{"id":461398,"date":"2010-03-22T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/1005c91e8b9f01cfa156a7bc01ac9d7a"},"modified":"2010-03-22T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T01:15:00","slug":"article-apple-selling-att-locked-iphones-off-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/461398","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: Apple selling AT&amp;T-locked iPhones off contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/3\/97335-iphone-3gs-hands-on.jpg\" alt=\"iPhone 3GS\" width=\"468\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Word is spreading quickly across the blogosphere that the iPhone is now available contract free.&nbsp; I&#8217;m sure everyone&#8217;s first thoughts are &#8220;great now I can get an iPhone on T-Mobile.&#8221;&nbsp; Unfortunately, even though the devices will not require any service contract with AT&amp;T, they are still locked to AT&amp;T&#8217;s network and that means you&#8217;d have to jailbreak and unlock your iPhone (at your own risk) in order to get it working with a T-Mobile SIM card.<\/p>\n<p>The price for an iPhone 3GS off contract is $499 for the 8GB variant, $599 for the 16GB, and $699 for the 32GB phone.&nbsp; It&#8217;s interesting that Apple is deciding to do this now, especially since the Nexus One just became available (or announced for the near future) on all four major US carriers.<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s going to buy a contract-free iPhone tonight?&nbsp; Sound off below!<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/03\/22\/official-apple-now-offering-iphones-unlocked\/\" >Engadget<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobileburn.com\/rumors.jsp?Id=9055\" >MobileBurn<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZEL5RPVfWjHVZ6PK4LO5bZmRlBQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZEL5RPVfWjHVZ6PK4LO5bZmRlBQ\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZEL5RPVfWjHVZ6PK4LO5bZmRlBQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZEL5RPVfWjHVZ6PK4LO5bZmRlBQ\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/cKai7wV3yPo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word is spreading quickly across the blogosphere that the iPhone is now available contract free.&nbsp; I&#8217;m sure everyone&#8217;s first thoughts are &#8220;great now I can get an iPhone on T-Mobile.&#8221;&nbsp; Unfortunately, even though the devices will not require any service contract with AT&amp;T, they are still locked to AT&amp;T&#8217;s network and that means you&#8217;d have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}