If you're a current AT&T iPhone user just dying to get your hands on the iPhone 4 in a few weeks time, you may be paying less for the phone than you thought. AT&T is extending the iPhone 4 upgrade pricing to current iPhone users who normally wouldn't qualify for the discounted price until later in the year.
AT&T will begin selling the iPhone 4 on June 24, and will start taking pre-orders for the device on June 15. The 16GB iPhone 4 will cost $199 for new customers and those eligible for the upgrade pricing, while the 32GB iPhone 4 will cost those same customers $299. Those prices require a two-year service commitment.
If you're a current AT&T customer who is not eligible for the discount, the price goes up: the 16GB iPhone 4 will cost "early upgraders" $399 and the 32GB version will cost $499. Those prices, too, require that you extend your contract for two more years.
Typically, AT&T customers are eligible for a discounted upgraded pricing anywhere from 12 to 18 months into their contracts, but some are not eligible until later in their contracts. That could mean that many customers who purchased the iPhone 3GS in June 2009 wouldn't be eligible for the cheapest price on the new iPhone 4, and would have to pay the "early upgrade" price instead. AT&T, however, is stepping in to help these customers out.
"To let current iPhone customers quickly upgrade to iPhone 4, AT&T will make its best pricing immediately available to any iPhone customer who would be upgrade eligible for a discounted device by the end of 2010," AT&T said in a statement released after Apple's WWDC announcement of the iPhone 4.
To find out if you are eligible for an upgrade, you can visit att.com/mywireless or dial *639# from your current iPhone.
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