Want to buy iPhone 4...buy now or wait for next iPhone launch ?

Definitely wait, the influx of 4/4S sales should drive the price down a bit. Nothing drastic, maybe £30ish.

 

Anyone know how much an iPhone 4 costs nowadays?

 

8GB only, black or white. $99 on AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon.

 

Wait. It's only a few weeks and the price has nowhere to go but down.

 

Hi,


Depends on your disposable income or upgrade status.

Personally I purchase my iphone's outright.

I now have £500 awaiting the next release in hope it ticks the right boxes for my wants , needs and expectations.

If your gonna stick on a present iphone choice then i would suggest the iPhone 4s, for speed and longevity, ref updates etc.

 

Obvious answer....Wait

 

Just a word of advice. The 4 may suit your needs now. But it's already being left out of features like turn by turn maps in iOS 6. If you are going to use it for a while you may be better off at least getting the 4s.

 

Is that a subsidized price? I mean to buy a used one out-right.

 

Those are subsidized prices.

 

I think its $50 at bestbuy

 

The prices for non-subsidized phones are on the same page.

 

I'd wait (which I normally don't say, usually you should buy what you need), the price point for the 4S will drop (presumably) to what the 4 is now, so you could buy a super cheap 4 or buy a 4S for what you were planning on spending anyway.

 

These are two very important points that you should definitely think about before springing for an iPhone 4.

Not to mention the speed difference between an iPhone 4 and a 4S. I have an iPhone 4 because I didn't want to upgrade to the iPhone 4S last year when the rest of my family did because I wanted to wait for the iPhone 5 (or whatever it's called). My iPhone 4 constantly lags, Safari crashes when I have too many tabs open, apps can take a while to load, the camera takes considerably longer than the iPhone 4S's camera to load while also taking worse pictures and video than the iPhone 4S, it freezes up, etc. Compared to my iPhone 4, my sisters 4S FLIES. It never lags, all the animations are buttery smooth, apps load quickly, the camera loads very fast and takes excellent picture and video (not to say the iPhone 4 doesn't, because it does), etc. All of these little annoyances on the iPhone 4 can make it feel slow, laggy, and can cause some frustration (especially when apps that take a long time to load finally load and then crash).

And when the price of the iPhone 4S drops down to $100 when the next iPhone is announced, it'll be an even better deal than the iPhone 4. Like the poster above me said, the iPhone 4 is already starting to receive less and less features of newer versions of iOS; for example, in iOS 6, the iPhone 4 doesn't get turn-by-turn maps or Facetime over 3G like the iPhone 4S and the next iPhone will. This will continue to be the case when iOS 7, iOS 8, etc. are released.

Just some food for thought. Good luck!

 

Sorry the reason I'm asking is because I'm considering selling my unlocked phone but seeing as I've never done it before, I'm not too sure of the rates...

 

An 8GB iPhone 4 is $549 unsubsidized.

 

It seems possible that Apple will finally drop the 3GS from the US market when the next iPhone comes out. Why sell 4 versions at once?

Other than, possibly, the prepaid market or overseas.

So the 4 should drop in price to take it's place.

I'm going to give my iPhone 4 to my brother in law soon, and buy the new phone. It has been over 25 months, so I'm eligible for subsidy.