T-Mobile have found a unique way to keep high-paying customers coming back for more.  Or a least, unique for legal operations: selling unlocked iPhone 3Gs!  Yes, the 3Gs that are exclusive to O2.  Yes, unlocked the way that Apple are extremely litigiously against.  It’s definitely a case of “Give them what they want.”

T-Mobile are managing this by being pretty quiet about it (though not quite quiet enough, what with this being on the internet and all) and jumping through a series of legal loopholes that’d make someone suing McDonald’s for making hot food blush.  They’re only offering the iPhones to upgrading customers, technically meaning they’re reselling phones that happen to be unSIMmed, and they’re doing it in small numbers – thereby maintaining high paying customers while (they hope) not shifting enough units to enrage Apple.  We’ll have to wait and see if they get away with it.

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