Worried about how much that new iPhone will set you back this June? Well, according to Fortune, AT&T is hoping to ease such price-related concerns by offering a $200 rebate or subsidy for those who sign two-year contracts.
If our math is correct (and Apple keeps the same pricing scheme), that should bring the final price of the 3-G iPhone down to $200 and $300 for the expected 8- and 16-GB versions. Not bad if you can stomach a two-year commitment.
Unfortunately, the $200 subsidy will supposedly be limited to AT&T customers and won't be available through any of Apple's stores, which seems a bit odd to us. For those already in the midst of contracts, the rumored rebate scheme also doesn't make much of a difference. Ultimately, Fortune's masked insider says we can expect the device to go on sale sometime around the one-year anniversary of the original iPhone debut: June 27 or thereabouts. He or she also claims the new iPhone will be 2.5 mm thinner than the 11.7 mm original and will also come with a GPS chip, possibly to track all the bullshit rumors about the next iteration of the iPhone.
[Fortune's Techland Blog]
