How to get an early Upgrade from Verizon?

I have an iPhone 4S and do not have an upgrade until the beginning of March 2014 however the last few months my phone has slowly been breaking. It shuts off at random times and it doesn't hold a charge at all. I have insurance and they'll replace the phone, but the technology is so outdated I don't want another 4s. Is there anyhing I can say to Verizon that can convince them to give me an early upgrade if I go to the Verizon store with the service center?

Video and text chatting on Skype?

I really want to use Skype to video chat on my iPhone 4S but my mic is seriously messed up and doesn't really work properly so I need to use text chat whilst video calling but I don't know how to on the iPhone. Any help is much appreciated!

Which is better the iphone 5 or iphone 5c?

I want to get an iphone but I'm not sure which one to get.could any of you please give me some information on both. Like what does each have that the other does not? Which one is better?

IPhone 4 boot loop ios 6.1.3 to ios 7?

My phone was running iOS 6.1.3 with a tethered jailbreak, i had a nightmare to get it of and get iOS 7, but eventually i managed and 2 days later my iPhone turned off unexpectedly and would not turn back on, it got stuck in a boot loop. But it is not jailbroken. So i tried to fix it and no i'm stuck in recovery mode, how do i get my phone back to normal?