New $200 iPhone 3G Actually More Expensive

9.June.2008 | 2 Comments

Earlier today, Steve Jobs and company announced the long expected iPhone 3G. There was a huge cheer when he announced that the phone was going to drop to $199 as the new base price. That is $200 less then when the old iPhone was selling for yesterday. However, AT&T has a catch. They are raising the price of their data plan from $20 a month to $30 a month. Since you have to pick up a two year contact with the new $199 iPhone, that means you’ll be paying $919 over the life of the contract for your iPhone. The old pricing which just a $20 a month data plan would have set you back $879 if you were to have purchased the $399 iPhone.

Now that is clever marketing. And to think I was seriously considering getting an iPhone just a couple hours ago.

2 Comments

  1. Citizen Grim

    11.June.2008 at 12:55 pm Reply to this comment

    Interesting. Did you know AT&T stands for American Telephone & Telegraph? $30 is a bit of a tough sell, especially when the average consumer compares it to the cost of what internet service they already have

  2. Peter V Cook

    11.June.2008 at 1:03 pm Reply to this comment

    I did know that AT&T stands for American Telephone & Telegraph, which is why I am also disappointed that I can’t send telegraphs from the iPhone. You would think for $919, it would have that.

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