Monday 30 July 2018

OK, advice.

If one was a great believer in Pay As You Go. Meaning you buy your own phone. Now I've never thought myself an Apple person but my recent phones have caused quite a bit of mayhem so I'm thinking about getting an IPhone.
Now I've not gone insane so nothing recent, that would be someplace between a car payment and a mortgage. No something remembered with fondness as a phone that did internet and telephony well.

6 comments:

  1. Well, well, well, we might convert you to an Apple user after all?!?! ;)
    Of course, the closer to the most recent phone you get is probably the better as far as capabilities go. But I'd say you'd be ok with the 7, the 6S or even the 6 (in that order). I don't believe the 5 or anything below is supported with the IOS (operating system) updates anymore so I wouldn't go below a 6. When I recently upgraded, I still had a 6 and it worked just fine. I was having battery issues but I'd also had it for 2 years, so I'm sure buying new would give you the same battery life, for awhile anyhow. The S was the "in-between" update which I never did because I wasn't on that cycle for an upgrade. My mom had that one for a bit, and I didn't notice a whole lot of difference between the two. She had hers stolen mid contract so upgraded it to the 7 and that one was quite a bit better as far as speed and camera. The 7 and above cameras far exceed the 6. My camera was stinky on the 6. I never upgraded to the 7 because they took the headphone jack away and that made me mad so I boycotted out of principle. :) They haven't put it back, so 7 and above don't have the jack and you'd need wireless headphones to listen to anything. Those, though, have become much more reasonable over the last year.
    I'm not sure how they do it in Europe, but here for a very long time we were able to buy the phone "outright" for a discounted rate, but had to sign a contract with the service provider. So while the retail price was let's say $700, we could get it for let's say $299 but had to agree to the 2 year contract with the provider. So if after the 2 years was up, it was yours and you could take it elsewhere. But most of us would upgrade to the new phone and have to start the contract all over. But since I last purchased the 6, they've changed their policy and now you can either pay the WHOLE (not discounted price) thing outright or do a monthly payment plan and you still have to sign the contract which works out to being about the same as the not discounted price. That monthly price is in addition to the monthly service. I preferred the old way, but that's what ultimately made me decide to get the X. I never would have paid $1000 for a phone, but upon looking at the phones newer than the 6, there were only $20-30 difference in the monthly payment, so I just went for the larger phone. The X is larger in size and comes with 32g in the base model, where the other ones start at 16.

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    1. Thank you for that. I was thinking about a 5 because the price was about my thinking. So tiz great to hear that's really quite a waste.
      Just to give you an idea of my phones. I have €50 home and BB service and then a PAYG phone I bought for €140 that gave me hell (well I paid 80 but that's not the point) and then a rolling €15 per month for 10,000 mins and 10 gig of data.

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  2. I have a 6s that is now several years old and going strong now that I had the battery replaced. I don't own any other Apple products but I do like their phone for several reasons. It is well made and the engineering that goes into the interface is hard to beat. At least when I got my 6s, the competing Samsung smart phones were no contest to the iphone as far as easy to use, software robustness, etc. I know this because I have two family members that got Samsungs in the same time frame as my iphone and I have to troubleshoot them all the time. But I will also add that Samsung back then had come a long way since the beginning and these days, things might be a lot closer.

    iPhone's do have some significant disadvantages if you are a PC user. They make backing up and controlling the phone using iTunes on a PC so darn complicated that whenever I have to do something like that, it inevitably takes me over an hour for a simple task. First off, I have to install about a million updates I missed since the month before. Then I have to figure out their non-intuitive way of making you do things to get the job done. This often involves google searches to find the answers and I always find forums filled with people asking the same thing so I know its not a "me" problem. Another problem is that Apple likes to shuffle things to the way they want them every time they do a major update. Settings will be turned opposite, their apps moved to prominent locations, etc. Bugs me that I have to spend time putting things back in order every update just because I don't conform to Apple's ideal world.

    Gripes aside, my next phone when the time comes will still be an iPhone. They are elegant and well engineered and I've never had a software problem that wasn't easily or quickly fixed by Apple.

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    1. I got called away before I'd finished.
      Yes, I do use a PC. I get more bang for buck generally. But I'll take on board you thoughts.

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  3. I’m a believer too. The blasted thing frustrates me at times but I couldn’t imagine life without it.

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    1. Yes. I think we at the point where the limits of the tech has gotten to where it fulfils most of our needs, if it works. My androids seemed to do the job, but e-n-d-l-e-s-s updates and ads makes things buggy pesky and annoying.

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