If I bought an iPhone with a plan and then in a week or 2 canceled the plan, could I still use the iphone as an iPod?

Yes, you can continue to use it as an iPod. There will be no fees unless you wanted to buy apps or songs or games. So yes.

Would there be another fee if I wanted to reactivate it again

You will be signing a two hr. Contract for the phone service for $40 a month. Can you afford that? If not, canceling that is what will land you in credit trouble.

Do you have another ATT compatible phone to use?

If the answer to both of those is yes then you can drop the data plan regardless of what the in store personnel will tell you. It is the phone service part of the contract which subsidizes the cost of the phone.

My best advice would be to call ATT and speak to a SUPERVISOR to explain it to you in detail. The frontline phone people will likely tell you it can’t be done. They are dimwits.

As soon as I return from travel I will be dropping that extra $30 a month myself.

You may be on the hook for the full cost of the iPhone, which is several hundred dollars more than the retail price. The cost is subsidized by your monthly payments to AT&T. I’m not sure, but you should ask.

The phone is subsidized by the two year monthly PHONE charge. The data plan is separate and can be dropped even tho they don’t like to advertise that fact. Hence my questions. As long as he pays the phone charges he’s fine.

@Buttonstc In your first response, you said “you will be signing a 2 hr. Contract…

I didn’t know they gave those out!!! I want in!!

@Fred

Oh that’s too funny. Nice pickup. :D

For the record, it was the iPhone that wrote it. I hate this predictive correction algoritm stuff that’s driving me nuts. It does especially poorly with abbreviations.

This is coupled with the fact that one is prevented from proofing stuff due to the lack of scrollbar on the yellow text field which onlybshows five lines at a time. Grrrr

It’s driving me nuts.

It is excatly like taking the SIM card out of a normal phone. you can do anything that the phone offers but without anything that requires service

Why didn’t you just get an iPod touch if you were going to do this?

You bought the phone. And want to cancel you contract. You’ll pay the $150–175 cancellation fee. I would just return it if you just bought it. That will save you more money.

If you bought some sort of accidental damage protection, just (A) drop it in the toilet, (B) smash it with a hammer, or© both. Just a thought.