Apple Ripe for the Picking?: AT&T Set to Offer No-contract iPhone, No Activation Either

April 14, 2009

Everyone is pushing inventory, even AT&T. According to The Boy Genius Report, beginning in late March AT&T is set to offer the 8GB and 16GB iPhone 3Gs at a no-commitment price, $599 and $699 respectively.

No more point-of-purchase activation and no contracts required. Boy Genius does mention “one per line” which leads to the assumption that you will need an active AT&T line to purchase the phone (a typical requirement to purchase AT&T phones.)

The question lingers, how many units are they really going to move at nearly $600 to $700?

The next question, will this include iPhones geared up with OS 3.0? With promises of 100 new features and more than 1,000 new APIs Apple iPhone geeks may just have found Nirvana. Fierce Wireless reveals other OS 3.0 additions include: In App Purchase, Peer-to-Peer Connectivity (enabling multi-player mobile games and application communication via Bluetooth), Map Kit (in cooperation with Google Mobile Maps Service), and iPod Library Access (enabling applications direct access to music, podcasts, or audio books.)

Posted By Russ · In Industry 

Got something to say?