Upgrading to iPhone 3GS: how you responded

26.06.2009
A little more than a week ago, just as Apple was about to unleash the on a waiting world, we fired off a blog post in this very space to ask our readers the $199/$299 question: ?

Many of the readers responding to our completely unscientific poll did, in fact, have upgrade plans. But nearly as many were planning on taking a pass on this particular iteration of the iPhone.

Combing through the , I counted 29 people who had upgraded to the iPhone 3GS, while 26 people were not planning on getting the new phone. Another nine respondents weren't planning to take the plunge right away--either their current contract with service provider AT&T wasn't up yet, or they were holding off until the hoopla died down--so I chalked those up to a separate wait-and-see category.

Again, not the sort of rigorously cross-checked and peer-reviewed numbers you'd cite in a report on upgrade patterns, but I found some of the responses interesting--particularly among readers who weren't planning on snapping up an iPhone 3GS now or any time in the near future.

First, we have the upgraders, who more often than not, seemed to be trading in original iPhones for the newer model. Said forum member :

We're upgrading two original iPhones to the iPhone 3G S. The old iPhones are either going in the glove compartment to feed my son's headrest screen on long roadtrips, or to relatives to get them hooked on Apple.