Unlocked Apple iPhone 3G for $799 at Buy.com
By James Falconer on Monday, April 13th, 2009 at 6:57 AM PST In Apple, iPhone
Want to pick up an unlocked iPhone that comes with full Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) warranty and iTunes update capability? Wouldn’t it be nice to not have to worry about jailbreaking ever again! Well, now you can thanks to the folks over at Buy.com. It’ll cost you a pretty penny ($799) but this deal is for real. No doubt this is just another method of clearing out ‘old stock’ before the next-gen iPhones hit us this summer…
Some key points from Buy.com regarding the unlocked iPhone 3G:
- Connect the iPhone to iTunes
- Update the iPhone software when the updates are available from Apple
- Purchase apps from the iTunes library or the Apps store on the iPhone
- Use AT&T (NYSE: T) or T-Mobile (NYSE: DT) in the USA Or one of the 30 different GSM carriers all over the US.
- Use with any GSM carriers globally Introducing iPhone 3G. With fast 3G wireless technology, GPS mapping, support for enterprise features like Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Exchange, and the new App Store, iPhone 3G puts even more features at your fingertips. And like the original iPhone, it combines three products in one a revolutionary phone, a widescreen iPod, and a breakthrough Internet device with rich HTML email and a desktop-class web browser. iPhone 3G. It redefines what a mobile phone can do again.
If you’ve got a cool $800 to spare, and would love to run an iPhone on T-Mobile or any other GSM carrier without the hassle of jailbreaking… You can check out the unlocked iPhone 3G’s over at Buy.com.
[Via: MobileCrunch]
Lame
I hope no one buys this..
but you will, oh you will
This is not fully jailbroken. You still have ONLY one option for downloading apps… and that’s through the app store. You’re still locked into that.
For $800, I can buy a very nice notebook computer with WAY more capability, including phone capability (or, for $200 more, a full blown desktop in the palm of my hand that I can install any OS on (XP/Vista/Linux/Hackintosh): http://www.oqo.com/store/shop.cgi/op/op_index.html).
If I want a computer, I buy a computer. If I want a phone, I buy a phone. If I want a combination and NO lock-in, I buy a Windows Mobile device. Plus, I can (and do) write my own apps for it and don’t have to ask permission from Apple (or Microsoft), nor do I have to pay either of them a single red cent to do it. AND, if I choose to sell my apps, i can, on my OWN website, and not share a single red cent of my profit with Apple or Microsoft. People love to hate Microsoft (and there are plenty of reasons to do so), but Windows Mobile is a fully open platform (not open source, of course)) and very powerful, despite it’s lack of a “designer” look and feel in the UI.
For Windows Mobile, I’ve written apps that track my travels via GPS and export the data via Google Earth KML files, apps that scan UPC barcodes and lookup the product details via a web service, track my weight, do price comparisons (in store), etc… There’s virtually no limit to what I can create using Windows Mobile and I’ve got complete freedom to do with the app, what I want.
Oh! I thought its a joke! Who would pay $800 for an iPhone when there are many other ways to buy it at a cheaper price?
Not worth it for sure
I went to my corporate sales agent at AT&T and they have never heard of buy.com before. They said that all of there corporate customers use a company named American Wireless for the unlocked phones, so we ended up using them. They also offered us $200 off the iPhone if we went with a new T-Mobile contract and since we were going to be going with T-Mobile any way we jumped on that option.