AT&T announces Apple iPhone 3GS for $49

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AT&T today announced a new price for the popular iPhone 3GS – $49 – available beginning tomorrow, Friday, January 7, for both new and upgrade-eligible existing AT&T customers. The offer will be available online at www.att.com/iphone, across more than 2,200 AT&T retail locations nationwide and through AT&T business channels, as well as Apple channels.**

Available only on the nation’s fastest mobile broadband network, iPhone 3GS delivers the following advantages unique to AT&T and its customers:

• Allows for true smartphone multi-tasking, such as talking and using applications at the same time, on AT&T’s mobile broadband network

• Provides access to our entire national Wi-Fi network with nearly 23,000 hotspots

• Provides the best global coverage with wireless voice and data access in more than 200 countries

“We want to deliver the best, most complete package for our customers – from price, to speed, to worldwide access and more,” said David Christopher, chief marketing officer of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, in the press release. “Combined with our new, lower monthly data plans beginning at just $15 a month, this new price brings even more value to one of the most popular devices in our leading lineup of smartphones. We’re very excited for more people to experience iPhone on the nation’s fastest mobile broadband network.”

Requires new 2-year wireless voice agmt of $39.99 or higher with min $15/mo plan. Subject to wireless customer agrmt. Internal roaming rates or charges apply. Credit approval req’d. Activ. fee up to $36/line. Coverage & svcs, including mobile broadband, not avail everywhere. Geographic, usage & other conditions & restrictions (that may result in svc termination) apply. Taxes & other chrgs apply. See store or visit att.com for details and coverage map. Early Termination Fee (ETF): None if cancelled during first 30 days, but a $35 restocking fee may apply; after 30 days, ETF up to $325 applies (details att.com/equipmentETF). Regulatory Cost Recovery Charge up to $1.25/mo. is chrg’d to help defray costs of complying with gov’t obligations & chrgs on AT&T & is not a tax or gov’t req’d chrg. Wi-Fi: Access includes AT&T Wi-Fi Basic.

Source: AT&T Inc.

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  1. I’m upgrade eligible – I was thinking of waiting until I could spring for an iPhone 4, but this may make me reconsider. ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”grin” style=”border:0;” />

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  5. I am still using my original 2G (1st Gen) iPhone. This is a horrible deal. If I were inclined to commit to a 2-year contract extension (which I am not,) I would get an iPhone 4G – the cost differnce over the 24 months is negligible.

    As it is, I will wait to see what Verizon offers me next month. Maybe some competition will be good for consumers like me.

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  7. What good is having “the nation’s fastest mobile broadband network” if you can’t get a signal? Three generations of my family met for Christmas at grandma’s who lives less than 3 miles from AT&T headquarters in Pleasanton, CA (SF Bay Area.) 6 iPhones (various models) and nobody could get a signal. Grandma started with PacBell Wireless (which became Southern Bell Wireless, then SBC, then Cingular, then AT&T.) Thankfully, one kind AT&T engineer told me a secret that cellular signals tend to gravitate around aluminum streetlight poles, so whenever one of us needs to make a call, out in the rain we go to stand near a streetlight. Verizon iPhone can not arrive too soon!

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  9. For the last time.
    It is NOT the price of the phone that is a problem, it is the outrageously expensive phone plus data plans. Do you really think that someone who can afford the monthly fees can not afford the initial price of the phone? Wake up.

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  11. you gotta love half the public fears the recession — the other half have $200 phones to play games on. ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”wink” style=”border:0;” />
    And the more practical ppl stay thrifty, and hop on a $50 iphone, which is pretty peachy if u ask me.

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  12. I bought the iPhone 3G S (note the space between 3G and S) when it first came out – 32GB. These iPhone 3GS being offered for $49 is only 8GB. I’m holding out for iPhone 5 before my next upgrade.

    If anyone cares, Apple removed the space between 3G and S two weeks after introducing the 32GB iPhone. How’s that for trivia?

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  13. Amen, Chuklz! The very reason I do not have an iPhone right now. to get around the data plan, I use an iPod touch for emails, reading online, etc., and a cheap phone (e.g., piece of junk!). The way I see it, I do not need to be able to get online riding down the highway, out on the lake, etc., just need a cell signal for calls. Then, with wifi about everywhere I go now, I can use my iPod touch for online stuff, and that, free! I have been on ATT for over 5 years…

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  14. Chuklz is right. The total cost of business is the key, not the upfront cost of the phone. In addition to the fact that I am a cheap (thrifty?) SOB, I have four kids, two of them will cell phones. Four phones with data plans costs way too much right now, and I will end up with six phones on my account, eventually. Apple helped to reduce the cost of cellular voice/data plans, but they are still too rich for me to justify the cost.

    Looking forward to the iPhone 8 (or so)…

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  15. 3GS? Is Apple still making those, or are these old stock or refurbs? Sounds like a ploy to “bait” people into ATT Stores, and “switch” them to some “special deal” on an iPhone 4.

    I’m probably getting an iPhone 3GS this summer or fall, a used one in good condition, when all the current owners start to upgrade to iPhone “5” (or whatever it’s called). It will probably cost me about $100-120 (obviously no contract).

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