates......

warwickwebb said:
Just logged in to my company's AT&T Premier site - the Tilt is available now for $399 (!). I was hoping for $299 before rebates......
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P.S. Looks like I can upgrade to the Tilt (no new contract) for $399 as well - I chose 'Upgrade Device Only', which allowed me to keep my current plan unchanged (including my trusty Medianet service).

yep, i was just getting ready to post this..
Included Accessories
1350 mAh Lithium Ion Polymer Battery
AC Wall Charger
Mini USB Sync Cable
Stylus
Extra Sylus

My wallet is at work and AT&T has the Tilt ready for me

Yeah I was hoping for a better price too. If you do the upgrade device only, I know it leaves your plan intact. Does it extend your contract 2 years though?

Where the heck is PDA Personal Max? Does anyone have it in their list? I HAVE a cell card, I don't need tethering, dagnabit!
And no data plan discount? We're better off getting it from the retail site!

YodaJM said:
Yeah I was hoping for a better price too. If you do the upgrade device only, I know it leaves your plan intact. Does it extend your contract 2 years though?
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I'm wondering the same thing - I got to the very end of the process and had to click to agree to a Service Agreement that specified 2yrs. I asked this same question in another thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=334349&page=3
Richard

I had an option to upgrade the phone only for 399 or upgrade the device and plan as well..so i tried to see if price is goona changed it did,instant 100$ off and 25 dollar instant credit..275 plus tax and 18 dollar upgrade fee because I bought the 8525 like 3 months ago. because it seemed like I bought new plan and data plan,I can get the 100 MIR as well,they won't have esxuce not to give,,I saved 225$..so I really don't understand the big deal if they exttend the contract you know..if a better phone comes I can do the same process over and over again,with out having to wait 2 years,,so the money I will save over time is justified if I have to abondan my contract and pay 175$ one day.. what do you guys think?

hayaticik said:
II really don't understand the big deal if they exttend the contract you know
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FWIW, in the other thread I referenced above, at least one person has confirmed contract extension showing on his account after the $399 deal
As far as the "big deal" on contract, my company pays for my phone and the monthly bill is a LOT more than I'd carry personally. I don't want to be at my company's mercy if they decide they don't need me to have a phone (or don't need me at all) with 23 mos left on a contract. Sure, they *SHOULD* cover the ETF but why risk it....
Richard

in your case yeah its a big deal but for me when I just saved over 200 with the extention,I don't mind the possibility to be punished 175 only. 399+tax VS 274.99+tax is a difference that I can't let go,couldn't live with myself haha.I can extent again in 6 months if they come up with a better phone..so I am in control and getting the discounts ..you know...but for you ,no contract is clean and necessary..

Find a good deal Tilt/Kaiser

I need to buy myself a GPS unit. I figure with the money Im going to spend on a GPS unit, why not put it towards a Tilt/Kaiser since GPS is already built in. Does anyone know where I can find a great deal on one?

I'm selling a Brand New Unlocked Never been Used for $600 shipped anywhere in US.
Let me know, If interested.

Check around, I snapped one up direct from ATT for $149.99 on a Thanksgiving special. They are normally $399 I think, and the GPS is Great!

Don't forget to factor in some $$$ for GPS software, unless you plan on just using Google Maps/Live search. TomTom 6, Garmin XT and iGuidence are popular.

RemE said:
Check around, I snapped one up direct from ATT for $149.99 on a Thanksgiving special. They are normally $399 I think, and the GPS is Great!
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Did you have to sign up for new service or upgrade your contract?

wordizbond007 said:
Did you have to sign up for new service or upgrade your contract?
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yes you do..

i got my tilt from letstalk.com for $200 with $25 rebate. I had to do 2 yrs 39.99 WITHOUT data plan as well. I didn't want any data services.
Had I waited, I found a better deal a day later at newegg.com for $50 less. Basically $150 w/$39.99 and up 2 yrs. contract NO DATA plan required! good luck

Contracts are the devil!

guess this is an old thread, but I just picked up a Tilt (with new service) for $99 after discounts and a rebate on amazon.com... there are some requirements for the rebate (6 months) but its a great price if youre like me and just entering the smartphone world... the 30-day trial period also applies...

