{"id":652080,"date":"2013-04-12T08:26:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=142719"},"modified":"2013-04-12T08:26:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T12:26:00","slug":"iphone-5-goes-on-sale-at-t-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/652080","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 5 goes on sale at T-Mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Little over two weeks ago, with much fanfare, T-Mobile announced that the iPhone 5 officially arrives<\/a>\u00a0in its smartphone portfolio. And, today, after\u00a0a week of pre-orders<\/a>,\u00a0the Apple-branded handset finally goes on sale at the fourth-largest US mobile operator.<\/p>\n

T-Mobile is the last of the four major mobile networks in the US to get the iPhone 5, after AT&T, Verizon and Sprint. Also, the iPhone 5 is the first fruit-branded smartphone to officially reach the “un-carrier” — as T-Mobile likes to call itself — little short of six years after the first iteration came to market.<\/p>\n

This is a big moment for the mobile operator and Apple, but more so for T-Mobile which has announced that the iPhone 5, in both color choices — white and black — is available for the lowest upfront cost at any of the four major carriers in the US. Furthermore, unlike other major players, T-Mobile automatically lowers the total monthly fees after the smartphone is paid for, subtracting the cost of the installments.<\/p>\n

When purchased alongside\u00a0the Simple Choice Plan, the 16 GB iPhone 5 runs prospective customers $99.99 upfront and $20 per month over the course of two years. For the 32 GB and 64 GB versions of the iPhone 5, customers have to shell out $100 and $200 more, respectively, upfront with the monthly fees remaining unchanged.<\/p>\n

T-Mobile also provides a trade-in offer<\/a>, which eliminates the upfront cost for the iPhone 5 if customers hand over an iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S. They can also get up to $120 in credit, depending on the condition of the device that is traded-in.<\/p>\n

Prospective buyers can purchase the iPhone 5 outright at $579.99, $679.99 and $779.99 for the 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB versions, respectively. T-Mobile’s pricing is $70 lower than Apple charges for the iPhone 5, off-contract<\/a>,\u00a0in each of the three storage trims.<\/p>\n

T-Mobile also offers the iPhone 4, in white and black, with 8 GB of internal storage for $18 upfront and 18 per month over the course of two years or $450 outright. The iPhone 4S is available as well, in the same traditional color trims, with 16 GB of internal storage for $69 upfront and $20 per month for two years or $549.99 outright.<\/p>\n

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Little over two weeks ago, with much fanfare, T-Mobile announced that the iPhone 5 officially arrives\u00a0in its smartphone portfolio. And, today, after\u00a0a week of pre-orders,\u00a0the Apple-branded handset finally goes on sale at the fourth-largest US mobile operator. T-Mobile is the last of the four major mobile networks in the US to get the iPhone 5, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652080","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\/7446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}