When the new iPhone was announced, everyone became excited. The new phone would house a whole new set of extra features, faster speeds, and best of all, be $200 cheaper than the current iPhone. Sounds like great news, if Apple wasn’t trying to pull a bait and switch on its customers.

While the iPhone does cost a lot less, all the fees you’ll be paying to just use the darn thing will quickly add up. The data plan alone now costs an extra $10 a month, raising the price to $30 a month. Over the period of your two year MANDATORY contract, that works out to an extra $240 (TOTAL: $720… ouch). AT&T now charges $5 for 200 text messages, a feature that used to be free. This adds yet another $120 to your growing bill.

Sure, you’ve managed to save yourself $200 on the phone itself, but over two years you’ll be paying $360 extra for the features. Thats $160 MORE than what users are paying now.

While many are suggesting that this raise in price can be justified for all the extra features, I can’t help but feel that Steve Jobs is trying to screw over his customers with complete lies. During his keynote, Jobs can be quoted as saying…

Everybody wants an iPhone, but we need to make it more affordable. And we know this because we go out and talk to people who didn’t buy iPhones, and the number one reason, by far — they all want one — is they just can’t afford it. Some of them can’t afford it. So we need to make the iPhone more affordable.

Because in Steve Jobs’ world, paying MORE for something somehow makes it more affordable.

Heres a rundown of the numbers again courtesy of Gizmondo.com

I’ll wait for the jailbreak thank you.

SOURCES:

http://consumerist.com/tag/iphone/?i=5014850&t=the-new-199-iphone-is-160-more-expensive-than-the-399-iphone-it-replaced-what
http://gizmodo.com/5015540/iphone-3gs-true-price-compared.