Derek Punsalan already has his $150 iPhone rebate. Remember the receipt he got with “2 YR Agreement SAVINGS $150.00″ printed at the bottom?

Well, that receipt probably referred to the iPhone rebate that AT&T now has up its sleeve. Thanks, Derek, for pointing that out.

Remember the controversial Cingular iPhone ad that I claimed was used in a private Pinecone Research consumer survey to test price points for the iPhone? Well the results of that survey may help explain today’s news that AT&T might offer $50 to $150 iPhone rebates.

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I reported on Monday about a survey of high school students who said they’d be willing to spend $500 on the iPhone.

Well, thanks to Andrew Kantor, I realize the survey results are not as big a deal as I thought.

Monday’s survey showed 25% of high school students were willing to pay iPhone’s premium price. What I left out was that that figure has dropped dramatically since last year, when 74 percent of students said they would buy a cell phone/iPod combo.

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In a Piper Jaffray survey of about 500 high school students in 11 schools around the U.S., 85 percent of teens said they were already aware of the iPhone.

Of those, 25 percent said they’d be willing to spend at the $500 entry point for Apple’s upcoming mobile phone.

Further, the study found that 82 percent of students who own a portable media player own an iPod. Sony comes in second with a distant 4 percent of students.

“Among high school students, it is clear that Apple is successfully carrying its brand from the media player market into the mobile phone space,” said senior analyst Gene Munster.

Derek Punsalan went into a Cingular store to trade in his Sprint BlackBerry 8703e for a Cingular BlackBerry Pearl and came out with a receipt with this printed on the bottom:

Not sure what it means, but Derek thinks it could be a glitch hinting that the iPhone price “may be discounted for longer service agreements.” We’ll find out in June.