ok but i dont get it should i wait or buy now because gps isnt a very big deal to me im like 15 what else features is the new iphone going to have??
The reality is, if you wait a month the used prices for the current gen cell phone will only drop due to those whom wish to sell what they currently have for the new iPhone. As someone else pointed out, you may even find a subsidized phone with more memory, better features, etc, for less money than that used phone.
So if you can wait a month, then wait. If you really can't wait a month, and you are really asking if you are going to get burned on this, I don't think you will be burned. I always consider purchases in terms of losses. If you follow my model, you'll begin to see things for what they really are. It's not $250 for the phone you want to day. It's $250 now, but you have a resale value you can sell the phone for later. Let's assume the worst happens, and a subsidized phone releases for $199. Would you bet that you could sell the iPhone you paid $250 for $150? If yes, than the phone isn't $250. It's $100. That's the potential losses to you if you buy that phone now, change your mind later, and wish to buy a $199 subsidized phone. Do you want to gamble the $100 against what you might want given a set of circumstances that might occur in the future?
You see, I pay $93 a month as it is just to keep the phone. So from my point of view, $100 is nothing. It's 1/12 of the cost of the phone's on-going cost. I don't really care. But when I was 15 years old, $100 was a lot of money. I was 15 years old twenty-five years ago. Kids didn't have $250 for a phone back then. So I don't really understand the perspective you have at all. When I was 15 I bought a commodore 64 for $200 and I had it for 5 years. It was a very big deal to me to get that Commie 64.
Is this phone a very big deal for you? Is it something you want to last a long time? Can you even afford the bill for it? How much money does a typical 15 year old have these days? I don't have any perspective. From my point of view, as a working stiff of 40. $100 gamble is chump change. I couldn't care less. I bought mine 3 months ago after everyone as saying wait for the new 3G. I just shrugged it off and asked, why wait? I could be enjoying a great phone now, rather than in 5 months. Now you are 1 month away, so the circumstances are different. But again, just answering this question for myself, I'd go for it.
I bought a MacBook for the same reason. I think a new MacBook Pro is coming in the next 6 months to a year. I bought this MacBook to tide me over. And now I am finding that this $1,099 MacBook is not bad at all. I doubt I even get the MacBook Pro now because I find this one suits me just fine. The best is not always what you need. We want the best, that's human nature. But the current generation iPhone is a good phone, period. A lot of people were happy to wait in a line for 10 hours and pay $599 for that phone you can get for $250. The phone isn't all of the sudden a bad phone. People have simply fallen victim to their desires and expectation that this new iPhone is head and shoulders better than the old one.
I have own many many Macs. If you buy a new one for each new generation, and then wait 5 years and look at all those Macs you bought. One for each 18 months. You'd see the one in the middle wasn't so much better than the one prior. These are incremental improvements. They are not life-altering changes that shouldn't be missed. We're going to see something incremental. A little better. But not something that will make us all look back at this as some turning point in phone technology.
Alex Alexzander