AT&T Next Up Anytime lets you get three phone upgrades per year, but it’s not cheap

AT&T announced Next Up Anytime, a caller aboriginal upgrade programme for customers connected an AT&T installment plan, which volition beryllium disposable starting July 16th. At $10 per month, it’s much costly than AT&T’s existing $6 per period Next Up add-on but gives subscribers the enactment of upgrading their smartphone arsenic soon arsenic conscionable 1 installment outgo has been made, up to 3 times per year.

With AT&T’s older $6 monthly Next Up add-on, customers are eligible to commercialized successful and upgrade their devices arsenic soon arsenic they wage disconnected fractional of it, either done monthly installment payments oregon sooner with a lump sum payment.

The caller Next Up Anytime add-on present allows customers to commercialized successful and upgrade a instrumentality aft conscionable 33 percent of it is paid off. For AT&T’s 36-month installment plans, that means customers tin upgrade aft the archetypal twelvemonth portion inactive being capable to instrumentality vantage of discounts done upgrade promotions.

For those who privation a caller smartphone much often than that, Next Up Anytime besides allows customers to upgrade “as soon arsenic 1 installment outgo and the archetypal Next Up Anytime outgo is made.” However, customers choosing that attack won’t beryllium eligible for upgrade promotions — they’ll beryllium paying the afloat terms for a caller instrumentality — and are constricted to 3 upgrades per year.

When AT&T launched its Next monthly fees for yearly upgrades successful 2013, we did the mathematics and figured retired that they could go a immense ripoff with their sliding standard of installment fees. This plan’s level complaint makes things easier, but it’s inactive going to beryllium a pricey mode to unrecorded for radical who privation to swap retired their on-contract phones regularly.

An AT&T lawsuit unhappy with the deficiency of a telephoto lens connected the Google Pixel 8A they bought successful May could upgrade successful August to the Galaxy Z Fold 6 that we expect Samsung volition denote adjacent month. At that point, they could power to AT&T’s caller Next Up Anytime add-on, which would let them to upgrade to the Google Pixel 9 (assuming an earlier merchandise day this year), followed by the iPhone 16 successful September and past Samsung Galaxy S25 successful February — if anyone really does this, delight interaction us.