Its now down to $50 after rebates...

ATTN: People returning Kaisers in the 30 day period

I wanted to do this too, as I felt it wasn't worth the price I paid ($400)
However, AT&T at least allows you to return the phone under the 30 days and replace it with the refurbished model - at only $150.00.
I really liked the phone, it's just with the graphics problem it wasn't worth the heavy price...but the new availability of refurbs let me keep this phone at a slick price.
Just thought I'd let you all know for a potential exchange! My refurb works great, and still a 1 year warranty!

shhh...telling our secret . Refurb is definatly the way to go. I wasnt going to get one becasue of the problems then i found i could get one for about 150. I couldnt skimp on that price. It was sparkling brand new looking. Like it looked brand new. Please continue to take them back so i can get my wife one also...

myv6mustang said:
shhh...telling our secret . Refurb is definatly the way to go. I wasnt going to get one becasue of the problems then i found i could get one for about 150. I couldnt skimp on that price. It was sparkling brand new looking. Like it looked brand new. Please continue to take them back so i can get my wife one also...
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I just hope your wife doesn't fet the one I turned in within the 30 day period. (I traded for another new one in early December - No refurbs available at that time) Anyway it got to the point that people couldn't hear me unless I soft reset the phone right before I called.
I guess a reflash would probably fix that, but I just switched it out for a new one. The cover over the media card slot was quite worn because I wasn't able to get craptive sync working right at the beginning and to get stuff on the media card I was having to take the card out repeatedly and putting it into a USB adapter.
-Jay

Wow, just stumbled on this....
I just ordered 2 refurb 8925s earlier today (to replace the 8125s my wife and I have used for the past 2 years). I decided to start reading the kaiser forum this afternoon in anticipation...
Total was under $400 for both (shipping included)...mine actually qualified for an additional $50 off ($149 for mine; $199 for hers) and a waived activation fee.
We will see if it was a good deal.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16875998228
Tilt's are always $175 brand new here with a contract.

agreenagent said:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16875998228
Tilt's are always $175 brand new here with a contract.
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OK, unless you already have a contract with AT&T or are doing a family plan....

beware of those internet deals. they require you to keep the PDA data plan for 6 months in order to keep that price. If you dont, you could get billed for the Tilt's full price.

cproaudio said:
beware of those internet deals. they require you to keep the PDA data plan for 6 months in order to keep that price. If you dont, you could get billed for the Tilt's full price.
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They don't bill you for it, they deny you the rebate... usually places like that have 2 rebates setup. one that you file immediately, and they mail the rebate after you've had active service for 30 days, and the second is not issued until you have had service for like 6 months.
-Jay

Jay2TheRescue said:
They don't bill you for it, they deny you the rebate... usually places like that have 2 rebates setup. one that you file immediately, and they mail the rebate after you've had active service for 30 days, and the second is not issued until you have had service for like 6 months.
-Jay
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some places......like amazon, they give a "conditional discount", where u need to keep service for the next 6 months

I am Paying 15 dolars for ATT tilt internet, starting today :)

for the last 12 months I have been paying 30$ for my ATT Tilt internet, because on the internet I couldn't add the cheap 15 version of medianet. and on the phone they said because I have a pda I have to have a PDA plan which is 30$ min.. well today I tried a different method. called and asked if I could get the 15$ internet and she said if I updated my phone on my account. meaning if I give them a different IMei number other than a PDA to add it to my account than they can add the 15$ plan..so I had an extra Sony ericson flipphone. I just told her I wanna use my Sony phone and add it to my account. I did it she put me on 15$ plan. she said it wouldn't work on the tilt...well guess what? it is the same internet on my Tilt..I am in los angeles..I have HSDPA all the time..speed is the same..it is plain old PDA plan..it is I think to supsidy the costs of the PDA phones, they are doing it to make more profit..on my account it is showing now i am using a regular phone...and if something happens to my Tilt, she said i could update my account to tilt so I can return for warraty changes..I can't believe I have been paying double for my internet for no reason...hope it helps some of the people who didn't now about this..Good luck..
Hayati

