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All New iPhone 5 for $299

vitzr

vitzr

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Toss out all the other rumors.

If Apple introduces an all new and significantly improved iPhone 5, for $299 will you buy one?

This is about _price_ as much as the actual improvements.

What is your take on this?
 
If the iPhone 4 Plus is supposed to be the low-end, cost effective, cheap alternative iPhone, then why would the iPhone 5 be $299?
 
Of course. It will sell like hotcakes. The contract is over $2000. What's a couple of hundred more for the phone?? If it sells for $500 it will sell like crazy!!

I don't think the price really matters. Slap an Apple logo on a banana and you could sell them for any price you want! :)
 
It seems to be a very American thing to only talk about the iPhone cost with a contract. I'm always seeing "$99 3GS" or "$199 iPhone 4".

I always see it as a £500 phone, because that's what it really costs.
 
Dangerous Theory said:
It seems to be a very American thing to only talk about the iPhone cost with a contract. I'm always seeing "$99 3GS" or "$199 iPhone 4".

I always see it as a £500 phone, because that's what it really costs.
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It is an American thing. The monthly cost is the same whether you buy a subsidized phone or an outright purchase. So it's the contract that you are really buying. The phone cost has little meaning. What's a couple of hundred among friends? :)
 
Is $299 for the base model? (i.e., the iPhone 4 is currently priced at $199 for 16GB and $299 for 32GB). Then probably not unless it's an LTE phone.

I still carry around a lot of music on my phone, so if I'd have to choke up $400 on contract for the largest model size, I couldn't justify it.
 
That would mean the next highest storage capacity would cost $399? I probably wouldn't since that means the early upgrade and no contract prices would probably increase by $100.
 
Dangerous Theory said:
It seems to be a very American thing to only talk about the iPhone cost with a contract. I'm always seeing "$99 3GS" or "$199 iPhone 4".

I always see it as a £500 phone, because that's what it really costs.
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Very few people buy a phone at base price.

iPhone 4 700$ Srsly !@#!#

The american phone with contract is very much an international thing.
 
Invincibilizer said:
Very few people buy a phone at base price.

iPhone 4 700$ Srsly !@#!#

The american phone with contract is very much an international thing.
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I know, I have it on contract too, but I've just noticed the way you guys talk about it compared to British. If someone asked you how much an iPhone 4 costs, you'd probably say $199. We would more likely say £500, rather than £229 or so - from my experience anyway. Just something I picked up on.
 
DeusInvictus7 said:
Are you talking about outright price or on contract? Totally different things, and it would be very hard for Apple to price it at $299 outright...
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Sometimes when our questions answer themselves, we don't have to submit them.
 
In a heartbeat. I might give the wife my old iPhone though instead of getting her the iP5/4S. She just started using my original iPhone so anything she gets will be a huge improvement anyway.
 
I'm buying mine without contract (not eligible for an upgrade yet) so the contract price doesn't matter to me (if that's what you're asking) :)
 
it'll stay the same $199, been that way since iPhone came out, it will probably stay that way
 
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