Buying 4S Unlocked vs. Contract: Your Thoughts?

[rgG]

sekker wrote:
[quote=rgG]
Just buy a used iPhone, locked, and put it on one of the AT&T MVNOs. You can get unlimited talk, text and 250MB of data for $50, or unlimited talk and text and 2GB of data for $60. There are no taxes and no fees. The data will probably not be as fast as on contract, but you are paying a lot less.

The phone does not need to be unlocked and everything except MMS works. There are even ways to get MMS to work, sometimes, if that is important to you. There are at least three MVNOs out there offering plans similar to this.

With iOS5, you would still have iMessage for free texting, too.
Yep, and there are apps like Instagram that let you send pics also.

My daughter and I both have iPhones, 4 not 4s, on prepaid plans. She is on the AT&T network and I am on Verizon. Since I am the one paying the bills, I am very happy.