How will it work if I buy my iPhone from amazon? - 1

Okay, so I want to buy a new iPhone but I don't want to pay the CRAZY upgrade fee from AT&T. Money is very tight at the moment.So, if I just bought a regular iPhone from amazon or eBay, and brought into the AT&T store or something would it work just fine? I'm confused! Help! Thanks in advance! It would be a 4 or 4s. And i'm with AT&T

If you have an existing contract with AT&T, and you want to use the new phone with the same contract, the only way to do this is to buy the new phone at retail price (the full price, probably not the price you see on eBay or Amazon), then install your SIM card, and off you go. You can do this with any GSM phone.

But if the price on the site is anything less than the retail (which is between $500 and $700 for an iPhone), they you're looking at a contract phone, which means you're looking at a new contract or an upgrade, and you'll probably be hit with the fee.

Either way, you're going to pay. Because Apple and the carriers love to screw people on the iPhone, because they know they can. And people keep coming back and taking it.

Buy it with a 2 year contract. Iphone 4 is free right now with a 2 year contract.AT&T will charge an upgrade fee of $30 or $40… Something like that, which I think is a joke but thats how they work.
That is the best deal out there right now imo. (Although 4 doesn't have Siri, its still a really good phone)

You can normally buy the same deals through any carrier, whether you buy on amazon or not (it will say which carrier its for). With iphone 4 being free I would just go the at&t store to do it if one is near you.