Can you buy an iPhone and set it up when you want?
Okay so on Best Buy.com the iPhone I want is 16GB with a 2 YEAR CONTRACT. Well I have a 2 year contract right now on a non-smart phone I was wondering if I could buy this two year phone but, not set it up till after this contract ended?
Technically yes, but the contract payments start regardless. Better thing to do would be to try to end that current 2 year contract & then get the iPhone.
As Scott said, you'd be better off waiting until your current contract is up, then buy the iPhone. Depending on how much longer you have on your current contract, there may be a newer iPhone by then anyway (probably around this time next year).
Of course, if you can afford it, you could always buy the iPhone "SIM-free" direct from Apple at any time, then activate it once your current contract is up. (If you do that, my advice would be to go prepaid, as you can save lots of money in the long run. $60/month for unlimited talk/text/data (2.5GB at full 4G LTE speeds, then unlimited data at slower speeds until the billing cycle is up) from T-Mobile, and similar plans from AT&T GoPhone or AIO Wireless. (You can't use the contract-free iPhone on Verizon, as it uses GSM instead of the CDMA technology that Verizon uses.)
You can check the pricing for SIM-free iPhones here:
http://store.apple.com/...uy-iphone/
The 16GB iPhone 5S, for example, is $649 when you buy it contract-free. (It comes with an unactivated T-Mobile nano-SIM card in it, but you can easily switch it out with an AT&T nano-SIM, or any other GSM carrier's nano-SIM).It sounds expensive, but over the long run, you'll save enough money with prepaid to pay for the phone.
Hope that helps!
If you buy it on contract price then obviously you have to start paying the contract.
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