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Ineligible AT&T Customers Need to Pay Full Price For iPhone 3G
- mechanical_fish 18y agoWhen my Sprint phone died, about five months ago, I switched to AT&T rather than buy another Sprint phone, with plans to eventually swap my AT&T phone for an iPhone. (I didn't worry about the "upgrade eligibility" requirements, because the last iPhone wasn't subsidized anyway.) If this article bears any relationship to reality, it looks like the joke is on me. I guess I could try to look on the bright side: I probably still won't be out as much money as I would have been if I'd bought an unsubsidized iPhone for $400 three months ago and then tried to sell it on eBay when the 3G came out. Still, if the much-ballyhooed $199/299 phone deal turns out to be a bait-and-switch for certain people (e.g. me) I'm going to be pretty annoyed. This does threaten to change my answer to the classic question: "Should I go 3G or buy a 2G phone on eBay?"