{"id":21539,"date":"2010-06-14T11:27:18","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T10:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.razorianfly.com\/?p=21539"},"modified":"2010-06-14T11:35:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T10:35:05","slug":"japanese-iphone-4-handset-pricing-revealed-insanely-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/14\/japanese-iphone-4-handset-pricing-revealed-insanely-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese iPhone 4 Handset Pricing Revealed, Insanely Expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/category\/blog\/breaking-blog\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the UK waits with bated breath for any one of the 5 telecom networks to announce actual handset pricing for iPhone 4, @9to5Mac is <a href=\"http:\/\/9to5mac.com\/expense_iphone_4?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=twitter&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+9To5Mac-MacAllDay+%289+to+5+Mac+-+Apple+Intelligence%29&#038;utm_content=Twitter\" target=\"_blank\">today reporting<\/a> that Japan has already enjoyed this luxury. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to the site, Japanese mobile telecoms network <a href=\"http:\/\/mb.softbank.jp\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Softbank<\/a> today revealed pricing of the iPhone 4, with the device starting at <strong>57,600<\/strong> yen for the 32GB model and <strong>46,080<\/strong> yen for the 16GB model. <\/p>\n<p>As the site notes, that&#8217;s about <strong>$624<\/strong> for the 32GB model and <strong>$500<\/strong> for the 16GB device. That will be roughly double the cost of the device in the US, as it goes on sale for pre-order tomorrow. <\/p>\n<p>But its not all bad news, because Softbank also announced today it would be offering discounts <em>(just like AT&#038;T are doing with their upgrade offers in the US)<\/em>, if customers agree to take out a 2 year contract with them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cA two year commitment for a 32GB iPhone 4 will cost you 57,600 yen but return 46,080 yen in discounts bringing a total difference of 11,530 yen or around $125 USD.  A 16GB iPhone 4 will cost 46,080 yen with 46,080 yen discount or a whopping 0 yen!\u201d Mobile In Japan explains.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[via @9to5Mac]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the UK waits with bated breath for any one of the 5 telecom networks to announce actual handset pricing for iPhone 4, @9to5Mac is <a href=\"http:\/\/9to5mac.com\/expense_iphone_4?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=twitter&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+9To5Mac-MacAllDay+%289+to+5+Mac+-+Apple+Intelligence%29&#038;utm_content=Twitter\" target=\"_blank\">today reporting<\/a> that Japan has already enjoyed this luxury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2786,174,2144],"tags":[2421,3301,1472,3302,503,3304,3303,2668],"class_list":["post-21539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-app-store","category-apple-blog","category-blog","category-breaking-blog","tag-9to5mac","tag-apple-iphone-4","tag-breaking","tag-expensive","tag-razorianfly","tag-revealed","tag-softbank","tag-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21539"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21547,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21539\/revisions\/21547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}