{"id":698339,"date":"2010-03-22T18:46:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T22:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/?p=28281"},"modified":"2010-03-22T18:46:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T22:46:20","slug":"iphones-now-available-without-contract-at-the-apple-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/698339","title":{"rendered":"iPhones now available without contract at the Apple Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/contract.jpg?resize=500%2C261\" alt=\"\" title=\"contract\" width=\"500\" height=\"261\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28282\" \/><br \/>\nI&#8217;m surprised this didn&#8217;t happen earlier. You can now go into an Apple store, fork over a few Benjamins, and walk out with an iPhone, <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5499439\/how-to-buy-iphones-without-contract\">contract-free<\/a>, although the device is still locked into AT&#038;T&#8217;s network. You can only buy one a day, though, I suppose to prevent people from buying a few hundred and building a fort of out of them.<\/p>\n<p>Good news for some, non-news for others. And just as a reminder: 3G 8GB, $499; 3GS 16GB, $599; 3GS 32GB, $699.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/V5nEL-qHmo5y234LPWWPjgVffSw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/V5nEL-qHmo5y234LPWWPjgVffSw\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/V5nEL-qHmo5y234LPWWPjgVffSw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/V5nEL-qHmo5y234LPWWPjgVffSw\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=3YRn2MtIbaI:OQ78od5iGJc:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=3YRn2MtIbaI:OQ78od5iGJc:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=3YRn2MtIbaI:OQ78od5iGJc:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=3YRn2MtIbaI:OQ78od5iGJc:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=3YRn2MtIbaI:OQ78od5iGJc:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m surprised this didn&#8217;t happen earlier. You can now go into an Apple store, fork over a few Benjamins, and walk out with an iPhone, contract-free, although the device is still locked into AT&#038;T&#8217;s network. You can only buy one a day, though, I suppose to prevent people from buying a few hundred and building [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":804,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2VFx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/804"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}