Price of 3G iPhone May Be Cut to $200

[soumya]

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AT&T is planning to put some extra shine on the even sleeker new Apple iPhone.

When the 3G iPhone is introduced this summer, AT&T, the exclusive U.S. iPhone sales partner with Apple, will cut the price by as much as $200, according to a person familiar with the strategy.

AT&T is preparing to subsidize $200 of the cost of a new iPhone, bringing the price down to $199 for customers who sign two-year contracts, the source says. Apple is expected to have two versions of the new iPhone, an 8-gigabyte-memory and a 16-gigabyte-memory model with price tags widely expected to be $399 and $499.

AT&T and Apple declined to comment.

*techland.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/04/29/att-to-cut-the-price-of-apples-new-iphone/

 

[ico]

Cutting prices of 3G iPhone in US & UK won't affect us Indians........

Just don't launch that iPhone for more than 22K here in India......

 

[iMav]

Cutting prices of 3G iPhone in US & UK won't affect us Indians........

yes it will, I know a lot of people who import it from the US

 

[Hrithan2020]

Cutting prices of 3G iPhone in US & UK won't affect us Indians........

Just don't launch that iPhone for more than 22K here in India......

Would be really nice if the 16 GB version was available for 20 K.

 

[ico]

yes it will, I know a lot of people who import it from the US

I actually meant to say.......There will be a price cut in the US, but in India (officially) it is going to sell even at a higher price than the US.

Would be really nice if the 16 GB version was available for 20 K.

In my & your dreams......

Where is aryayush?
Just wanted to tell him that I tried out the iPhone of my father's friend yesterday and again repeat....
Crappy Camera & no real functionality of Bluetooth.....(I don't want to make this thread again a iPhone bashing thread...)
.....Though I give it a 10 on the interface

 

[Pathik]

The UI and Safari. Only pluses of the iPhone.

 

[goobimama]

bringing the price down to $199 for customers who sign two-year contracts

Well. If that's the case, then I don't think importing it is very much possible...

 

[abhinandh]

^^yep not many would benifit.
only those who sign a 2 year contract with AT&T get the price cut(th rest of th amount will be sucked from your wallet from AT&T in the meantime anyway )

 

[net_addict]

cnt there be a single thread where everything related to iphone is put in ?

 

[aryayush]

Again, this is an unsubstantiated rumour that has absolutely no chance of being true.

 

[desiibond]

200$ 3G iphone is bullshit news.

unless they put extremely high rentals in the contract, as a result of which apple gets more money every month from ATT and on the long run, making more profit that they had with the first gen iphone.

but even this seems unlikely.