I now get my choice of cell companies
I would have bought an IPhone soon after they came out except for one thing. I did not like and did not want to be locked into a contract with the company they had contracted with to be the carrier. It was not many months after the IPhone had hit the market that I saw my first Refurbished Unlocked Cell Phone with their name on it. I thought at first that it might just be a cheap knock off but found out it was the real thing. The only difference was the chip had been replaced and now it could work on a different phone company.