So a shiny new 2 year contract for a phone that doesn't work?

[stlredbird]

Alright, I love my iPhone 4 and I'm not giving it back. I'm also not putting a stupid bumper on it or any other case. I paid for a certain aesthetic quality that those ruin.

However, Apple has now admitted that there IS a hardware problem, and because of this problem some people will decide to just return their phones b/c a bumper is not an acceptable fix (as it wouldn't be for me).

So will AT&T let people out of their contracts? They really should. People purchased the plans b/c of the new phones, which by Apple's own admission are defective. The obvious argument is that no one HAD to purchase the contract to get the new phone, they could have just paid double the price for the phone. So the answer is more than likely no they won't, but still it's slightly shady.

Thoughts? Comments?

I myself am keeping my plan and my naked phone.

 

[bafrad]

Alright, I love my iPhone 4 and I'm not giving it back. I'm also not putting a stupid bumper on it or any other case. I paid for a certain aesthetic quality that those ruin.

However, Apple has now admitted that there IS a hardware problem, and because of this problem some people will decide to just return their phones b/c a bumper is not an acceptable fix (as it wouldn't be for me).

So will AT&T let people out of their contracts? They really should. People purchased the plans b/c of the new phones, which by Apple's own admission are defective. The obvious argument is that no one HAD to purchase the contract to get the new phone, they could have just paid double the price for the phone. So the answer is more than likely no they won't, but still it's slightly shady.

Thoughts? Comments?

I myself am keeping my plan and my naked phone.

It's a hardware problem on EVERY PHONE IN EXISTENCE. It's like you people don't listen or read everything. Go read other articles explaining the issue. The Phone works. Like with every phone with an antenna, you can interfere with it. Either don't interfere with it, get a free case, or return the thing if you want to be handicapped.

 

[Apollo 13]

It's a hardware problem on EVERY PHONE IN EXISTENCE. It's like you people don't listen or read everything. Go read other articles explaining the issue. The Phone works. Like with every phone with an antenna, you can interfere with it. Either don't interfere with it, get a free case, or return the thing if you want to be handicapped.

Sorry but my bars don't drop like the iPhone 4 on my Evo or 3GS.

 

[scaredpoet]

So will AT&T let people out of their contracts?

Yes they will. On ANY phone actually, for any reason, so long as you return the phone within the 30 days and get a refund. It's been this way since at least 2005, back when I first tried Cingular on a black Motorola RAZR and found it wasn't to my liking.


If you're an existing AT&T customer and don't cancel, it will take a few days for your contract and eligibility status to reset in the system. Or, you can exchange for some other phone and your contract then applies on that phone instead.

which by Apple's own admission are defective.

That's not what they said at all. But even so, and no matter whether you think this or any other phone is defective or not, your AT&T contract is nullified upon refund.

 

[stlredbird]

It's a hardware problem on EVERY PHONE IN EXISTENCE. It's like you people don't listen or read everything. Go read other articles explaining the issue. The Phone works. Like with every phone with an antenna, you can interfere with it. Either don't interfere with it, get a free case, or return the thing if you want to be handicapped.

You drink a whole different Kool-Aid than I do.

 

[stlredbird]

Yes they will. Even on non-defective phones, so long as you return the phone and get a refund. It's been this way since at least 2005, back when I first tried Cingular on a black Motorola RAZR and found it wasn't to my liking.


If you're an existing AT&T customer and don't cancel, it will take a few days for your contract and eligibility status to reset in the system. Or, you can exchange for some other phone and your contract then applies on that phone instead.

Ah well there ya go. I didn't know that. Thank you

 

[bunnicula]

Yes they will. An ANY phone actually, so long as you return the phone and get a refund. It's been this way since at least 2005, back when I first tried Cingular on a black Motorola RAZR and found it wasn't to my liking.


If you're an existing AT&T customer and don't cancel, it will take a few days for your contract and eligibility status to reset in the system. Or, you can exchange for some other phone and your contract then applies on that phone instead.

This.

I think, though, what people really want is to KEEP the subsidized iPhone 4 AND get out of their contracts. Which... no.

Go buy another type of phone, if you don't like the iPhone. We're all free to choose. It's a beautiful thing. (Um... not addressed to you, scaredpoet. Addressed to the angry masses.)

 

[Stuart21]

My shiny iphone works great. Take it back if your not happy. Yea if you death grip your bars will drop so avoid it. People just want to complain about anything they can.

 

[Mark Booth]

Bottom line for me: My iPhone 4 holds a call in places where my original iPhone, my 3G and my 3GS were notorious for dropping the call. The iPhone 4 IS a better phone.

Everyone that isn't satisfied, TAKE IT BACK!! PLEASE!

Mark

 

[watercrawl]

You drink a whole different Kool-Aid than I do.

LMAO.....pop through the nose on that one. Thanks....needed that.

 

[mrblack927]

Steve Jobs answered this in the Q&A. Yes, they will.