Buy.com Offering Factory Unlocked iPhone 3G
Humberto Saabedra
Buy.com has begun listing a factory unlocked 16GB Apple iPhone 3G for sale at the princely sum of $799.99 with a 30-day warranty.
If correct, this would be the first official listing of a recently unavailable purchasing option, as AT&T and Apple have sold all iPhone hardware, which meant that even paying the $599/$699 price tag for an iPhone without contract meant that the device itself would still be locked to AT&T.
Random searching under the listed part number for the device yielded little in the way of concrete proof that this model is indeed unlocked, as speculation points to the model being offered as being European in origin, since many European countries bar handset locking and carrier exclusivity.
