“According to the email we’ve received, Verizon will begin pre-order sales at 3am Eastern on February 3rd,” Arnold Kim reports for MacRumors.
“Verizon is also allowing some existing AT&T iPhone customers to trade-in their iPhone for credit when buying a new Verizon iPhone 4,” Kim reports. “We not sure if this will be offered to non-corporate accounts, but the trade-in price list is as follows:”
iPhone 2G – 16GB: $60
iPhone 3G – 16GB: $105
iPhone 3Gs 32GB: $160
iPhone 4- 16GB: $280
iPhone 4 – 32GB: $360
More info in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Arline M.” for the heads up.]
Yet another f-you to early iPhone 1 adopters.
It is not enough to have the iPhone. Verizon, (sounding more evil, remember the anti-iPhone commercial they ran?) needs to make efforts to take customers away from At&t. Verizon is like Google. They don’t compete based on a better product, they compete to be a nemesis.
At&t, now you have to step up. Give customers something to keep up with your nemesis. May I suggest, cheaper data plans? Or how about a voice plan starting at $19.99 I hardly talk on the phone! Or how about free texting with a data plan? 200MB plan comes free with 200 text messages. 2GB comes free with 2,000 text messages? Can’t be that hard!
No it was an f-you to you in particular, Altivec Guru. I for one, was happy to buy iphone 1 at full price. No one made me buy it. I was happy to hold the future in my hands.
I’m moderately interested in moving to verizon and getting my wife in, too. But what happens in four months when iPhone 5 comes out? Could we trade up? No one’s saying. We definitely would rather wait a few months and get a far better phone than jump right in and be saddled with last year’s model for months to come.
@Altivec Guru
Yet another f-you to early iPhone 1 adopters
Not sure how your reasoning works. I was an early adopter and bought the 1st gen iPhone a month after it came out. Two years later I sold it on eBay for $325 and bought a 3GS. Last summer, I sold my 3GS for $350 and bought an iPhone 4. I hope to do the same when the iPhone 5 comes out.
I guess if you sit back and let tech pass you by, you’ll be screwed, but you could have easily taken advantage of a few chances to sell and upgrade.
I could never sell my original iPhone. Heck I still have a Newton.
@El Guapo – That would be the strategy. Let ATT keep you up with the tech with subsidies. The worst month ever is month 25 of an ATT two-year contract. You pay as much as ever, but your technology is two years old.
@Splat – I can relate, much as I believe what I wrote above.
From above article: “iPhone 2G – 16GB: $60”
The iPhone 2G (original iPhone) only came in 4GB and 8 GB. How are they offering a $60 trade-in for a 16GB iPhone 2G?
@lurker
“The worst month ever is month 25 of an ATT two-year contract.”
Huh? Aren’t there only 24 months in a two-year contract? As I sell each old phone, I make enough to buy the newest one with $ to spare (almost enough to cover cost of AppleCare). The worst month was the first one where I plunked $500 down for the original iPhone.