Apple prepping a 32GB iPhone update, bringing back at-home activation?
By Nilay Patel 
posted September 20th 2008 6:10PM
posted September 20th 2008 6:10PM
We're not particularly inclined to believe them, but the whispers that Apple is about to bump the top-end iPhone capacity to 32GB are getting harder to ignore -- especially since 8GB inventory is drying up, leading to speculation that's it's going to be dropped as soon as next week. We think the timing's a little odd on the heels of the Let's Rock iPod refresh, but considering the rampant speculation that Apple was forced to bump the nano to 16GB and drop the "limited edition" 4GB model entirely at the last minute in response to the new Zune lineup we suppose it makes competitive sense. AppleInsider also says customers will once again get the option to activate in-home, but we haven't heard anything about that -- we'll see what happens in the next few days.[Thanks, Harry]
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I am very happy with my iPhone 3G experience. It is by far the most superior smart phone available and bumping it up to 32 GB will just make it that much better.
I am already maxing out my 16 GB with movies, photos, mp3s and apps, so that added space would be great.
Question is, will I believe to return my 16 GB in order to swap it for the 32 GB and perhaps pay the difference in price?
In my opinion, Nah. I already have a white 16GB iPhone(purchased on July 11th), and it works for me in holding my mobile media. My music, videos, pictures, etc. stay on my phone for about a week or two until they are changed out with newer media. Since I already have the 16GB, I will not be paying more for the same phone just because it's 32GB.
Some people like to download/upload everything under the sun to their phone, and then they complain when they don't have enough space or their phone becomes unstable because it's so bloated with crap.
Yet you are all still tied to AT&T and their wonderful network....
A 64GB Touch would fill in the the serious capacity gap we have at the moment between the 32GB Touch and the 120GB classic. 64GB would take care of a lot of people who currently own a 30 or 40GB iPod and are ready to upgrade.
It's not going to be cheap though :)
for 8gb more i spent a significant amount paying for it..
imagine if users are to pay for 16gb for apple products..
anyway, 16gb is enough for me so far :)
What good is home activation if there's no way to unlock the 3g iphone?
Ive been sticking with my 16GB First Gen iPhone till there was a 32B iPhone available. When they release 32GB 3G, I will be sold.
h0mi - The only benefit that would come of home activation would be that instead of having to sit and wait in an AT&T store for it to be activated, you can do it for yourself at home. With this way, you just don't have to sit there in the AT&T store for activition.
That's all this does. It has nothing to do with it being locked or unlocked. Any way you look at it(right now anyways), the activation still has to go through AT&T for your iPhone 3G to work.
This would be good news for me because soon I'm gonna get mine from http://4freeiphone.com/ and recently they have only been sending checks to people instead of the actual iphone since they can't activate it for you
IT'S TRUE! -at least the 32GB part. I went to buy an 8 GB yesterday, they discontinued those, now you can only get the 16GB and they are getting in 32GB's soon
Here in the UK, the 8gig is still available and O2 (The network that retains exclusivity on the iPhone) have no information available. They may have tomorrow, but thats how it stands today.
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Having to activate at the store is a bit annoying I will agree, so hopefully they will bring back in-home-activation. But what bothers me more is that in this day and age of modern computing the most memory they can fit on an iphone is 16GB. I have over 250GB worth of music, podcasts and movies. Not that I could ever listen to 250GB of music all at once, but it sure would be nice to have the entire collection available at all times.
Nevermind my last post! I just found what I needed at this cool website called terabyteiphone (dot com)
why didnt i think of this? :)
I'm curious as to why people prefer the at-home activation process??? I understand being scarred by a bad rep, believe me...but I am a rep at AT&T and it really is just as simple to have it done in the store. The only difference between having to choose a rate plan on iTunes and having to choose your rate plan in the store, is that you have someone to answer any questions that you might have. And if someone tells you to look at a website, tell them that you would rather ask their manager, LoL. If you're really that weary, do your research on the website BEFORE you go into the store (just as you would before signing up for it on iTunes, I would hope). You know that there will be a $30 data plan added to the basic nationwide plans (included on iPhone specific plans), and whichever text package you choose ($.20 - Pay/Use, $5 - 200, $15-1500, $20-unlimited, $30 unlimited family). They also have info about our business plans, international services, early nights and weekends, roadside assistance, etc. on there, which are all things that cannot be added through iTunes. If you walk in and tell a rep that you want an iPhone and tell them exactly how you want it set up, I promise that you won't hear much argument, LoL. Of course, we do have access to all the same materials and a great wealth more so I would highly encourage taking advantage of all the information that your rep can offer. The other benefit to the in-store activation, is that the phone is active before you even leave the store. Hence, it's ready to play with as soon as you leave, and we can also make sure everything is working properly with your device. Anyways, the point is that it really is a painless process and I guess that I don't really understand the benefit to the at-home activation...
Ideally Sarah, what a big handful of people want, including me, is the ability to buy an iPhone, non-subsidized, no questions asked, not-activate it in-store, not be tied to AT&T, not sign up for a contract, go home with our new iPhone, use an online hack to Jailbreak it, and use it as an advanced iPod with camera and GPS.
In some cases we will use a hack to activate the Phone part, and use it with another less expensive/more reliable carrier, of OUR choice. That is why. Following the rules or not, that's why. In my case, I would like the GPS, the Camera feature, the louder speaker, and vibration for my scheduled alarms, all in my hacked iPhone, that I would not be using as a phone, just an advanced iPod Touch. None of those features will be available in an iPod while the iPhone 3G is selling well. They could do it. But they won't. They want to artificially separate the iPhone from the iPod Touch in more ways than just the Phone feature. I disagree with this, as do many, so we would like to take matters into our own hands.
That is exactly why Apple is forcing the in-store activation. They want you in a contract. And that is fair, if they subsidize it. I don't want their subsidy. I don't want their contract. I would like an iPod with all the features of an iPhone, except the phone with the option of activating later, if I choose, from home.