only phone i've paid full price for was the nexus one with at&t 3G. if they would have had a subsidized version, i could have kept my flawless record of not paying full price at 0.
I've done it a couple of times and now that VZ will stop offering one year contracts, full retail is all i am going to have to pay for my parents' phone and mine.
WOW Barrist, care to give us tips on how to do that?
lol i should clarify that im on a corporate plan with Rogers in Canada which has a faster HUP cycle (12 months vs 24 months on my carrier). but even still, when i was on a regular voice/data plan, i could call in, ask for their retentions department and get some type of credit or early upgrade.
If i were you, i'd hold off until your contract expires, if it's around mid-2012, you'll be able to grab a QNX BlackBerry then. I myself have had a Sprint premier upgrade since june 2010 and my contract expires this June 06 with Sprint, so i'm pretty fortunate to be able to upgrade my Curve 8330 to a Bold Touch 9930, which will hold me very well until i'm availible for an upgrade in June 2013, when I'm sure BlackBerry will have a fantastic Bold Touch 4G w/QNX OS for Sprint.
I've never paid full price for a phone but since I'm 1 yr into a 3 year contract I just might when the bold touch comes out if I can't convince Bell to cut me a deal. You'd think working for them would help but it doesn't. For hardware anyways. I do get a discounted bill. Nothing on hardware though.
I want this new Bold.
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Unfortunately in India there are no carrier subsidized BB's. So I HAVE to buy at full price all the time.
I have to keep $1000 aside for tech spends every year. And this years quota is over between the the Torch in September and the Playbook 64 gb this month.
Will use the Torch till QNX is launched though. Reduce average yearly spend.
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