New Unlocked Apple iPhone Price Tag: $964.00 + plane ticket to France

We already know the wholesale manufacturing cost for the Apple iPhone: $280.

We know the cost of the unlocked fully operational iPhone from T-mobile in Germany: $1483.

And now we know the “discount” unlocked iPhone cost from Orange in France: $964.00

• forbidding the reading newsgroups
• no VoIP (voice over IP) calls allowed (don’t know if restriction is over cell network or wifi or both)
• sharing files over peer-to-peer services
• or using the iPhone as a modem with a notebook PC
• limit usage to around 1MB of data/hour

And oh yeah, don’t forget the trip to Paris to get your “discount” iPhone!