The way the iPhone pricing works is,
199/299 dollars when eligible to upgrade
399/499 dollars when not eligible to upgrade
599/699 dollars when you don't want to sign up for a new contract.
Let's say the iPhone comes out on June 21 and it says on your account you are not eligible for the upgrade until November 24. You could either wait till November 24 and get it for 199/299 dollars or buy it for 399/499 dollars if you don't want to wait that long. The latter option still has you sign up for a new two year contract.
I just bought a 3GS (new customer) for $199 in March. I just checked my status.
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I know Verizon's the biggest carrier, but why can't Apple make an iphone for T-mobile? It's still a big carrier, and won't have any CDMA issues like Verizon.
Sure hope that's a working model and not the final design. It's ugly.
Upgrade date 02/20/2011Currently using iPhone 3GS I wonder why because I paid 400 instead of 200
Not happy at all.
Paid subsidized price for my 3g on release date 2008
paid $399 for 3gS on release date 2009
I fell just short of being subsidized because my bill was $94 +tax a month
so here I am hoping that 2 years after my last subsidized phone I would mabey be eligible for upgrade to the iPhone HD
Bu noooooo now at$t is telling me that the $399 was considered subsidized a I now have to wait until November 11th 2010.
So I has to pay 399 and other people paid 199 and they are already eligible and I'm not?
WTF are they trying to lose customers??
$399 WAS subsidized.Deal with it.
Per line? Yikes. Thanks for the info though.
I am so damn confused about the upgrade thing. My plan is a family plan with four phones. 3 iphone 3GS and 1 regular.
Both of these phones were bought at the same time at AT&T store.
- 1 iPhone 3GS bought in 9/7/09. Eligibility upgrade = 9/27/10
- 1 iPhone 3GS bought in 9/7/09. Eligibility upgrade = 5/17/11
The third iPhone was bought a week later.
- 1 iPhone 3GS bought in 9/15/09. Eligibility upgrade = 5/25/11
I am also getting 15% off the bill because I work with Black & Decker. Does this have anything to do with the upgrade?
I'm slightly amused at everybody ready to slap down hundreds of bucks on something they know nothing about yet. All you know is rumor, and that prototype could be nothing like what eventually comes out.
I would also ask why any 3GS owner with sanity would buy the next-gen phone. You're eligible for all the OS 4 features and probably won't be missing much else. I get the 2G and 3G owners upgrading, especially you brave 2G owners. I like my phone aside from the "limited" storage, but even 64GB won't be enough. I'm also waiting for this Verizon stuff to become reality and maybe prices will drop or something. AT&T's signal strength has been weaker for me over the past month, and I might have the option of switching if I wait until next summer when this contract runs out.
My date is 05/30. I can't wait to get away from AT&T and the iPhone.