apple upgrade plan

[d000hg]

Paying £500 per year for a phone without a contract is a lot. Typically phones are tied to a two year contract. Great, you're getting a brand new one each of the two years, but you're essentially lumbering yourself with a £1000 hardware bill and no call time/data rather than picking up a decent phone for £300 and a simfree deal for £20/month.

Interestingly (well not really) O2 have a similar model already where they separate the contract from the phone cost. You pay for both separately and can refresh your phone at any point.

I just think that iPhones hold their value so well that if you bought one each year and sold it a year later, you'd be paying WAY less than £500.

[TheCyclingProgrammer]

It's a fair point about resale value. My wife will be getting my iPhone 6 which means I can either keep her old iPhone 5 as a testing device or sell it - I can currently get £90 for it (although I need to account for VAT on that (still £76 though).