hayaticik said:
for the last 12 months I have been paying 30$ for my ATT Tilt internet, because on the internet I couldn't add the cheap 15 version of medianet. and on the phone they said because I have a pda I have to have a PDA plan which is 30$ min.. well today I tried a different method. called and asked if I could get the 15$ internet and she said if I updated my phone on my account. meaning if I give them a different IMei number to add it to my account than they can add the 15$ plan..so I had an extra Sony ericson flipphone. I just told her I wanna use my Sony phone and add it to my account. I did it she put me on 15$ plan. she said it wouldn't work on the tilt...well guess what? it is the same internet on my Tilt..I am in los angeles..I have HSDPA all the time..speed is the same..it is plain old PDA plan..it is I think to supsidy the costs of the PDA phones, they are doing it to make more profit..on my account it is showing now i am using a regular phone...and if something happens to my Tilt, she said i could update my account to tilt so I can return for warraty changes..I can't believe I have been paying double for my internet for no reason...hope it helps some of the people who didn't now about this..Good luck..
Hayati
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nice to know man ... well i have to keep the 30 dollar plan for six months (2 more months) and i already have another line on my account so i guess i'll cancel the plan on my tilt and get it on the other line and than use that sim in my tilt to get the access ...

are you talking about unlimited data plan?

antihrist said:
are you talking about unlimited data plan?
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yes.i am talking about internet.

I have always known this, i used the media net on my old palm treo. I'm paying $30 a month now since i got my tilt.
EDIT: this below doesn't seem to work for everyone...
However, for you brave souls. There is a way around it, you can add the $15 plan on their website. (of course if you do this, log in and cancel your current PDA plan)
Do not log in, stay logged out
Go to Shop/Features/View All
Click Media Net Unlimited, "current customers purchase here"
And then follow the steps.
Not many people know about that, you can't add it if your logged in, because it recognizes what phone you have.
(it may take up to 24 hours to update your account this way,)

hayaticik said:
yes.i am talking about internet.
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well... i understand that you are talking about internet, but i don't understand if this is unlimited data or you have some limitations (like amount of data, port restrictions,...).
not that this is important to me since i don't live near US or at&t, but i was just wondering because here in croatia we pay:
- 391kn (85$) unlimited data (flat)
- 291kn (63$) 3GB
- 191kn (41$) 1GB
- 91kn (20$) 512MB
so if you pay 15$ for unlimited data i just don't know what to say. not to mention average monthly pay here in croatia being way below 1000$.

It's unlimited (up to 5gb). I have been using it for months now and have had zero problems. People claim that if you exceed 5gb of data usage, AT&T will get suspicious.
Jeff

antihrist said:
well... i understand that you are talking about internet, but i don't understand if this is unlimited data or you have some limitations (like amount of data, port restrictions,...).
not that this is important to me since i don't live near US or at&t, but i was just wondering because here in croatia we pay:
- 391kn (85$) unlimited data (flat)
- 291kn (63$) 3GB
- 191kn (41$) 1GB
- 91kn (20$) 512MB
so if you pay 15$ for unlimited data i just don't know what to say. not to mention average monthly pay here in croatia being way below 1000$.
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i can't believe you guys pay that much over there. it is for unlimited..about ATT being suspicious if we pass 5gb is not so much what happens. i use so much every month. they don't care about it. there are enough people paying double anyways. if it is unlimited it doesn't matter wich phone u use..plus they wil blame us with what? nothing. so yes i wil pay 15 dollars a month for unlimited internet. ohh i didn't know about buying it without logging in..it is good to know.

