For Black Friday, Best Buy will be selling the iPhone for $100 with a contract.
I'm assuming, its a 2 yr contract and not sure if its a 4GB or 8GB or 3G.
Hope its hot enough.
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For Black Friday, Best Buy will be selling the iPhone for $100 with a contract.
I'm assuming, its a 2 yr contract and not sure if its a 4GB or 8GB or 3G.
Hope its hot enough.
Not showing on the Black Friday's AD. Not a confirmed deal until further proof.
It would have to be an 8GB 3G iphone at the minimum. 4GB non 3G are no longer manufactured.
im thinking BB is going to pull the GC trick.... $199 - $100 bb gift card = $99 iphone
hmmm my first notion of where i will be friday morning.
each store will have like 10 or 20 with at least hundreds trying for those 10 or 20. If it's real I'll try for one, but if it's that GC crap, I will pass.
JamManXC said:im thinking BB is going to pull the GC trick.... $199 - $100 bb gift card = $99 iphone
I'm inclined to agree. Unless Apple has relaxed pricing for BF, I believe the most a retailer can do is provide their own incentives. I'm not sure if they can actually cut the price.
partialinsomniac said:JamManXC said:im thinking BB is going to pull the GC trick.... $199 - $100 bb gift card = $99 iphone
I'm inclined to agree. Unless Apple has relaxed pricing for BF, I believe the most a retailer can do is provide their own incentives. I'm not sure if they can actually cut the price.
qft
Sucks that it won't just be a sale for the week. I am going to be eligible for an upgrade with AT&T on the 4th of December...
@Sychev22 - FWIW, I was informed by an Apple CSR a few months ago that an AT&T rep will usually be willing to bump up your upgrade eligibility date if it isn't too far off and you explain that there is a deal such as this that you would like to take advantage of. Good luck with it!
BADsirIVAN said:@Sychev22 - FWIW, I was informed by an Apple CSR a few months ago that an AT&T rep will usually be willing to bump up your upgrade eligibility date if it isn't too far off and you explain that there is a deal such as this that you would like to take advantage of. Good luck with it!That's good news! Thanks a lot for that one
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As more and more deals have been available online over the last few BFs, I've stopped camping out. You really have to be a glutton for punishment to want to stand in line for probably 8-12 hours or more and then buy and activate an iPhone in store during Black Friday. Can you even imagine them trying to activate phones in that chaos? Plus, you'll probably miss tons of deals online that are available at midnight or throughout the night/early morning because you're standing in line.
I'm a HUGE iPhone fan but I simply couldn't ever bring myself to call any iPhone a hot deal due to AT&T's exorbitant rate plans (nevermind AT&T's subpar network, with a far smaller 3G footprint than Sprint/Verizon/Alltel).
iPhone rate plans START at $69.99 w/ 450 anytime minutes, 8pm nights & weekends, and unlimited data, period.
Sprint Everything Plus plans, for $10/mo less, include 50 more minutes, unlimited texting ($20/mo with AT&T), 7 pm nights ($9/mo with AT&T), unlimited true navigation (on most Sprint phones, not available on the iPhone but $10/mo on supported AT&T phones), and unlimited push-to-talk on supported phones (not available on iPhone but $5/mo on AT&T with a supported phone).
So let's take a Palm Treo 800W as an example phone on Sprint -- $200 out-the-door at Best Buy, plus $60/mo for all above-mentioned services (plus the 800W will run WMWiFiRouter which will let you use it as a Sprint data to WiFi bridge, ironically letting you serve WiFi to an iPod Touch anywhere Sprint has EVDO service -- with much greater coverage area than AT&T 3G service -- and at greater speeds than AT&T 3G).
The total for 2 years, including the price of the phone (and unlimited navigation) would be $1640 (plus taxes and fees of course) on Sprint. The iPhone would cost a total of $2476++ for the same services for 2 years (or $2716 if it were available with navigation).
That's a minimum of $836 more for the iPhone over two years, which makes the effective cost of the iPhone $936, even at this discounted price.
And with more minutes, the cost of the iPhone just goes up. With Sprint Simply Everything, all calling/messaging/data/nav/PTT is unlimited for $100/mo., with the iPhone plan it would be $150/mo, (not including nav/PTT) for a total of $2600 for 2 years on Sprint vs $3700 on ATT, making the effective cost of the iPhone $1200.
The kicker is the iPod Touch, which costs $220 at Amazon, and does literally everything the iPhone does except for the phone-related functions (it still has email/Safari browser/iPod music+video, App Store, accelerometers, etc). And the iPod Touch is even significantly thinner than the iPhone.
And yes, the Treo 800W has real GPS with real navigation (Telenav rebranded by Sprint), threaded messaging, location services, and with WMWiFiRouter it will bridge Sprint EVDO data to any WiFi-equipped device (again, including the iPod Touch).
Would I rather have just an iPhone? Absolutely. Would I pay $600+ more for it over 2 years than an iPod Touch + Sprint Treo 800W? Never.
^Or if you still have a $30 SERO plan, the iPhone looks even more expensive in comparison. I'll be holding onto that plan for as long as I can.
rbraden said:^Or if you still have a $30 SERO plan, the iPhone looks even more expensive in comparison. I'll be holding onto that plan for as long as I can.
ditto
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