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Originally Posted by joblack
Do you have to sign the contract after you bought the iPhone (with some kind of activation)? Or do you just get the device and you have to activate it?
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You do not have to sign a contract to buy an iPhone from an Apple store (mortar or online).
BUT...The iPhone is a brick without activation (i.e. a contract).
When you buy an iPhone from Apple, you only buy and purchase the phone itself.
When you take the iPhone out of the box and turn it on, the ONLY thing you can do with it is call 911 (make an emergency call). It has no iPod features or anything else until you activate it.
When you connect the iPhone to your computer, iTunes launches and it walks you through selecting a plan:
1. It asks who you are (if you already have an iTunes account, it already knows)
2. it gives you options to transfer an existing AT&T account--provided its not a business account, only "personal" accounts can be used on an iPhone--, transfer a number from another phone company, or create a brand new account and number
3. it asks you how many minutes you want, and how many text messages (it has an easy to read chart with features and prices)
4. then, after about two minutes, the phone is activated, and the number is assigned to your iPhone.
This is probably my fifth cell account, and the by-far easiest "activation" ever!
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Originally Posted by joblack
If you don´t have to sign it at the same time you´re buying it you could just activate it for yourself =) ... without that damned contract ===).
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Well, like I said above, you don't have to buy the contract at the Apple Store, and you do activate it yourself, but the "activation" is the "contract," so I am not sure what you are asking here.