# Get Your Very Own Refurbished iPhone

- Link: https://www.timprobst.com/2007/08/23/get-your-very-own-refurbished-iphone/
- Published: 2007-08-23T17:30:33-05:00
- Author: Tim Probst

⌊iPhone⌉⌊iPhone⌉For all of you out there with iPhone envy but little tiny bank accounts(
like ours), I read some good news over on [TUAW](http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/20/iphone-now-available-as-refurb/)
the other day. Apple is now offering Apple Certified Refurbished iPhones at [The Apple Store](http://store.apple.com)
for $399 for the 4 GB model and $499 for the 8 GB model. That is $100 off the list
price for each model! If you just couldn’t bring yourself to spend $499 for a device
with only 4 GB of storage, perhaps $399 sounds a whole lot better. Unfortunately
for me, I’m still out of the market for an iPhone mostly because I have a BlackBerry
through work, and I suppose the price tag is still a bit out of reach right now 
as well, but I bet there are a lot more people out there considering an iPhone purchase
with the lower prices for the refurbished models.

To add a little perspective as far as Apple’s iPhone pricing is concerned, I ran
out in October of 2001 and bought an iPod for $399 because I was (and still am) 
an Apple freak. That $399 bought me a devise that could play music, and that was
it. Sure there were some other little features like a game or two, but the iPod
was predominately a music player. Now, the iPhone is a music player, a video player,
a wireless Internet device, and a cell phone. That’s a lot of functionality squeezed
into a stunning little piece of machinery. So I guess $399 doesn’t sound all that
bad after all.

Now, what did I do with that Powerball ticket?