Can I upgrade to Iphone6 Verizon now, my wife wait for Iphone7, then swap? Need answer fast...

[Leo_Bloom]

I have an iPhone 4s with a dead screen where the “y” “b” and “h” (and the numerals of those keys when the 123 keyboard is in play). I rely on autocorrect, which is helpless when I need the initial letter; I keep a Notes page with handy numerals and words (my name, for one) to copy when necessary. And when I need to click exactly there in other apps, tough luck, This has gone on for a week, which is far enough. Repair by Apple: they don’t do it anymore. Local shop: $85.

That would be dumb.

My wife and I are both out of contract. She’s happy using the phone until forever, she claims. I lust after the iPhone 7 rumored for fall. So, can I buy the (subsidized with new contract) Iphone6 now, give it to her when the Iphone7 arrives, have her buy that, and then swap SIMs?I believe this is called cross upgrading–is that how it works?

[kanicbird]

If the iPattern holds it will not be the iPhone 7 but the iPhone 6s and 6+s(or other such designation).

But yes according to a recent cNet cite, yes you can swap the sim cards and be happy.

Unlimited forever! Data junkies look to hang on to their plans

Verizon customers no longer need to ask a representative to provision a device for their account. All its 4G LTE devices come equipped with SIM cards, which can be swapped in and out to change service. This means that you could upgrade one of the lines that is under contract on Verizon’s tiered offering to a new phone, pop out the SIM card from the new device, and replace it with a SIM card from the device that is linked to your unlimited account. And voila, your new phone will then use the same phone number associated with the unlimited service. The Verizon representative confirmed that doing this would allow you to swap accounts, but she emphasized that the company does not encourage customers to do this.

[Leo_Bloom]

Thanks for the cite. Interesting about SerenDipity: Cnet picks up, I ask, and you find story. The author, nor the rep, obviously, doesn’t go into the grey market for Verizon unlimited plans on Ebay, and the intricacies of keeping the unlimited, particularly with the Iphone4, which necessitate require buying only on the net, never talking to sales reps, and ice skating around initializing the new phone/SIM into not realizing its a new phone/SIM.

The point of the article, and the Verizon rep’s response, was on a particular issue: keeping a now-discontinued unlimited plan by hook or (semi?)crook. The idea, naturally, has been kicked around for years, particularly on Reddit.

I don’t have an unlimited data plan, and my hazy understanding of the situation prevents me from understanding the Verizon response for honest for God and Corporation-intension-fearing phoners like me.

I think the answer is yes. But I’m also Corporation-intention-fearing. Im not sure if even w/o the desire for keeping the data plan it can be done–despite what the rep says explicitly on this issue–w/o the multifarious techniques described in the Reddit thread, the burden of which is don’t ask a rep, because if they don’t want you to do something, they now know you want to do that, and will tweak your account preventing just that. I want two brand new plans, for which I’m willing to pay.

Yes, my middle name is paranoid.

[kanicbird]

I recently upgraded from a iP4 to iP6, called the Verizon rep, went over options and pricing, told them I don’t see any advantage or cost saving in their new offerings (which the rep also had to see) and want to keep my current unlimited plan and buy the phone outright. It was really no problem or issue, I now have the unlimited plan on this new phone.

I could not however use my upgrade credit, well I was first told I could but they later reneged on that.