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Apple Unveils iPhone 7 With Water Resistance, A10 Fusion, New 'Jet Black' Color, Updated Cameras, No Headphone Jack, and More
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There *were* subsidized phones ($199) with 2YR contracts and everyone paid the same service price. Then, they snuck in cheaper plans if you BYOD or outright purchase the phone, but left the contract prices the same (which then looked like higher prices).
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I guess with that stupid Brexit we should be glad the price has only gone up by 20 quids.
I paid £789 last year for the 128GB 6S Plus.
I guess with that stupid Brexit we should be glad the price has only gone up by 20 quids.
I do it all the time - I just plug in my lightning cable. Charges phone and plays.
Not as good here in the UK as in the US. It's a 20 month credit agreement with Barclays here, not a 24 month agreement like in the States. Means the monthly payments are higher, and there's £49 to pay upfront too. £45/month for 128GB 7 Plus
I find the carrier plan wins always wins. It means even on the top pay monthly tariff available the equivalent sim only price would be £20/£30mth but you'll get everything & the kitchen sink chucked in, even if I take a 24mth plan, trade the 'old phone' in after 12mths & buy a new one from
, it still works out better 'value'.Rip my phone subsidy and new iPhones every year. No way I'm paying $650+ for a phone.
I realize it was baked into the plan, but if you didn't use it, it was free money you were throwing away.
AAPL is going to be hurting next quarter. No way people are go to pay that much.
I realize it was baked into the plan, but if you didn't use it, it was free money you were throwing away.
AAPL is going to be hurting next quarter. No way people are go to pay that much.
It depends. Doing the math myself, with the iPhone not necessarily. But it wont go up much either. It depends on the capacity you pick. Mine is a 6 with 64GB. So if I pick the equivalently priced 128GB, my bill stays within a couple bucks of what it is now. So if you go smaller capacity you may see a slight reduction, the larger capacity a higher cost.
The idea behind the new installment based plans is that it now mose closely follows the EXACT cost of the phone which means more to android users than iPhone. Android has a wide variety of handsets. So much so that the monthly cost of the phone over two years may b significantly less than the blanket device charge they charged everyone no matter what device. The issue with that universal fee was that some phones were being under charged and thus carriers were actually losing money on phones because the subsidy was not really repaid for some phones. The way I look at this now. My bill stays pretty much the same and when I upgrade my phone I pay NOTHING for the phone upfront and I pocket the money when I sell my old one instead of needing to use that money to replay the down payment on the new one.
damn those Canadian prices... Will probably end up waiting for the 8/7S but I could almost buy a new computer at that price =(
7: $899, $1029, $1159
7 Plus; $1049, $1179, $1309
7: $899, $1029, $1159
7 Plus; $1049, $1179, $1309
As a 30 year full time pro, could you tell us how much you would have to pay for a standalone photo camera and/or video camera that is about the same quality as the camera in an iPhone 7 or 7+?
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This is misleading. The different rate would have had some other change affecting the price such as lower minutes or data.
False. My rate plan I signed up for 2 years ago included an iPhone at a subsidized rate. If I buy a new iPhone Friday and get one of the current plans, the rate has not improved and is in fact slightly higher for slightly more data.
They did subsidize the phone, but they were making that back up in the rate. It does not mean it wasn't subsidized.
Actually it wasn't a dongle. It was a fairly nice, armored y cable with three things on it: A Cigarette plug for the car, a 30-pin connector for the phone, and a 3.5mm plug that goes directly into your aux port. I thought it was pretty slick, and let me charge my phone while listening to music through the head unit and using my GPS apps.
because whatever the adapter is connected to *won't* stick out of your pocket? Is that a Beats headset in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
Because it's just time to move on and a large enough company needs to start it. It'll be another connectivity war since I think Lightning is apple-only, but kicking the analog bucket continuously down the road isn't the solution.
Um, no, they are not moving into a fully digital world. The digital signal has to be converted to analog before it can be audible through the headphones. Therefore, given two exact similar headphone speaker designs where one is using a 3.5 mm headphone jack and the other is using a Lightning connector, there will be no noticeable difference in sound between the two.
One of my local papers went with the brilliant "iPhone goes wireless".Oh CNN
You didn't have to pay full price then... and you don't have to now either.
Contracts and "subsidies" may be gone... but payment plans took their place.
You don't HAVE to spend $650-850 on a new iPhone.