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I don't know whether you're serious, but iPhone 3GS is $1 on AT&T (on-contract, I know.).

• Spearchucker 15y ago
  In places like Africa you buy phones from a stall in a market square. No contracts, because they're not enforceable. I think the only credible (and very real[1]) competitor to low-spec Android handsets is Windows Phone, which with the Tango update will run on really low-spec hardware. Nokia is playing a solid game here. [1] Real because Nokia rule the feature-phone market, not so much in Asia but very much in Africa. Nokia have a reputation for quality there that Android, as the new kid on the block, will have a hard time displacing.
• Geee 15y ago
  Which part of 'on-contract' you didn't understand? The full phone price is in the price of contract with interest. Of course you can buy sub-$50 phones on contract too, in which case the monthly payment would be much lower than AT&T's $99 iPhone plan, of which about half goes towards the phone payment.