If you think $637 US dollars is expensive than prepair to die with the following; Here in AUS currently the iPhone 3GS is 800 Aus Dollar which is about 721 US dollars and the Nexus is the same, most of the latest crop of phones is slightly less.
The iPhone 4 just got priced at 859 and 999 Aus dollars which is 774 and 900 US dollars and the best part, on our Aus ebay the per order for Aus stock 16GB was 1300 Aus which is 1 172 US dollars.
Trust me, i am calling someone in canada rite now to send me a freakin 16GB cause for $637 US (706 Aus) is a freakin bargin! Screw contracts they are useless junk
@Zylam LOL nobody's gonna sell you an unlocked iPhone from another country at retail. My plans are to buy a couple of iPhones unlocked here in Canada and sell them on ebay for at LEAST 50% markup...
Well, I'm not sure how much sales tax is elsewhere, but here in Canada, it's about 13%. That means that's $744 and $880 CAD for the 16 and 32 GB iPhone 4s. Not so cheap now....eh? :p
If you consider you can buy it outright from AT&T for $600 and it isn't unlocked then it's not a bad price at all. Of course sales tax is a bitch but it's the same in the US. The Chinese market is extremely hot for iphone 4's right now. So... if anyone wants to pick up some iphone 4's for me at cost in canada I'd be greatly obliged =P
The iPod touch is what, not even 1/3 of that price? And they charge how much more for a cellular chip and antenna?
The only reason it is so high is because of the artificial pressure created by the practice of carrier subsidization. If that ever goes away and people start buying their service and phones separately, phone prices should end up going into freefall.
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Holy shit at those prices...WTF?!!
@kapanak Yea, thats cheap! Or did you mean its expensive? Hah! Come over to europe and see what expensive unlocked iphones means...
@kapanak
WHAT THE F.K this is NOT EXPENSIVE. Read Bellow
If you think $637 US dollars is expensive than prepair to die with the following; Here in AUS currently the iPhone 3GS is 800 Aus Dollar which is about 721 US dollars and the Nexus is the same, most of the latest crop of phones is slightly less.
The iPhone 4 just got priced at 859 and 999 Aus dollars which is 774 and 900 US dollars and the best part, on our Aus ebay the per order for Aus stock 16GB was 1300 Aus which is 1 172 US dollars.
Trust me, i am calling someone in canada rite now to send me a freakin 16GB cause for $637 US (706 Aus) is a freakin bargin!
Screw contracts they are useless junk
@Zylam LOL nobody's gonna sell you an unlocked iPhone from another country at retail. My plans are to buy a couple of iPhones unlocked here in Canada and sell them on ebay for at LEAST 50% markup...
@Bahumbug Yeah, the prices in Denmark are as following for the unlocked handset:
iPhone 4 16GB $837
iPhone 4 32GB $960
@Andr
Well, I'm not sure how much sales tax is elsewhere, but here in Canada, it's about 13%. That means that's $744 and $880 CAD for the 16 and 32 GB iPhone 4s. Not so cheap now....eh? :p
@kapanak
If you consider you can buy it outright from AT&T for $600 and it isn't unlocked then it's not a bad price at all. Of course sales tax is a bitch but it's the same in the US. The Chinese market is extremely hot for iphone 4's right now. So... if anyone wants to pick up some iphone 4's for me at cost in canada I'd be greatly obliged =P
@kapanak Thats pretty cheap, mate. Here they sell for $1600-2000.
@kapanak
The iPod touch is what, not even 1/3 of that price? And they charge how much more for a cellular chip and antenna?
The only reason it is so high is because of the artificial pressure created by the practice of carrier subsidization. If that ever goes away and people start buying their service and phones separately, phone prices should end up going into freefall.
@kapanak
The prices are normal for unlocked iPhone anywhere in the world. Its around the same price as India.
@Zylam
I guess cheap is relative.
It may be "cheap" for people who used to pay more for unlocked phones but in North America, 99% of the people will find 800$ for a phone expensive.
@trekkie0927
Got to love Alberta, only 5% GST...