iPhone, anyone have one?

[KaiineTN]

Do they force you to buy a plan when you have an iPhone? Or can you use it just for apps/as an iPod without having a plan?

I'd like to get one purely for app testing purposes, and certainly don't want to have to pay each month for that.

If a plan of some kind is required, can the iPod touch run just about any app an iPhone can (that doesn't use the additional features of the phone, obviously)?

[Arlos]

Pretty sure if you have any Mac at all, you can spend the $95 for the iPhone developer kit, which will give you the capability to test apps as if they were on the iPhone themselves in a virtual machine sort of setup, I do believe. So, if app development is really all you want to do, I don't think you HAVE to have an iPhone itself, just the dev kit. Check for yourself to make sure, though, obviously.

-Arlos

[KaiineTN]

Actually, I intend on developing apps in Flash/Flex/ActionScript, as the soon to become public beta Flash CS5 allows you to publish iPhone apps.

I do not have a Mac.

[Durothil Skyreaver]

From my experience iPod Touch can run anything the iPhone can. Like you stated though, if it lacks hardware to do a specific function then it doesn't work. For example, I have a GPS program on my iPod, that runs and checks everything, and the only part that doesn't work is the GPS itself.

[KaiineTN]

The Touch doesn't have a camera right? Only the phone?

[Jay]

[Zanchief]

The touch doesn't have a camera or a mic. Any app that requires those two won't work, everything else will work fine (assuming you can connect to a wireless network of course).

[Tikker]

the new touch 32gb and 64gb have mic I think

http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/features ... ntrol.html

[ClakarEQ]

I have one and support several for my company, you have to buy a plan. There are sources to buy an unlocked device but they can go 700+ and up.

2 year plan, basic voice and unlimited domestic non-comercial data plan should run your roughly 70ish monthly recurring, 32GB iphone would run your around 399ish.

[Zanchief]

the new touch 32gb and 64gb have mic I think

http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/features ... ntrol.html

Yea I bought mine about a year ago and rarely use it. It's a neat toy but the apps are pretty aweful and I don't listen to music. I'm not sure what I was thinking when I bought it.