Filed under: Hardware, Retail, Rumors, iPhone
iPhone to cost only $300-400 with contract?
Now take this all with a grain of salt; this info and the accompanying image would be easy to fake, and the designer in me says it could be exactly that. Nevertheless, a romp through iPhone dreamland couldn't hurt, and more realistic prices of $300 and $400 would put a lot of smiles on the faces of iPhone hopefuls. Heck, at the least, it would mean Steve Ballmer has a little less to say about Apple's first mobile phone.
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Steven said 3:43PM on 2-16-2007
I think you meant Ballmer. ;-)
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Josh said 3:51PM on 2-16-2007
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/399-iphone-rumor-cingulars-rate-plans-leaked-lol-237422.php
Gizmodo was the first I saw to report it and they say it was Photoshopped
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Mark Fleser said 3:50PM on 2-16-2007
It's obviously a fake.
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Fred said 4:01PM on 2-16-2007
I think it looks just crappy enough to be real, myself
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Petros Kolyvas said 4:02PM on 2-16-2007
Oh yeah. Cingular would definitely use the stock (ie one of the few) official iPhone photo with a stupid hand holding the phone. The black background makes it look totally realistic, can't you see that.
I don't know why people think it could be fake. It's so real. Only a Cingular design could use cut and paste so professionally.
Oh and that girl in the photo, you know, she wants to be using an iPhone, she really does, but she can't. She's not even cool enough for them to let her have one for the stock photo shoot.
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Neven said 5:15PM on 2-16-2007
While this is quite likely a fake, the amateurish nature of the ad should not be considered proof of it. Cingular's official iPhone page uses the same press photo by Apple. If this were put together as an early ad mockup or for a survey question, this is exactly what it would look like.
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Quix said 6:08PM on 2-16-2007
Earlier rumors of Apple not wanting "discount pricing" on the iPhone to tarnish their "premium product" brand rang true to me. So I'd expect to see the subsidization occur on the calling plans and not the iPhone itself.
At least there better be some subsidization SOMEWHERE.
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holo said 5:07PM on 2-26-2007
hasnt apple already come out and said publicly that theres no price breaks on these phones?
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Stacey said 5:18PM on 2-26-2007
Yeah, I think they have said no price breaks, but that doesn't mean that can't change their mind. If they want to reach the market they are shooting for, they'll have to drop the price some, no matter how good the product is.
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jason said 10:59AM on 2-27-2007
Here is cingular's real iPhone page.
http://www.cingular.com/cell-phone-service/specials/iPhone.jsp
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