Apple Drops iPhone 3GS to $49
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Apple has dropped the price of the iPhone 3GS to $49, a week after AT&T did the same.
That Apple has made this official — even adding the price to the blurb on the phone’s webpage, makes this a permanent price drop, not just an offer from a telco to boost new year sales.
The 8-GB handset can be purchased for this price only on a new two-year contract, which means that buyers will miss out not just on the iPhone 4 but also the iPhone after that, whatever it may be called.
Apple has established a pattern of selling last year’s iPhone model for $99 in the US, and we imagine that this will continue with the iPhone 4 in the summer. This is the first time, though, that the iPhone has cost just $49, likely a side-effect of the 3GS using the almost three-year-old body-design first seen in the 3G.
Anyhow, if you’re happy to sign up for two years with AT&T, then you can now have an iPhone for the price of an iPod Shuffle. And that’s plain nuts.
iPhone 3GS [Apple]
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