i just called att and updated my plann, they said it would take in effect immediately but i will wait till tomorrow morning to see for sure.
thanks a lot for the tip guys saved a bunch of money on my bill
i use to have $30 unlimited PDA for 2 phone so that means $60 total, now its $15 unlimited internet each, for 2 phone so thats $30 total

lol
haha thats great! i dont have a unlimited data plan because of the $30 price. its ridiculous
now i might consider doing this trick to get that $15 plan.
thanks
just hopefully no att representatives are viewing this forum.

they also have a "media max 200" plan which gives you the $15 unlimited data plan plus 200 text messeges for and additional $5. So your total a month would be $20. Have done that after reading a thread back in December time frame. Currently in Peru on Vacation but when i get back in Sept. I will reactivate the media max 200.
also i have tried the internet sharing and no suspicion with ATT. So i love it.

Sheesh, that's quite a vacation.
Fwiw, for years i've used media max unlimited (since I had a wizard) and i've never had a problem.

hayaticik said:
for the last 12 months I have been paying 30$ for my ATT Tilt internet, because on the internet I couldn't add the cheap 15 version of medianet.
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I think AT&T insists on the $30 plan because it's their way of offsetting the cost of the phone. Most customers will obtain the Kaiser from the operator rather than an OEM HTC model. And because AT&T discounts the phone heavily, they have to build in a way to get the phone to a price point that most customers will want to pay. They write it into a contract so that they can recover the expense of the discount they offered you when you bought the phone.
In my case, I had the MEdia Max bundle for my RAZR, so when I got my TyTNII it carried over. But at least one workaround would be to borrow a friend's phone, put your SIM in that phone, go online to change your plan and then put the SIM back into your phone. Many times the phone will identify itself to the network so you don't even have to manually change it.

Welcome to about a year ago everyone.

hayaticik said:
i can't believe you guys pay that much over there. it is for unlimited..about ATT being suspicious if we pass 5gb is not so much what happens. i use so much every month. they don't care about it. there are enough people paying double anyways. if it is unlimited it doesn't matter wich phone u use..plus they wil blame us with what? nothing. so yes i wil pay 15 dollars a month for unlimited internet. ohh i didn't know about buying it without logging in..it is good to know.
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neither i can believe. we have 3 mobile operators here and prices are still outrageous. i guess there is some problem with my country in general, not only operators.
looks like i'm going to keep paying so much for mobile internet for some time...unless i decide to move in US.

ThatGuy16 said:
I have always known this, i used the media net on my old palm treo. I'm paying $30 a month now since i got my tilt.
However, for you brave souls. There is a way around it, you can add the $15 plan on their website. (of course if you do this, log in and cancel your current PDA plan)
Do not log in, stay logged out
Go to Shop/Features/View All
Click Media Net Unlimited, "current customers purchase here"
And then follow the steps.
Not many people know about that, you can't add it if your logged in, because it recognizes what phone you have.
(it may take up to 24 hours to update your account this way,)
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I got up to the part where it asked me for my info, i'm going to try this tonight and update throughout the week, i doubt that this would hold though, but it's worth a shot. It did however prompt me for the $15 data plan instead of the $30 so the future is bright...so far.

people have been doing it for awhile now. Nothing new.

BillTheCat said:
I think AT&T insists on the $30 plan because it's their way of offsetting the cost of the phone. Most customers will obtain the Kaiser from the operator rather than an OEM HTC model. And because AT&T discounts the phone heavily, they have to build in a way to get the phone to a price point that most customers will want to pay. They write it into a contract so that they can recover the expense of the discount they offered you when you bought the phone.
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Nah, it's simply because PDAs use data connections much much more than non-PDA phones. Just wait until the day after tomorrow when the iPhone 3G starts hitting the streets, I expect quite a bit more of att's 3G bandwidth will be in use.

