All the main carriers, ATT, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile have rolled out with upgrade plans that allow its users to upgrade their phone more frequently. While this sounds awesome, according the Verge they aren't exactly worth it. I am someone who always wants new technology. I love my devices and than I soon become frustrated with them because they get "slow" or "buggy" but in reality they just get old. It is common for humans to want something just because its the new thing, an unfortunate trait that many of us share. The cell phone companies figured this out and came out with very complicated plans to make it seem like you are inf act both getting new devices on a more regular basis and you don't have to pay as much! It seems to good to be true, and in fact it is. As the Verge describes, these plans give the illusion of being a good deal but because the charges they put on it it actually would be cheaper to just buy the phone for full price off contract and bring it to the carrier.
This of course is not possible for every person but even so. The way that they get away with this is by making it hard to understand what they are charging you for. They put overages on the phones already so that they can make a profit but than they tell you you have to pay hardware charges which is basically the same thing as the overage charges but because they put the overage charges in your phone bill they can call it hardware charges and make you pay them twice. In reality you will be paying for your phone twice with these plans and it is actually surprising that Verizon is the worst deal of them all.
In the end we all want new things but sometimes it is just better to have a little patience because what's a few more months here or there right?
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