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You may be correct as I think I saw an informal survey of iPhone 4S buyers that stated only a small percentage were upgrading. However, iPhone 3GS users for th
by cshesse 15y ago
You may be correct as I think I saw an informal survey of iPhone 4S buyers that stated only a small percentage were upgrading.
However, iPhone 3GS users for the most part have had the phone 24 to 12 months, and if you are eligible for an upgrade with AT&T, it seems you pay the iphone subsidy each month (by my estimates, around $50 per month) regardless of whether you upgrade or not. So it makes sense to upgrade and sell the new phone on ebay if you want to keep your 3GS.
- BertHartm 15y agoCan I ask about your estimate of $50 a month? I've always estimated about $20 (T-mobile's old discount) which made sense given that a $400 discount over 24 months would be about 17 a month.
- cshesse 15y agoThe ATT iPhone costs I think 80$ a month. If you get a Virgin Mobile phone with the same plan, it costs 35$ per month. And the Virgin Mobile plan is a little better. I was also basing this off of the Sprint iPhone costing roughly the same as the ATT iPhone, and Virgin Mobile supposedly using the Sprint network.