Orange to trade up iPhones?

According to Boy Genius Report, French iPhone carrier Orange may be offering current iPhone users a 3G iPhone for ~~€30~~ €50 (thanks to kol and jaxx for pointing out my typo!) if they trade in their old iPhone, as well as "generous subsidies" for users who wish to upgrade and keep their current handset.

The news comes from reader tips to French tech site PCInpact, though Orange apparently has no official statement yet.

We can just add this to the number of other 3G iPhone rumors that have been swirling as of late.

[via CrunchGear]

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Source: http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/05/27/orange-preparing-t…

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Lars

I have a hard time finding economic sense (from Orange's view point) in offering this.

I'm with T-Mobile (in The Neths) and I can upgrade to a new phone for a reasonable amount (also in the 40 - 50 euro region) but only after one year *minimum*. The iPhone hasn't been out that long in France (nov '07).

Telco's aren't in the business of pleasing customers - they'd rather milk the OMG! new version! OMG! must have ! OMG! OMG! for all it's worth.

May 28 2008 at 12:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ryan Trevisol

"BONJOURRRRR, you cheese-eating, subsidy-loving, surrender monkeys!"~Groundskeeper Willie

May 28 2008 at 11:20 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

nicoals

Please try to be a bit more considered with your pictures.In Europe Americans are also not portrait as Burger-eating-Bush-loving Taxans in front of an SUV...

May 28 2008 at 11:18 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Joshua Ellis

Oh, yes we are. :-)

No offense was meant, of course. I was just trying to capture the concept of "French telecom discounts iPhone" with an image. I mean, I could have shown the iPhone lounging around with the Sun King at Versailles, but that might have been stretching the metaphor a bit....

May 28 2008 at 11:26 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

frank

at least the iphone wasn't holding a loaf of french bread and a glass of wine...

May 28 2008 at 1:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brian Burns

Omg! A talking hat.

May 28 2008 at 11:17 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

iPhoneinator

how much is 30 (then that little E thingy... maybe euros?) in american money?

May 28 2008 at 11:14 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Joshua Ellis

At this precise moment, according to Google, it's $77.92.

May 28 2008 at 11:16 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

iPhoneinator

shoot im moving to france!

May 28 2008 at 11:25 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

JaXX

The rumor states 50â‚¬, not 30â‚¬...

PCimpact's buzz news (Yeah, a PC website who brings in Apple news is already weird to start with) said that Orange has contacted a big bunch of iPhone early-adopters to question them on what to offer for a v1 to v2 switch...
Two solutions, either a phone swap for 50â‚¬, or a slightly bigger amount allowing you to keep your v1 (/me thinks of a gift for his gf :-) ) Nothing said about reconducting actual contracts for another 2 years or simply continuing them.

And again, it's only a rumor... not a single french Mac-website reader has brought any proof of a call from Orange yet, besides a couple of "They called me" lacking details...

So wait and see.

Julien (JaXX) Banchet
http://jaxx.org/

May 28 2008 at 11:03 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dan

I hope this is true and AT&T will allow trade ups too!!

May 28 2008 at 10:58 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply