In the US: I wasn't currently at the point where I could get the subsidized price for my iPhone 3G when I bought it, so I had to pay full price. It's also, as

In the US: I wasn't currently at the point where I could get the subsidized price for my iPhone 3G when I bought it, so I had to pay full price. It's also, as far as I know, fairly impossible for me to (legally) get it unlocked so I can use it on, say, TMobile.