Rogers Way Early Upgrade

[RGGG]

Hi All,

As per a post I made earlier, I'm sort of looking to upgrade, get rid of my current android phone, a Galaxy Note. While I loved it at first, the honeymoon is long over, and I'm looking to just move on from Android. I've come to the conclusion, I have a lot invested in iTunes and Apple, and it just makes sense to go the iPhone route.

I've tried contacting Rogers but havent gotten a definitive answer on this, so here goes.

I upgraded to the Galaxy Note in early May, i think my total cost at the time for it was around $200 after fees and such. If I were to walk into a Rogers store today, could I use the new Rogers FlexTab and resign a new contract to get a new iPhone for around the same costs, or would I be looking at having to pay the difference on my early HUP fee, and thus looking at towards 500-600 mark just to upgrade...of course selling the Note would help reduce this cost as well.

Just looking for some opinions or experience on this, as Rogers seems to be of no help at the moment


Cheers

Ryan

[Jimboski]

Hasn't been a couple of months yet and you want a new HUP? Going to cost you an arm and a leg because you aren't subjected to a new HUP for another 2 years.
If anything I'd suggest selling the Note for whatever you can and throwing the rest In and buying It out right, An iPhone that Is.

[freerider_4life]

Hasn't been a couple of months yet and you want a new HUP? Going to cost you an arm and a leg because you aren't subjected to a new HUP for another 2 years.
If anything I'd suggest selling the Note for whatever you can and throwing the rest In and buying It out right, An iPhone that Is.

Rogers upgrade policy is 3 years now.

[dragon_drift]

What Jimboski said. Sell the note now and buy the iPhone.

[Dina_E]

you can easily get a 4s for a note without loosing money, hell you might even get some cash in trade.

[RGGG]

That's what I feared. My only reasoning for it being plausible was I upgraded to the Note barely a year after the start of my contract (going from a Torch 9800) At the time my calculations would have been close to 300 for the early HUP fee, plus an additional 200 for the Note (what it was on contract at the time) but I walked out that day paying just over 200 in total...I dunno lol

[Jimboski]

Rogers upgrade policy is 3 years now.

Damn really? It was like 2 years then 2.5 years.. Now 3?

[bembol]

It's 36 months.

OP I used my HUP when iPhone 4 (not the 4S) came out and looked at the prices for upgrading early. Rogers wants $186 plus $60 EUF for Samsung Galaxy S2 LTE.

As Dina_E says, you can do a straight trade for 16GB 4S or even 32GB if you're lucky.

[XxXSnake23XxX]

On older contracts it should be 2.5 years

Its actually whenever you want now with the FlaxTab

[MkmBandit]

On older contracts it should be 2.5 years

Its actually whenever you want now with the FlaxTab

With FlexTab though wouldn't you'd either need to pay off the remainder of the subsidy or get the carrier to lift the remaining balance? What's Rogers policy on term length for lifting the balance?

[RGGG]

I dropped by a Rogers store last night, and although he was a new employee, his basic understanding was that for the Flextab, I would still need to pay off a significant HUP in order to get the FlexTab for a new phone...I'm not sure why, as that doesn't make sense to me. He said he didn't know for sure, and that I should wait for the other guy who knew more about it to figure it out, but it was fairly busy, and i didn't have the time to wait much longer.

Will probably flash it again, and wait until the iPhone 5 and see what I can do then...


Ryan

[desidealer49]

You could sell the note and get the iPhone without losing money through bst or kijiji. No harm in it either.

[RGGG]

True...the Note looks like it holds its value quite well still. I may go that route and see what comes of it...

[anm00727]

Based on my experience with early upgrades, I feel its best not to bother with upgrade/renew, and just sell and buy outright on kijiji (unless i reach the 3 year mark and have a decent contract)
I believe the Note should fetch you ~400-450, and iPhone 4s maybe ~500, so it isn't that big of a difference.
You should probably do it soon, since I believe the Note 2 will come out soon and will impact the selling price.