{"id":50,"date":"2008-08-28T18:22:58","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T18:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kulvir.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/28\/why-didnt-i-get-an-iphone\/"},"modified":"2012-02-15T21:12:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T21:12:16","slug":"why-didnt-i-get-an-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kulvir.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/28\/why-didnt-i-get-an-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Why didn&#8217;t I get an iPhone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My path to get an iPhone was rudily interrupted and after a cloud of smoke, I ended up with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.htc.com\/www\/product.aspx?id=46278\">HTC Touch Diamond<\/a>.  Here is what happened:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Telus&#8217; rentention department called me in April.  Told them I wasn&#8217;t interested and ready to switch to Rogers for the iPhone.  They offered me a free smartphone.  I politely turned it down.<\/li>\n<li>Found out about Telus&#8217; EPP voice plan for $17.30.  Jumped all over it.  Got 200 minutes, evenings starting at 6pm, Telus to Telus, free caller id, free call forwarding.<\/li>\n<li>Noise of the &#8220;iPhone Killa&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samsunginstinct.com\/\">Samsung Instinct<\/a> hit the internet.  Cool, some competition.<\/li>\n<li>HTC Touch Diamond will be available in late August to Telus customers.  Whoa, what&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telusmobility.com\/on\/pcs\/handset_htc_p3100.shtml\">this<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>2nd call from Telus&#8217; rentention centre.  Offering a free HTC Touch Diamond on a 3 yr plan.<br \/>Can I keep my EPP Plan?  <i>&#8211; &#8230; Yes<\/i>.<br \/>Can I switch my Spark 15 for the $15 data plan?  <i>&#8211; &#8230; Yes.<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the end, it was about dollars and sense while comprising a bit on cutting edge technology.  Rogers need for $30 data plans, and leveraging customer loyality with Telus all played a part.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.htc.com\/uploadedimages\/Gallery\/HTC_Touch_Diamond\/Touch_Diamond_People.jpg\" alt=\"HTC Touch Diamond\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My path to get an iPhone was rudily interrupted and after a cloud of smoke, I ended up with the HTC Touch Diamond. Here is what happened: Telus&#8217; rentention department called me in April. Told them I wasn&#8217;t interested and ready to switch to Rogers for the iPhone. They offered me a free smartphone. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kulvir.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/28\/why-didnt-i-get-an-iphone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t I get an iPhone?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kulvir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kulvir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kulvir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kulvir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kulvir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kulvir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"http:\/\/www.kulvir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kulvir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kulvir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kulvir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}