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AT&T quietly moving 2011 upgrades already?

Loves2spoon said:
I'm sure AT&T will bump everyone up again this year in June like they did last year. Why wouldn't they want to keep us locked up longer? I'd buy again for $299 and have them raise the ETF fee's, I'm never leaving! ;)
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They did that to lock people in before Verizon got the iPhone. Not because they were generous or anything like that.
 
Mine says 11/16/11...

I pre-ordered my iphone 4, received it at an AT&T store on launch day (June 24th), and I'm not eligible until 11/16/2011.. Not bad I guess.. :)
 
caligomez said:
I pre-ordered my iphone 4, received it at an AT&T store on launch day (June 24th), and I'm not eligible until 11/16/2011.. Not bad I guess.. :)
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PreOrdered online, launch day pickup, $170/mo bill w/ 3 iPhones on acct, 2/25/2012
 
My text says I owe them cheese. Oops. Maybe that will change when we square up. Anyway i dont think the wife would go for an early upgrade unless i broke mine or something. So if it lasts Ill be shooting for iPhone6.
 
natebookpro said:
My understanding is that it really doesnt matter how many lines are on an account, its how much your spending per line. In the eyes of AT&T someone spending $100/month on themselves is more valuable than you spending $50/month x 5. Im not going to argue whether this is right or wrong, its just how it is. And just for the record, I am in the same boat as you when it comes to not making that $100 threshold.
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Yeah I am even a secondary line on the wifes account so technically my bill is cheap. They have usually made me wait. We have had to beg for a few months early before. They usually cave. The bastards. Maybe i should give them my first born like the lot of you do. He is a brat anyway.
 
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I pay 76 bucks a month to Att and I just got a free 3G microcell.
 
Got mine the day before it was officially released. (Pre-ordered online, got it in the mail). I'm not eligible until 2/18/2012.
 
hmmm, upgrade dates seem to be all over the place with no rhyme or reason...
 
Sedrick said:
hmmm, upgrade dates seem to be all over the place with no rhyme or reason...
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There is a rhyme and a reason as there has always been. You get the earlier date if you;

1) pay your bill on time
2) have a valuable account. over a $100 monthly for a single account

I have been able to get full discounts every year, this year as well as my eligibility is June 19, 2011. Then again I have 5 lines on a family plan, and a bill in the $200's every month and always pay my bill on time. Every year AT&T hooks me.
 
Went to my nearest AT&T store yesterday to ask if I can move up my eligibility date and looks like I am stuck for Feb 25, 2012. They told me to call AT&T service number, but the guy told me he doubts they will move it up for me. I'm also not the primary.

After playing with the Samsung Focus for the third time again yesterday, I realize that while I like how thin it is, its weight and plastic does make it feel cheap and it smudges with fingerprints fast. I'm extremely content with iPhone 4.

No longer a rush to get an upgrade. This year doesn't feel like an upgrade type of year and I want my next phone to at least be LTE-ready. I'm pretty certain my next phone won't be iPhone. Love my iPhone, but after being with iOS since July 2008, time to move onto different pastures. WP7 may feel like a downgrade, but it can fulfill even my most simplest needs. Next few years is about "exploration." iPhone is sorta running its course similar to the RAZR and iPod classic. The saturation point has hit and getting way too predictable that it longer surprises that much. The closer to perfection, the less of a jump in the next evolution. This might come as a surprise to some, but not all the coolest and freshest ideas will be coming from Apple. The next upgrade-worthy iPhone is the LTE-ready CDMA/GSM. A model like that can drive prices down for phones or data plans since carriers would have a hard time differentiating and it becomes a price war. Apple can always just redesign it and add colors, and iPhones will still sell as long as we hear the words like beautiful, revolutionary, and magical during the keynote.

Spring 2012 upgrade for me right after CES and MWC. I am hoping WP7 is mature by then and it has many jailbroken apps for me to customize it and make it slick. I doubt RIM will have QNX on BB phones ready by Spring of next year, and even if it did, it will still need some slight polish and app support. Multi-tasking can be such a battery drain. I will get Android by 2014 when Iron Man/Stark (Tegra 6) arrives and is put on one kick ass PlayStation Certified phone. Will have the Sony NGP/PSP2 to fulfill my portable core gaming needs. By then, I'm hoping Android will be far more refined and slicker than what we are seeing from Honeycomb. A Tony Stark that is 75X more powerful than Tegra 2 should do it. The webOS mastermind, Matias Duarte, has already polished it up alot by then.
 
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6/30/11 for me & I got it the 1st day they started selling at AT&T stores.
 
Goldinboy17 said:
I wonder if AT&T would move up my uograde date by a week or so, giving me the opportunity to preorder.
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Hang tight. They did this same thing last year. Dates are randomized so as to not tip Apples hat on when the new device is released. Chances are there will be a media event for this first week of June and at that point, everyone with and eligibility date close to the release date will have their date changed to the same date; usually a date just before preorder.
 
bit_bucket said:
There is a rhyme and a reason as there has always been. You get the earlier date if you;

1) pay your bill on time
2) have a valuable account. over a $100 monthly for a single account

I have been able to get full discounts every year, this year as well as my eligibility is June 19, 2011. Then again I have 5 lines on a family plan, and a bill in the $200's every month and always pay my bill on time. Every year AT&T hooks me.
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Not true. My bill has been consistently over $100.00 (after FAN discount, before taxes) over the past 2 years and I have never been late on any of my bills since 2002 when I opened my account with the old AT&T.

When the iPhone 4 came out, my primary and one secondary line were not eligible for upgrades until November 2010, which is when we upgraded. Now, we're not eligible for our next upgrades until July 2012. We decided to skip the upgrade on our 3rd line and now that is eligible for the upgrade already, which is what I will be using when the next iPhone comes out.

Upgrade eligibility depends on how much AT&T makes out of each individual line and not the whole account (with 3 or 5 lines).
 
I upgraded to the iPhone4 on launch day AND my contract expires in June 2011.

I guess there was an advantage to waiting in lines during all of the computer failures. My upgrade never got entered correctly. Oops :D

I just hope the 5 is LTE compatible on Verizon, otherwise I'm waiting :eek:
 
bit_bucket said:
There is a rhyme and a reason as there has always been. You get the earlier date if you;

1) pay your bill on time
2) have a valuable account. over a $100 monthly for a single account

I have been able to get full discounts every year, this year as well as my eligibility is June 19, 2011. Then again I have 5 lines on a family plan, and a bill in the $200's every month and always pay my bill on time. Every year AT&T hooks me.
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I've got both 1 and 2 covered and always have. Bought a new 3GS 2 months before the 4 landed and it's still gonna cost me $499 until 2012.
 
Got my iP4 day one.

Upgrade on 6/25/11.

Going to Greece in July. Hopefully unlock comes out by then and I can sell for a pretty penny.
 
tikitommy said:
Got my iP4 day one.

Upgrade on 6/25/11.

Going to Greece in July. Hopefully unlock comes out by then and I can sell for a pretty penny.
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Have you used an unlocked iphone in Greece? If so, how did you go about getting a sim and a local plan while you were there?
 
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