It seems that Telstra( australia telco ) has announced the pricing the iphone...
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airasia to macau anyone?

If you total up the contract, prepaid fees and everything, you need to pay about hkd9200 for your 8gb iphone 3g, so you might be better staying with your 1st gen iphone which is less than half the price.

3G iPhone is overated & overhype. Those big companies are really smart in taking advantage of the situation & market to sell it to idiots who either thinks:

i) 3G is for video calling

ii) its 3G!!!

iii) its $199

Lol, I bet the next time its gonna be iPhone 3G iPhone HSPDA & people will go all crazy about it again.

You can't blame others who like the phone, don't like iPhone just look at other choices that Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung or ten more mobile phone brands have to offer.

Lol dude, I think you misunderstood me, I myself am an iPhone user but the fact that seeing how those  retards acting all over the world (infact just take a look at the forum under the garage sale) as if the iPhone was only launched the 1st time is really pathetic. I mean c'mon, an added 3G chip + GPS function isn't worth the hype at all.

My mistake then, sorry pal. All I see in Garage Sales on iPhone 3G sales threads are just a bunch of rich fellas with no-brainer and thinks highly on owning the iPhone is just the name and the company brand. They think that it's iPhone, it's so great and bla bla so they have to own it.

I think most of them doesn't even know about the truth behind the $199 price tag and also the new rules on unlocking phones by telcos. This time it ain't the same like it would on the first generation iPhone. Sometimes money really can't buy anything you would want to.

My mistake then, sorry pal. All I see in Garage Sales on iPhone 3G sales threads are just a bunch of rich fellas with no-brainer and thinks highly on owning the iPhone is just the name and the company brand. They think that it's iPhone, it's so great and bla bla so they have to own it.

I think most of them doesn't even know about the truth behind the $199 price tag and also the new rules on unlocking phones by telcos. This time it ain't the same like it would on the first generation iPhone. Sometimes money really can't buy anything you would want to.

AT&T to sell iPhone without contract

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NEW YORK (AP) — AT&T Inc. will sell the new version of the iPhone without a service contract for $400 more than the price with a two-year plan, a break from the rules set when Apple Inc.'s popular touch-screen gadget debuted last year.

Two new models of iPhones go on sale July 11 for $199 and $299, depending on the amount of memory, with two-year AT&T contracts. The no-contract versions will cost $599 and $699 and will be sold sometime "in the future," AT&T said.

Buyers would then go month-to-month on AT&T's service. AT&T said the no-contract phones would be "locked" to work only on AT&T's network, as the contract-laden phones will be.

The new iPhones will have faster data access and more accurate navigation capabilities. The cheaper model will have 8 gigabytes for internal memory, half that of the more expensive model.

The first version of the iPhone was sold in the U.S. without a contract, but AT&T would activate it only with a two-year contract. Many phones ended up being "unlocked" from AT&T's network and shipped overseas.

Also Tuesday, AT&T revealed that the iPhones will go on sale at 8 a.m. local time on July 11. Last year's iPhone launch, which happened in the evening, had Apple devotees camping outside stores in anticipation.

3G iPhone is overated & overhype. Those big companies are really smart in taking advantage of the situation & market to sell it to idiots who either thinks:

i) 3G is for video calling

ii) its 3G!!!

iii) its $199

Lol, I bet the next time its gonna be iPhone 3G iPhone HSPDA & people will go all crazy about it again.