If you were a Verizon customer patiently waiting for the iPhone, would you get one in February or wait an additional four months until the next iPhone is announced?
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If you were on Verizon, would you get an iPhone now or wait until June?
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I'll be paying full retail for it on Feb. 3 and then if one comes out in June, for the one also.
Crazy, I know. But put it this way, a 32GB iPod touch is 299 and I'm getting a phone + and iPod touch so I dont mind paying.
Crazy, I know. But put it this way, a 32GB iPod touch is 299 and I'm getting a phone + and iPod touch so I dont mind paying.
correct if I'm wrong but the unsubsidized price of an iPhone is closer to 500 to 600 isn't? Seems a little excessive when you can either get an iPhone now a lot cheaper or just wait.
Also if you're thinking of paying the unsubsidized price, why not get the IP4 for the subsidized price and when the iPhone 5 comes out you can decide whether that's a worthwhile upgrade and pay the full price then
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If I were on Verizon and upgrade eligible I would probably get the iPhone now. I wouldn't expect an upgraded iPhone model for Verizon for a year. By upgrading now you may be eligible to upgrade sooner in the future.
I wouldn't expect too much of an upgrade on the AT&T model this year. Maybe it will be "4G" (like T-Mobile's 4G) and have triple the download rate of the current iPhone.
I'm debating what to do, I think I'm going to end up ordering it in February. The only upgrade that I would really like to see is LTE, but that is something that I could live without as I'll be in a WiFi zone 80% of the time, and I can deal with the somewhat slower speeds the other times. I also don't really see Apple jumping on the 4G bandwagon this summer, they waited years to add multi-tasking just to do it right and I'd think they'd wait to add 4G for when it won't have any effect on battery life, design, anything.
Correct, $599/$699 depending on memory size. And I would think it would be much wiser of a plan to buy the current version now (at the upgrade price) and pay the unsubsidized price in June if the upgrade is really worth it.
I switched to Verizon last November for the Original Droid, so I'm under contract til the second half of this year. I really dislike my droid and have been waiting for this day to happen so I'm planning on paying the full price for an iPhone in February. And if a new version is released this summer that I have to have, I'll be able to sell my iPhone4 and sign a new contract to get it cheap. If it's not awesome, I may just wait til the next iphone.
Also another reason I'm so willing to pay the full price for the iPhone is that last year my iTouch was stolen and so since then I've had to use my Droid and my sole mp3 player. And let me tell you, the music experience, and software on the droid and on all the Android devices I have tried just is very unimpressive and very buggy.
Also another reason I'm so willing to pay the full price for the iPhone is that last year my iTouch was stolen and so since then I've had to use my Droid and my sole mp3 player. And let me tell you, the music experience, and software on the droid and on all the Android devices I have tried just is very unimpressive and very buggy.
I'm on Verizon now and I also have a phone whose contract has been up for about 6 months now. I'm still going to wait... for 2 reasons.
1. Lets see the pros and cons of iPhone on verizon. Waiting till June or July 2011 will give me a pretty good idea of how it is going. Also might as well wait for iPhone 5 if they are locking me in for 2 years.
2. Kid has a Blackberry and her plan is up June 2011. At this time we plan to split her off onto her own bill (she's 23 now and on her own working in another state).
1. Lets see the pros and cons of iPhone on verizon. Waiting till June or July 2011 will give me a pretty good idea of how it is going. Also might as well wait for iPhone 5 if they are locking me in for 2 years.
2. Kid has a Blackberry and her plan is up June 2011. At this time we plan to split her off onto her own bill (she's 23 now and on her own working in another state).
That's my point. a 32GB iPod touch is 299 so I have no problem paying 699 (most would though).
Unfortunately not eligible any longer :/ I threw the waiting towel in last September. I now wish I hadn't.
I bought the DX thinking if the iPhone did come it'd come in June 2011. I was wrong because I would not know any better than anyone else. I never thought a February release though. I will likely jump over to the iPhone sometime mid-late 2011. I only signed a 1 year contract for the sole purpose of getting the iPhone back. I liked my iPhone very much, liked making calls more. Interestingly enough though, some of the things I can do on my DX makes me question whether I care about the iPhone as much as I think I do.
I had a Droid X for a couple months (Oct-Nov) and have a myfi now. I will probably buy an unsubsidized iPhone 4 and use it on my plan instead of the Myfi, bonus for it having hotspot capabilities!
Seconded. In the end iPhone 4 wins for me, but it is so much closer a choice than I would have thought.
Seconded. In the end iPhone 4 wins for me, but it is so much closer a choice than I would have thought.
I cannot believe that if Apple releases an iPhone 5 in June that it would be a CDMA version. There is just no way that Apple and Verizon would introduce a new model and then replace it in a matter of a few months. What is more likely as has been mentioned is that a GSM version is released and sometime later, it makes it way to Verizon as an LTE phone - sometime 2012.
I'll be getting one on a one year contract (assuming they still allow that).
I'll be getting one on a one year contract (assuming they still allow that).
+1.. since I have money to blow.. I will get mine on Feb 3. (new contract upgrade, since my contract has been month to month for 3 months now) and purchase full retail on the next one.
some of you are idiots. When the Iphone 5 comes out on ATT it will be on Verizon the same day. Verizon will not want Apple to release on ATT first that can take away customers. The exclusivity is over with. Hell If I was on verizon I get one of those new dual core phones not an Iphone 4.
Not really, AT&T will still have the upper hand. AT&T will still be exclusive for releases until 2013.
$600+$600 = $299+phone?
I may have mis-read what you're saying, but where I'm from, $1,200.00 really isn't worth spending on 2 phones inside of 6 months.