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Should I buy 6/6 Plus now?
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For what its worth, I'm in the same boat.... Well a slowly sinking boat as my Xperia is falling to pieces 
as many will tell you, get it now if you cant wait and sell it towards the end of August/early September...
I would recommend waiting just three more months. After all, the bigger screen is pretty much the only difference between those phones.
If the new phones have the 2 gigs of RAM it's worth waiting for. For quite awhile now I've been running into issues on my iPad mini retina and my iPhone 6 Plus when trying to keep more than one web page open. More RAM may or may not help but it sure as heck won't hurt. The 5s still compares well enough to the 6 and 6 Plus that waiting an extra summer isn't such a bad idea. You can either pick up deals on the current 6's or get a 6/6Plus that is everything the model should have been (IMO).
That is why I went back to my 5s. The bigger screen wasn't enough for me in terms of the 6. Plus, I don't use Apple Pay at all.
To the OP, I would wait if you can.
Technically it is a $750 phone. You are just getting a subsidized price from your carrier for agreeing to stay with them for the next 2 years.
Pretty much, you get a cheap phone but you get trapped for two years and essentially end up bending over in front of your carrier, or you end up spending an ass-load of money upfront but you get to do whatever you like. Paying full price for the phone is typically cheaper by a couple hundred dollars or so in the long term due to extra fees usually associated with being on contract.
This is why I buy my phones outright. I'm on Verizon with two lines, the 25$ discount for each line is very nice.
Depends on your plan and what you pay for the phone upfront. If you can get it for free or cheap, it might be worth it. And if you leave you pay the ETF which put together with what you paid upfront can still be potentially cheaper than the full price of the phone. Essentially it's not always a bad option depending on one's situation.
Yeah on the current plans it certainly helps. Using Edge does the job fairly well too.
It's basically that simple. The next update may or may not be a big deal, but you win either way: get the next phone when it is introduced or get better pricing on the 6/6+ after the 6S/6S+ are introduced.
Personally, I want to give up my iPhone 6+ and get its smaller brother. While I want to rectify this situation now, I know its better if I wait and that's what I'll be doing.
I may sell my current phone shortly (using an older windows phone temporarily) and then wait for the September media event.
I may sell my current phone shortly (using an older windows phone temporarily) and then wait for the September media event.
Yeah, I think it only makes sense to have contracts if you have less than 4 lines on the account? 4 or more though, I think it is cheaper in the long run. Could be the other way around. And that is why I added an italicized "typically" before I said it was cheaper.
If you're in need of a phone with a bigger screen at this very moment then get one. But if that desire can wait then you wait until the third quarter because I'm pretty sure the next iPhone is coming. I usually do not buy phones generation to the next because I feel that the upgrade ain't that dramatic so I skip a generation. However the iPhone 5s to 6/6+ was really dramatic so I immediately got one once it was released. I think this time an upgrade to 6/6+ is a bit late so if I were you I'd rather wait.
buy it what u want,whenever u want, this year, the design wont change.. so whatever, buy a 6 or 6 plus if u want