{"id":1442,"date":"2007-10-16T10:50:39","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T17:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2007-10-16T10:50:39","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T17:50:39","slug":"france-to-legally-sell-unlocked-iphones-for-around-999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/16\/france-to-legally-sell-unlocked-iphones-for-around-999\/","title":{"rendered":"France to legally sell unlocked iPhones for around \u20ac999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a248.e.akamai.net\/7\/248\/2041\/1312\/store.apple.com\/Catalog\/US\/Images\/ac_iphone_070812.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"20\" vspace=\"20\"\/>The French business magazine <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.challenges.fr\/20071016.CHA1963\/exclusif_iphone__orange_reversera_30_des_recettesa_appl.html\">Challenges<\/a><\/i> is reporting that Orange will be selling the world&#8217;s first legally unlocked iPhone for somewhere around &#8364;999 (that&#8217;s about $1,400) later this year. Or &#8364;399 with a subscription, of which Apple gets a 30 percent revenue share. <\/p>\n<p>The iPhone apparently is going for $680 in grey markets in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwire.com\/content\/view\/14871\/1023\/\">Thailand<\/a> and about $400 &#8211; $600 on <a href=\"http:\/\/sfbay.craigslist.org\/search\/sss?query=iphone+unlocked&#038;minAsk=400&#038;maxAsk=max\">Craigslist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/2007\/09\/secrets\/iphone_sim_unlocking\/index.php\">unlocked<\/a> my own for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French business magazine Challenges is reporting that Orange will be selling the world&#8217;s first legally unlocked iPhone for somewhere around &#8364;999 (that&#8217;s about $1,400) later this year. Or &#8364;399 with a subscription, of which Apple gets a 30 percent revenue share. The iPhone apparently is going for $680 in grey markets in Thailand and about $400 &#8211; $600 on Craigslist. I unlocked my own for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[68,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-france","category-iphone","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-ng","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}