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$15 iPhone Replacement

Yes. You read that right. Fifteen dollars. I cracked the glass on the front of my iPhone and sent it in for a replacement. However, that means I will be without a phone for 2–3 days.

It turns out that Wal-Mart (of all places) sells a Go Phone. This is a pre-paid phone that allows you to get a cellphone without a contract or a credit check.

BUT, if you take the SIMM card out of your iPhone and place it in the Nokia 2610. It works perfectly. You can make and receive calls to your cellphone number without calling AT&T and changing, activating or calling AT &T.

You just charge up the phone, pop in the card and away you go. The Nokia has text messaging, e-mail, caller ID, call waiting and a lot of other features. In fact, they really try to upsell the games, ring tones and anything else they can sell you on. I ignore all of that and have an iPhone replacement for $15. They had a number of different Go Phone options, but I decided to go with inexpensive. I can live with the Nokia for the 2–3 days it takes to get a replacement iPhone.

Full post as published by South Carolina Trial Law Blog on February 04, 2009 (boomark / email).