Pro Tip: Carrier financing + down payment on iPhone 8 = early upgrade

[Adelphos33]

After going back and forth on this, I just preordered an iPhone 8+ from Apple. Silver, 64G. I paid through AT&T Next and put a 200 down payment on it, allowing for an upgrade to a new phone in 8 months, so May/June. At that time, I may decide to get an iPhone X or wait for the next version (depending on what the rumor mill says about the next phone). In the meantime, I am trading in my 6S at the Apple Store for AirPods and another set of fast charging cables / plugs (I already have one for my iPad Pro). This seems to give me the best of all worlds - a significant upgrade to my 6S in an 8+, the ability to trade in the 8+ for an X mid 2018, and a way to fund the purchase of extras for the 8+ and X today. No need to worry about preordering the X, just buy the phone next year.

 

[dwd3885]

i mean you are spending the exact same amount of money you would be anyway because instead of down payment you would just pay the extra few months payments at the time you want to upgrade to be able to get a new phone at that time..

 

[Adelphos33]

i mean you are spending the exact same amount of money you would be anyway because instead of down payment you would just pay the extra few months payments at the time you want to upgrade to be able to get a new phone at that time..

I guess this is true - my original goal was to credit my trade in phone towards a down payment, but neither Apple nor AT&T would let me do that. So I just prepaid my bill up to the value of my trade in as sort of an internal accounting trick