AT&T bringin’ sexy back, offering iPhone 3G at no-commitment price, no activation
Time to clear out some inventory, boys! AT&T, starting March 26th, is going to start offering the 8GB and 16GB iPhone 3Gs at a no-commitment price. These prices are $599 and $699 respectively. The good news is that you do not need to perform an activation/unbrick at the point of purchase, so you can buy the devices for your grandma, your best friend, or for half of China before you head back home. There’s a limit of “one per line” which makes us think you’ll need an active AT&T line to purchase an iPhone (AT&T stores typically don’t sell you no-contract phones unless you provide them with an active line of yours), but the presentation also says that they basically have no way of tracking this. Still, at $599 and $699, are these going to move? Time will tell. Hit the jump for some more shots of the presentation we got a hold of!
that is the 16 GB iPhone 3G WITH Contract. The White one w/out is $699
OK, so $599.99 for and 8GB iPhone, I don’t get it. I can buy one for 199.00 on contract, pay the 175.00 early termination fee and if you cancel within 3 days they won’t keep the $35.00 activation fee so $199.00 + $175.00 is $374.00. Why would anyone pay $599.00?
I have 8 months left on exicting contract. Why won’t they let me buy lower priced Iphone if I add a data plan to remainder of term and add 2 more years on my contract? It sounds stupid to me that that isn’t a good deal for ATT.
They get a two year contract plus existing 8 months.
They get a data plan added to my 8 months they didn’t have before.
But they apparently say NO to that.
It kinda seems like this phone is just a whole lot of drama and not really worth it at all.
The $300 dollar price you are looking at is most probably a phone purchase that requires a contract (most likely a 2 year contract) which is why it is much cheaper. You are getting a discount for signing a contract over a specific amount of time.
I thought you couldn’t cancel your plan/account w/o first returning the phone. Isn’t that how they were regulating this?
Does anyone know if this is true?
I HAVE AN I PHONE GENERATION 1 – AND I USE IT ON A PREPAID BASIS, WHICH LETS ME TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ALL THE FUNCTIONS WITHOUT PAYING MONTHLY CONTRACT CHARGES. THIS WORKS FOR ME VERY WELL, AS I DONT TALK ON THE PHONE TOO MUCH. QUUSTION–DOES THE IPHONE 3G ALLOW YOU TO USE THE PAY AS YO GO DEAL? THIS IS BETTER KNOWN AS AT&T GO PHONE
I mainly use my iPhone for playing games, it’s the best gaming machine ever imo.
Err, get your facts straight before you post with such certainty. You can buy and iPhone with a new line of contract, after 30 days cancel the line and pay the Early Termination Fee of $200, at this point the phone is yours, proceed to unlock it with the many tools available online, put a T-mobile simcard on it and it will work perfectly.
Are you sure , u dont have to return the device? I already have one legit iphone with contract but want to buy another as a gift for someone and send it out of country! So i need to be sure there rent any other charges or if they wont ask me to return the phone after 30 days….???? Can anyone reply soon please
That’s cool, but it’s still way to expensive.