Orange preparing to offer upgrade incentive for new iPhone?
In move that would be very welcome over here in the States, it looks like Orange France might be offering incentives to attract current iPhone owners to the next generation device. Apparently, the company is offering current iPhone owners a new 3G iphone for 50 Euros if they trade in their old device. Current users wishing to upgrade and hold on to their current handset can expect “generous subsidies”. Orange hasn’t released any official statement on the matter, so we’re not sure how widespread the incentive program may be, but if any other global iPhone carriers want to jump on the subsidy bandwagon, we’d be all for it.
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My French is a little rusty…that doesn’t say the 3G phone is coming Nov. 29, does it?
I’ll be apoplectic if i have to wait that long.
Think that’s the old ad for when the first iPhone launched…
I wonder how that would skew the consolidated worldwide sales numbers? Doing this, neither Apple nor the rest of us would be able to know how many iPhones are actually in use in the wild?
with it so eay to raid the memmoery for personal infoe why woulkd you wnat toditch the device? untill crapple offers a solution to suckessfully wipe the entiredevice so you can’tad any pesonal or vital411 form thedevice with certainty i would not be so quick to turn it in
LOL galv I seriously doubt anyone is worried about any data left on your device, you are safe to upgrade.
Here’s a scary story. According to a story reported on iPhone Atlas, a refurbished iPhone may still contain personal user data. It refers to a refurb iPhone, purchased from Apple and fresh out of the box that contained old e-mails from the previous user.
Apparently the “Reset” command found on the iPhone (Settings->General->Reset) and then choosing any of the 5 reset options, doesn’t really wipe off all the data. It is still there on the iPhone. The restore function in iTunes doesn’t do the trick either.
This is not such a surprising finding, according to much of the discussion surrounding this report. Old computers, crashed hard disks, even old ordinary mobile phone retain their data. There are only a couple ways to get rid of the old data – use a program that resets all the data to 0’s, or completely destroy the hard disk, memory or computer/iPhone.
That Apple would allow iPhones out the door that could compromise the personal data of the previous owner, ones who had to exchange their iPhone for another or simply return it, is disappointing. It could especially be a problem in the near future, as thousands of current iPhone users swap their phones for the anticipated new 3G model.
@galvatron
We know that already, and I thought it was said that in order to retrieve the info, requires some serious hacking and such. Something most people won’t have to worry about. Plus engadget has ways to complete remove everything, so now everything should be good.
yo loss and id stolen not mine
Man,…i hope AT&T does this too… b/c i just bought the iPhone not more than a month ago…
Actually…what I heard from a tmobile rep was that Orange was actually working with them to create/release an Iphone competitor