No free lunches

At Mario's I wrote that I too was eager to get my hands on an iPhone 3G, the $199 USD version which is about 125 Euros (of course it won't go out at this price but let's daydream for a while). But I think I pulled the trigger a bit soon because I paid a visit to the online Apple Store only to spot the following, roughly translated, small print:

The iPhone includes up to two years of free technical support, for the duration of the contract with your mobile operator

WHAT?! A two year contract? Unless it's a competitive monthly fee, e.g. 35 Euros, unlimited data (but of the actually unlimited kind), I won't really consider it. At least until someone finds a way of breaking the operator lock so that I can use it with my pay-as-you-go voice call service plus 100MB of mobile data (you know, the small and compact kind) that currently costs me roughly 20 Euros per month[1].

[1] Expect a full explanation of these costs sometime later tonight.

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