Used iPhone, Anyone?

[Nick]

AT&T features a refurbished phones section on its Web site, offering 71 used models

Apple is just the latest in a growing number of companies warming to the idea of
selling refurbished mobile phones in the U.S.

If you haven't yet purchased a $599 iPhone? You're in luck. You can now buy the
gadget directly from Apple for $100 less -- if you don't mind getting used goods.

Apple began selling refurbished versions of the music-playing mobile phone on
August 19, which originally hit store shelves June 29. The consumer electronics
maker joins a growing number of mobile-phone suppliers that are certifying and
providing warranty support for used handsets sold in the U.S.

More @ BusinessWeek.com (http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2007/tc20070822_318612.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily)

[funhouse69]

I saw this the other day on some website. I went to the Apple Website and sure enough they had them for $100 (both flavors). It does however make me wonder why they have refurbs already... Have they had that many problems with them?

I did hear that a number of them were having issues where parts of the touch screen would go bad / no longer respond to touch. I've also heard that there is some other issue that hasn't really been talked about much as of yet but might be much larger in the future. Something about some sensor but didn't get the details.

From what I understand the refurbished units are are covered by the same warranty so if you are looking for one why the heck not save the $100.

I'm still sitting on the sidelines wanting one bad but not bad enough to spend $600 or even $500 for the refurb one and switch from Verizon who in my area has proven to be the best provider hands down. Now that Cingular has merged with AT&T maybe they have gotten their stuff together a little more? I was hoping that I might be able to get an employee discount seeing that I work for the provider but that isn't going to happen. I can only get a discount (and not a very good one in my opinion) on the service.

My contract with Verizon is up in November, I will make my decision then. I know that Verizon is supposed to be coming out with a couple of killer phones themselves in the next few weeks to months. While I know that they will NEVER been as cool as the i-phone I will wait and see what they are. Maybe one of them will be worth checking out.

[DonLandis]

One will be the XV6800. Sprint has them now under the name of Mogul. I have the XV6700 and it will perform rings around the iphone version 1. It just doesn't have that "cool" factor that an iphone has. MY XV6700 works so well that I'm not sure I'll upgrade. What I would recommend is you get both. Use the XV6800 for serious communications, and the iphone you can pass around your friends and be admired. :)