This has been known for months and discussion of this deal is in many threads.

yup, I remember when I first did this on my 8125/wizard... Only thing you might wanna watch for is the IMEI sweeps that I'm sure they don't do intentionally... I've had mine set up for my old 551, but mysteriously it will change in the OLAM to my 8525... and now with my Tilt as well... They've never changed my bill, or sent me a notice, but they know what everyones doing...

I've converted. I love it. The iPhone is the best thing ever...

...for ppc phone users
I remember when i first got a Wizard a few years ago and o2 wanted to charge me something ridiculous like £££££££s/mb on data, then it went to £££££/mb (my brain gets fuzzy remebering that far back). I left and went to orange who charged me £8/30mb + £1/extra 1mb, then a week ago I went into the shop to look at a Diamond, they didn't have one, but :drumroll:
They now do a £7.50/500mb bundle!
Still no hope of me buying an iPhone though.

don't you people think we discuss too much 'iphone' here!
windows mobile is a really good think from microsoft.
but vista just plain sucks! and i found this out after spending a day with openSUSE 11.0.
watch it on youtube!

mariner_heart said:
don't you people think we discuss too much 'iphone' here!
windows mobile is a really good think from microsoft.
but vista just plain sucks! and i found this out after spending a day with openSUSE 11.0.
watch it on youtube!
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The meaning of my post was not about the iPhone itself (& how good/bad it may be).
But, that due to the marketing of the 1st generation apple phone, operators have started selling data rates at usable prices, which benefits us windows mobile users who have suffered high prices for years and across probably 100 different phones before we get good deals.
My local o2 shop has only one phone advertised in the window (guess), it's on tv, in the cinema, everywhere, and it was advertised before release. Yet the first time I've seen a WM phone advert in 'regular' press was this week (& for a Diamond, how many were made before that? & how many years ago?).
We've had to wait for a competitor before we get good deals, or any promotion to encourage pricing

Nothing happened in the us =/ PDA Personal (Unlimited data) is still like $30 T.T

Kraize92 said:
Nothing happened in the us =/ PDA Personal (Unlimited data) is still like $30 T.T
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medianet unlimited is $15/month if you know how to talk to customer service.

mariner_heart said:
don't you people think we discuss too much 'iphone' here!
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Mayb the word iphone should be filterd or banned lol

defcomg said:
Mayb the word iphone should be filterd or banned lol
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eyefoan ???

bbobeckyj said:
eyefoan ???
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ya haha Gues its imp0sible

cbass said:
medianet unlimited is $15/month if you know how to talk to customer service.
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Doesn't AT&T audit acounts now to make sure that you don't use a PDA on a non-PDA unlimited plan?
I'm under a premier business account with AT&T, and I still pay $60/month for unlimited data and messaging. I have two 8525's on my account with unlimited everything, and my bill is $130/month (only thanks to a 28% service discount due to my account's affiliation).
AT&T is pricey...

dzelaya18 said:
Doesn't AT&T audit acounts now to make sure that you don't use a PDA on a non-PDA unlimited plan?
I'm under a premier business account with AT&T, and I still pay $60/month for unlimited data and messaging. I have two 8525's on my account with unlimited everything, and my bill is $130/month (only thanks to a 28% service discount due to my account's affiliation).
AT&T is pricey...
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I had the $19.99 plan up until two weeks ago. Through an 8125 and almost a year of a Tilt on a 2 year contract. I got both "unaddable" data plans from calling Customer Care, two methods, both worked beautifully.
Way one is to call AT&T CC, using your sim in another phone. Tell them you are calling using your new handset, and the Tilt is just going to be a PDA for you. They will guide you through getting the IMEI number off your new handset. Ask them to update the data plan to the better price, as you are still going to browse the web on the simpler device. They'll update the phone for you, and then drop the price to 15/mo.
I got my 19.99 plan by calling and haggling until I got the price I wanted. You can only do that if you are within the first 30 days of a new contract. Threaten to leave and go to VZW because of a solicited package through the local retailer and your employer, which you would be willing to pass up if AT&T would match it.