AT&T Improves, Clarifies iPhone Upgrade Eligibility
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us —
... TidBITS editor Rich Mogull wrote about these policies and his analysis of how they work last week in "Call AT&T; for the Best iPhone Upgrade Price," 2009-06-15. The condensed version is that AT&T; said most subscribers who had a subsidized phone, whether an iPhone 3G or otherwise, under a 2-year plan would likely be eligible for the cheapest upgrade between 12 and 18 months into their contract period. ...
AT&T extends lowest iPhone 3G S upgrade pricing to more customers
Macworld —
... , which mainly applied to owners of the original iPhone. iPhone 3G customers, meanwhile, were left out in the cold to wait until their eligibility date came up. For many, that date was in July 2009, almost exactly a year after buying the iPhone 3G, but others couldn’t take advantage of the lower pricing until later this summer, this winter, or even early next year. Contract longevity plays a part in this calculation, but so do several other factors , including, as AT&T later spelled out, how much customers pay for their monthly plan. On Wednesday morning, AT&T announced that ...
iPhone 3GS Sells One Million Units in Its First Weekend
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... But how should we think about the apparently identical sales statistic for the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS? Some factors point to lowered expectations, such as the dour economy (the major bank failures that signaled the most serious phase of the economic crisis came after the release of the iPhone 3G in July 2008). Plus, at least in the United States, AT&T;'s fumbling of the iPhone 3GS upgrade pricing must have caused some people to hold off on upgrading (see "Call AT&T; for the Best iPhone Upgrade Price", 2009-06-15, and ...


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