After a brief chat with AT&T, it seems as though they're doing the following:
- if you owned a 1st Gen and are upgrading to a 3Gs you qualify immediately
- if you owned a 3G and are upgrading to a 3Gs you will qualify 18 months after your 3G purchase (hence a lot of January 2010 dates)
- if you owned a 1st Gen AND a 3G, you will qualify 12 months after your 3G purchase (hence a lot of July ~13 dates)
This is very poorly communicated but looks to be the situation, which is a tiny bit better than I thought it was last night as they're not totally hosing their most loyal customers.
Can anyone else confirm?
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Can someone explain how a SIM card swap should work, if the 1st gen iPhone I gave my brother is eligible for upgraded pricing, but my own 3G is not until December?
My brother got a totally new SIM card to use with his iPhone, when I upgraded to the 3G and I gave him my old phone. He did NOT use my original SIM card.
I have a 3G, with a new SIM card of course.
If I order a 3GS from Apple, and use my brother's phone line as the reference, so it shows me the cheaper upgrade being available, and I receive it in the mail -- what do I do? Is it somehow locked to his phone number? I am imagining it will have its own, new SIM card, like the 3G did?
I am ready to order a 3GS and give my 3G to my brother, but I want to make sure I can use the 3GS with my phone number, if I order it using his phone number to get upgrade pricing.
Thanks!
How come all these news posts aboutthe 3GS getting so many thumbs down? Whats up with it?
ATT flat out sucks in my area and I am patiently waiting for Verizon to get the phone.
If I understood the video correctly, the preorder phones are available starting at 7am. Anyone else would need to wait until the store opens.
That is what AT&T employees do. They just don't understand that people want MMS and tethering so they tilt their heads. Sort of like when dogs do when you make a puzzling sound.
Then why have I been a customer with ATT now for 4 years, while always having one of the most expensive plans and not missed a single payment and yet I am still not eligible until Jan 2010?
After a brief chat with AT&T, it seems as though they're doing the following:
- if you owned a 1st Gen and are upgrading to a 3Gs you qualify immediately
- if you owned a 3G and are upgrading to a 3Gs you will qualify 18 months after your 3G purchase (hence a lot of January 2010 dates)
- if you owned a 1st Gen AND a 3G, you will qualify 12 months after your 3G purchase (hence a lot of July ~13 dates)
This is very poorly communicated but looks to be the situation, which is a tiny bit better than I thought it was last night as they're not totally hosing their most loyal customers.
Can anyone else confirm?
I don't think this is correct. Me and my buddy both bough 1st Gen on day 1 and then got the 3G on day 1 and both of our accounts say we're not eligible until December.
After a brief chat with AT&T, it seems as though they're doing the following:
- if you owned a 1st Gen and are upgrading to a 3Gs you qualify immediately
- if you owned a 3G and are upgrading to a 3Gs you will qualify 18 months after your 3G purchase (hence a lot of January 2010 dates)
- if you owned a 1st Gen AND a 3G, you will qualify 12 months after your 3G purchase (hence a lot of July ~13 dates)
This is very poorly communicated but looks to be the situation, which is a tiny bit better than I thought it was last night as they're not totally hosing their most loyal customers.
Can anyone else confirm?
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What do you expect the other carriers to do?
Really its not that hard of a concept... you bought a subsidized phone and agreed to keep it for 2 years. The same thing happened to me when I bought the Verizon Razr way back in the day, and they released a new one a year later. I didn't bitch and moan because I knew what I agreed to. You can't have both the benefit of an unsubsidized phone and the cost savings of a subsidized one at the same time.
I want to know why I have to wait until March, 2010 to upgrade my iPhone 3G, when I bought it last July on launch day, just like everyone else.
Nope, I have been with AT&T since 1997, purchased both gen 1 & 3g iPhones on launch day, have never been late on my payments, and have dutifully paid these shmucks $83 every month. My upgrade date for being such a "valuable customer" is March 2010!After a brief chat with AT&T, it seems as though they're doing the following:
- if you owned a 1st Gen and are upgrading to a 3Gs you qualify immediately
- if you owned a 3G and are upgrading to a 3Gs you will qualify 18 months after your 3G purchase (hence a lot of January 2010 dates)
- if you owned a 1st Gen AND a 3G, you will qualify 12 months after your 3G purchase (hence a lot of July ~13 dates)
This is very poorly communicated but looks to be the situation, which is a tiny bit better than I thought it was last night as they're not totally hosing their most loyal customers.
Can anyone else confirm?
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Then why do some people get eligibility in July, when they signed the very same two-year contract I did. This is the question no one seems to be able to answer.
iPhone looks great, it's the carrier that looks in trouble!
ATT's website says I'm eligible on July 13th...I got a 3G on launch day, but never owned an original iPhone. It's almost worth waiting just so you don't have to deal with ATT!
After a brief chat with AT&T, it seems as though they're doing the following:
- if you owned a 1st Gen and are upgrading to a 3Gs you qualify immediately
- if you owned a 3G and are upgrading to a 3Gs you will qualify 18 months after your 3G purchase (hence a lot of January 2010 dates)
- if you owned a 1st Gen AND a 3G, you will qualify 12 months after your 3G purchase (hence a lot of July ~13 dates)
This is very poorly communicated but looks to be the situation, which is a tiny bit better than I thought it was last night as they're not totally hosing their most loyal customers.
Can anyone else confirm?
a
No matter what line you will be in, bend over and make sure you are well lubricated.
How come all these news posts aboutthe 3GS getting so many thumbs down? Whats up with it?