iPhone to cost only $300-400 with contract?

If the iPhone's prices of $500 and $600 with contract were a little too much for your wallet to stomach, you might take solace in some new info allegedly leaked from a ~~Cingular~~ AT&T consumer survey (Wait: do wallets really have stomachs?). Engadget has the details on the possibility of the iPhone actually costing a full $200 less, putting the price points at $300 and $400 (for the 4GB and 8GB models, respectively) with a contract, meaning that the $500 and $600 prices could ultimately be for out-of-contract purchases.

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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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/16/iphone-to-run-300-400-aft…

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jason

Here is cingular's real iPhone page.

http://www.cingular.com/cell-phone-service/specials/iPhone.jsp

February 27 2007 at 10:59 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Stacey

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.

February 26 2007 at 5:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

holo

hasnt apple already come out and said publicly that theres no price breaks on these phones?

February 26 2007 at 5:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chris Wirick

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.

February 16 2007 at 6:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Neven

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.

February 16 2007 at 4:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

dialing_wand

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.

February 16 2007 at 4:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Fred

I think it looks just crappy enough to be real, myself

February 16 2007 at 4:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mark Fleser

It's obviously a fake.

February 16 2007 at 3:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Josh

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

February 16 2007 at 3:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Steven

I think you meant Ballmer. ;-)