I think the discrepancy here is stores for different countries. Go the the US store [1] and it says Can I buy an iPhone without an AT&T contract? No. iPho

I think the discrepancy here is stores for different countries. Go the the US store [1] and it says Can I buy an iPhone without an AT&T contract? No. iPhone requires a two-year AT&T wireless service contract as Groxx pointed out above. I believe that AT&T (the only iPhone carrier in the US) prevents people from buying unlocked iPhones new so that people can't buy them and use them with a cheaper plan or carrier. [1] http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone#faqs http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iph...