Fully supported is stretching it, a lot. Does a phone you have/want support 5G Wifi for example; this starts to be a cutoff for me for example on age. Latest phones are getting new features all the time. But many people don't need them all. Still, beyond 3-4 years old and things start to drop off fast.
I agree, but the anti-apple crowd like to spill forth the "obsolete every 12 months!" argument.. Google releases a new Nexus every year, Samsung releases a new Galaxy what seems like every few months in one variation or another, but nobody rushes to claim the previous model is "obsolete".
My 17 month old iPhone 6+ is still 100% supported. Yes, the later model hardware introduced more features that my hardware doesn't have (force touch, for example), but that doesn't IMHO make it obsolete, it makes it a previous model.
To use a car analogy, if you went out and bought a new Corvette today and then in a few months the 2017 models came out with a few extra farkles...is your 2016 "obsolete"? Of course not.
And PP, when is that last time you did the hardware upgrade through Rogers retentions?
I'm with Fido which is actually notoriously harder to get any deals from since they are already the "budget brand" arm of Rogers. I upgraded last December just before Christmas to the iPhone 6+ - the most expensive iPhone they carried at the time. As mentioned, with the initial CSR I spoke to I got the usual (and fully expected) song and dance about how I couldn't keep my plan. I said "fine then, I'd like to cancel my line then, I'll go with a competitor". It was 100% a bluff as I protect my 6 gig data plan vehemently, but it's always a bluff they fall for and you'll get transferred to their customer retentions people...and they can make stuff happen that the first line CSR's simply can't do. I've done 3 upgrades over the years all while keeping my 6 gig data plan, all times being told I couldn't do it initially.
It is possible, you just have to learn to play their game. Tactful negotiation via the retentions department is the key - the typical customer service reps are powerless to make these sorts of things happen so you need to threaten to cancel to get through to retentions instead. Even if you don't plan to actually cancel, you need to bluff your way there.
In the end, I probably never would actual cancel as I know I'd be tossing away my 6 gig plan forever and there's never been anything comparable since, but I've never needed to do more than threaten. That 6 gig is important for me however as someone who spends so much time on the road.
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. It's been laggy from day one, with iOS 8. I got a zte grand x plus with my fido dollars when I cancelled my fido. For a device that's worth $100 I like it a lot more than my 5S.
