For me it's not the upfront cost of the phone that prevents me from getting it, its the minimum $70/mo in ongoing charges you are forced to buy along with it - ouch!
Well. You can get an 8GB iPhone for €99 up-front here (Austria), but you end up paying almost €1200 over the course of 2 years. (€45/mo; alternatively €149 + €35/mo for 24 mo - just under €1000 total)
Given that you can get hold of unlocked, contract-free iPhones for around €580 (€580! for a phone! and the 16GB model is ~€100 more - though the unlocked ones don't seem to be sanctioned by Apple, so no idea where they dig them up) that works out to being tied to a contract that's somewhere between mediocre and rip-off for €20-25/mo for 2 years and then being stuck with the same network after that. (SIM lock) Oh, have I mentioned that the iPhone is offered by Orange and T-Mobile, the two networks with by far the worst 3G coverage in this country?
The developer version of the HTC G1 at $400 (~€285) looks like a bargain in comparison. I wish I could have a look at one - you can't buy the consumer version in shops here yet, and there's only so much you can tell from a bunch of photos. (size, weight, handling)
I bought one of the refurbished 16G phones for $199 the other night. From what I read in the terms, the warranty on refurbished iPhones is 1 year - X, where X is some value less than or equal to 30 days.
The AT&T website says that the warranty is at least 90 days (i.e. 90 days for most phones), but that the iPhone warranty is dependent on the serial number of the phone that you actually receive.
