so who here is keeping their old iPhone as a backup?

[thechidz]

I am going to keep my old iphone and not upgrade it to 2.0. I'll keep it unlocked just in case something happens to my 3G phone (when I get it) so that I can pop the sim in and use it. I mean, I paid full price for the thing, I'm on att's plan and still will be for 2 more years. I see nothing wrong with keeping the old one unlocked for this purpose, I more than paid for it... anyone else?

 

[bigandtasty]

your 3G, our OG

was planning on keeping mine as a backup (Day 1), got to AT&T to late this morning planning on getting another day 1 3g, but our biggest store (1of3) only had 50 total. Manager would not disclose how many 8gb vs 16g (which I was going to buy in white), instead he just kept saying/chanting "50 phones".

There I was standing in line, instead of (Trying due to servers down!) spiffing out my "OG" v1 iphone with 2.0, making my iphone that much better, for FREE...

My new plan as of about 9am is to hold off for a few months and just see what size they release this fall (32gb - Nov?)

I owe it to the "O"riginal "G"ansta" to use it a bit longer than 12 months

B&T

 

[amesbunny03]

sounds like a great idea, and i may end up doing that as well

 

[gceo]

Yup. It's a perfect back up. So perfect, I'll use it first.

 

[buckeye17]

Yup. It's a perfect back up. So perfect, I'll use it first.

Hahahha.

Ya rly, they're pretty much the same phone.

 

[Unconsoled]

Does it become a Touch?

I thought I had seen something that current iPhone users who upgrade can keep their old phones which basically become an iPod Touch. Is that right? The wife and I are going to get 3G ones but I want to sell my old 4GB and it would be more attractive if non-AT&T users could use it as a Touch.

Can anyone confirm this?

 

[taylorwilsdon]

Sold it for 400 bucks. Whats the point of keeping it? Sell it while it still has some value (before someone finds a way to buy non-contract 3g phones and unlock them).

 

[thechidz]

I thought I had seen something that current iPhone users who upgrade can keep their old phones which basically become an iPod Touch. Is that right? The wife and I are going to get 3G ones but I want to sell my old 4GB and it would be more attractive if non-AT&T users could use it as a Touch.

Can anyone confirm this?

well, mine is unlocked so I just pop my tmobile prepaid sim in there and use it as my go phone

only data I get is wifi but thats cool for me

 

[Ozz.Man]

Then theres those few who couldn't get an iPhone, so we just decided to keep our old one and say the hell with it since the nearest Apple store is a 2 hour drive.

 

[MacsAttack]

Was thinking about getting a touch for a test dev device. But getting a 3G phone and going PayG with the old one would give me a spare phone that I could use for dev testing.

Just waiting for O2 to get their PayG option for old iPhones sorted.

And the white one to be available as an upgrade.

Then I'll look into it some more.

Maybe.