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If you can’t bear to commit yourself to a multi-year wireless contract just to get subsidized pricing on your iPhone 3G purchase, you might want to consider buying an unlocked iPhone 3G. And you don’t even have to go to France to do so. A new UK retailer has started offering unlocked 8GB and 16GB iPhone 3G handsets priced at £550 and £600, respectively.
With O2 and AT&T looking to clear out backed-up iPhone 3G stock in anticipation of new iPhone hardware launching this Summer, it was only a matter of time before a retailer started selling unlocked iPhone 3GS. Apple has apparently loosened its draconian grip on the iPhone 3G and looks to be allowing more lenient iPhone 3G sales terms.
Available at Play.com, the unlocked 8GB and 16GB iPhone 3GS will still cost a pretty penny. Compared to free-on-contract offers from some wireless carriers, the 8GB iPhone 3G’s £550 ($800) and the 16GB iPhone 3G’s £600 ($875) price tags are a hefty bunch. Still, for the contract-wary out there will to drop a few extra pounds to get at some of last year’s hottest hardware, Play.com might be the best bet.
[Via: ArsTechnica]
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
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