iPhone 3G owners petition for early upgrade to iPhone 3G S
O2 and AT&T are catching some heat following the announcement of Apple’s new iPhone 3G S handset on Monday night. Why? Because people who bought an iPhone 3G 12 months ago aren’t eligible for an upgrade when the new model goes on sale later this month.
To get one, both operators are saying they’ll have to pay up the rest of their existing contract first – adding $200 / £200 to the price of the 3G S. Spleen is being vented, and online petitions are being signed.
On the one hand, the operators aren’t being particularly nasty – you can’t break an 18-month contract just because a sexy new phone turns up. On the other, though, they’ve managed to enrage many of their early iPhone adopters – and the affair shows the mismatch between Apple’s 12-month product cycle and the operators’ 18/24-month contracts.
Tags: apple, at&t, iphone 3G S, o2
June 10th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
why should people get an early upgrade????, when the Nokia N96 came out people with the N95 weren’t petitioning for an early upgrade on that so why should it be any different for the iphone????
June 12th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
cos iphone is good and nokia n96 was not.
June 15th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
I want a new iPhone 3Gs at discounted prices