Can you buy the iphone and not use the phone?

[thumper]

we dont have Rogers AT&T in my small canadian town.
but i was wondering if i could buy the iphone from apple
and just use it as a video ipod, and interent.

 

[AirmanPika]

As of right now...no. Now a few weeks from now there will probably be a plethora of them on ebay and people will know if you can have any functionality without having the phone on the network.

 

[ps49556n]

we dont have Rogers AT&T in my small canadian town.
but i was wondering if i could buy the iphone from apple
and just use it as a video ipod, and interent.

This question has been answered hundreds of time, do a search. The iPhone requires a two-year ATT wireless and data plan to operate.

 

[kdarling]

For the price, you'd be better off getting a personal media player from Archos or similar, with a bigger touch screen, wifi browser and 30GB storage.

 

[BornAgainMac]

You can buy the phone with the contract and then cancel the contract and pay the fee. Then you can use it as an iPod. I don't know if the Internet features will work with existing WiFi. It would nice if you can use it for 2 of the 3 functions.