On Sep 13, 2012, at 5:07 PM, Nathan Sims wrote: > On Sep 13, 2012, at 3:51 PM, LuKreme wrote: > >> Nathan Sims spake on Thursday 13-Sep-2012@16:27:15 >>> I see that Apple is now selling the 4S for $99 with a 2 year contract. From >>> the web page, it looks like there's no way to know how much that's going to >>> cost out the door without actually signing up to a contract with either >>> ATT, Verizon or Sprint. >>> >>> Does anyone know about how much the cheapest possible contract would run? I >>> want to get one for my aging parents who only need it as a portable >>> emergency phone, no data, texting, etc. >> >> You can't do that with an iPhone. a Data plan is required. If you have a >> phone that is qualified to be unlocked, unlock it and give it your parents >> with a cheap t-Mobile contract and buy yourself a new phone. > > They already have a "dumb" cell phone, (Samsung/T-Mobile) but it's designed > so poorly they can't reliably figure out how to use it. They liked the 4S I > showed them, so I just wanted to give it a try. > > Could I possibly put their T-Mobile SIM card into a 4S? Will that "just work" > (I think I tried it before and it didn't) or are there some shenanigans I'd > have to go through to do it? Not really into jailbreaking... >
Not unless you unlock it, which AT&T won't due unless you are deploying military outside of CONUS or your phone is out of contract (which a 4S won't be yet). Some third parties claim to be able to unlock them. You can get unlocked iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS used though. -- _______________________________________________ iPhone-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/iphone-talk
