The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thread!

[Ken]

So what happens when you are eligible for an upgrade but haven't "financed" a phone before? Do they just give you a credit towards or a discount off of the new phone?

no quotes needed. its pretty easy to understand.
your service cost go down. You can keep the same phone and pay less total, or you can get a new phone and pay about the same, depending on device.

the service and the phone are separate. its a lot more simple, and how it should be.


these plans are really going to drive mid range phones. you can now get a very capable smartphone equivalent to a flagship of a year or 2 ago for $200-$300. Pay that up front (what you were paying for a subsidized phone before) and then your total out of pocket costs go down by $20 or so a month. win win.

It definitely makes a whole lot more sense - but is definitely throwing people for a loop who just thought that all these phones cost $200.

It's also driving up the "used" market - I was trying to get a Lumia 1020 or 1520 and they are definitely more pricey than they were just a little while ago.