Walmart drops iPhone 5 price to $129, 4S for $39
Walmart is now offering Apple's iPhone 5 at one of the lowest prices available, just $129, and the retail giant is also offering the iPhone 4S for under $40.
Walmart announced on Saturday that it would slash the prices of the last two generations of Apple's bestselling handset. The iPhone 5 will see a discount of nearly a third, dropping from $189 to $129, while the iPhone 4S will see a 56 percent discount, dropping from $89 to $39.
Both devices are available at the listed price contingent upon customers signing up for a new two-year contract with one of three carriers. Customers can choose from AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint.
The discount ranks Walmart among the most affordable providers of the iPhone 5. Electronics retailer Best Buy recently restarted its iPhone trade-in program, which will run through the end of June. That program allows customers signing up for a new contract to receive up to $150 off the cost of an on-contract iPhone 5 if they trade in an iPhone 4 or 4S.
Walmart announced on Saturday that it would slash the prices of the last two generations of Apple's bestselling handset. The iPhone 5 will see a discount of nearly a third, dropping from $189 to $129, while the iPhone 4S will see a 56 percent discount, dropping from $89 to $39.
Both devices are available at the listed price contingent upon customers signing up for a new two-year contract with one of three carriers. Customers can choose from AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint.
The discount ranks Walmart among the most affordable providers of the iPhone 5. Electronics retailer Best Buy recently restarted its iPhone trade-in program, which will run through the end of June. That program allows customers signing up for a new contract to receive up to $150 off the cost of an on-contract iPhone 5 if they trade in an iPhone 4 or 4S.
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Originally Posted by ifij775
What's the ETA on the 5S?
Your guess is as good as any. Assuming iOS 7 gets completed soon enough I would guess around early September.
~October, of course.
I don't understand. I go to AT&T, the iPhone costs $199 plus tax, total price around $212.
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Originally Posted by maccherry
Ok, tell me why the hell should Apple enter the market with a cheap iPhone when the the 4s is now going for $39 with a two year contract at Walmart? Keep building the goddamn 4s. Duh!
It's $39 because the carrier pays for the other $500. And cheap iPhones are needed for the developing world. My friends in China told me that $600 / month is a very decent salary for young professionals (25 - 30 years old) and if you make $1000 per month, you've "made it" (think $100K annual salary in the US). Also, the perception over there is that they don't want an older generation model. They want the latest, cheapest device with a bigger screen, something that the iPhone 4S also doesn't have.
Us Americans have the most buying power, but we are not the world.
Because that's a US carrier subsidy price? Without that subsidy, the phone costs $549.
Still a $70 savings however.
Apple will likely keep the 4s as the low end model and these rumors are anoying.
The IPad mini came because the IPad is high price and is steadily, heavily becoming above market average screen size.
The true cost of the phone is in the 2 year extra payment you make for it being subsidized. There's a reason why I can pay $80/month for me and my wife to have unlimited everything with cheap phones as opposed to 120-140 with someone else using the iPhone.
Do a little math and see how good the deal is.
"Your idiots."
Okay.
is the taxable amount thingy a state-by-state issue? in california the tax is calculated on the unsubsidized price. at least, that's what i paid. and i i'm not so paranoid to think that they singled out just me.
my idiots (affectionately referred to as your idiots) can't do math. can yours?
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Originally Posted by Napoleon_PhoneApart
"Your idiots."
Okay.
Let's go ahead and deflect by focusing on something that's not the real issue.
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Originally Posted by Pooch
my idiots (affectionately referred to as your idiots) can't do math. can yours?
Yes.
well, i dunno, i find that when insulting people by calling them idiots it's best to do it with proper spelling, grammar, syntax, and that lot. i mean, your idiots may be good at maths but that's it. and that, too, is a real issue.
Then it's best to not call people idiots while making such a dumb flub at almost the exact same instant. Calling people idiots in making a fifth grade math mistake while making a fifth grade grammar mistake doesn't look good on anyone.