Being an apple user since 2000ish I used to get the new iPhones every year up to iPhone 5 but since 2012 I’ve not bothered as there’s nothing in the new releases that I personally thought worth it, I bought a 2nd hand 6S in 2015 ish then an iPhone XS in 2020 (mum still uses my 6S) which has years left in it for my use
in the early days the leaps in performance and functionality from year to year were pretty significant whereas the platform is more mature now and improvements are incremental. durability is better now too, the early phones really weren't that robust.
pre-orders at 1. need to decide whether to go for the 14pro...
Android is buggy (Chrome doubly so), and the ads are just unbearable. More than 60% of search results are now ads on my phone, Gmail has them slotted in amongst emails, and YouTube sucks.
Firefox on android is decent, and there are, er, COUGH plugins for it that will, er, COUGH 'help' with the COUGH ads. (Not on Gmail though). Sorry, seemed to get something stuck in my throat there.
Also don't forget DuckDuckGo, which is a bit more of a privacy focused search engine than Google.
What I did will never get is why people who only use their phone for calls/messages/music even bother coming onto a thread for a cutting edge, premium smartphone and say “ooohhh, it’s not for me, I only use mine for calls/messages/music” 😀🙄😂
are you new here?
Evidently 😀
Pixel 4 has been good but so slow now, Android is buggy
not hugely surprising on an old phone.
Also don’t forget DuckDuckGo
or Opera - used for 99% of my Android browsing.
14Pro ordered for pickup at the apple store next week...
My 11 Pro Max has started showing some significant issues with connecting to both wifi, which it shows as being connected to, but attempts to access Apple Music get a message that I need to connect to wifi, and also connecting to my car infotainment system.
My car Infotainment system has also developed a problem with its screen - the warranty ran out last month. ☹️
Everything seems to be going wrong at the moment, with big costs involved, and I’m really struggling to deal with it all.
The phone I was intending to upgrade anyway, there are significant improvements over mine, including a 1Tb storage upgrade, as well as cameras and performance.
My car, on the other hand… 🥺
When my Samsung work phone went back I really wanted a 13 but in the end settled for my wife's cracked screen XR while she got the 13. Having seen them back to back I really can't justify the extra cost for the limited improvements so expect I'll just get the screen fixed at some point.
Still, both are miles better than the android Samsung.
Android is buggy (Chrome doubly so), and the ads are just unbearable. More than 60% of search results are now ads on my phone, Gmail has them slotted in amongst emails, and YouTube sucks.
Agreed, could never get on with it, especially when mixed in with a Chromebook. Yuk!
I have an XS that I was planning to upgrade to the 14 Pro. But blimey, the price is ridiculous
My XS is on a noticeable go slow, but the battery health is apparently 80% and I'm wondering whether that's actually optimistic, if I get the battery replaced it might improve performance. Has anyone done this and noticed an actual improvement? I know they say performance is slowed down when battery performance reduces, but wondering whether phone age also kicks in a bit
the perfomance of the phone will not change, it's just the software is asking it to do more. I'm using an old 7 and the software and its a bit sluggish but the fact a 6yr old phone can still run the latest OS is quite impressive.
Picked my 14 Pro up earlier. It’s rather nice..
Worth checking how much you’ll get from Music Magpie for your old iPhone. £335 for my iPhone 11 Pro. But new phone prices are insane, prefer to buy refurbs now.
Apple offered me £35 for the 7 that’s getting retired. I’ll keep it in the back of a drawer for that price..
Might be my first iPhone. Hope the satellite comms bit comes to Europe but sneaky suspicion that it’s unique to the US-destined phones.
Something I read today was hinting that it’ll be sooner rather than later - Apple have bought into the Globalstar satellite network in a very big way, somewhere around 80% of its capacity, so they’ll be wanting to capitalise on their investment.
I’m close to putting in an online order for a 14 Pro Max with 1Tb of storage with O2. I checked what I can get for my 11 Pro Max, and somewhere around £288. Something else they’re offering; pay an extra £3.50/month, and you get free upgrades in future. There don’t seem to be any catches, so I might go for that - a year old 14 Pro Max is going to have a high resale value, so I can see where they’re coming from.
Oh, and with reference to my above post, I think my car infotainment system is probably ok, there’s been a breakdown in the phones ability to talk to it, probably needs a hard reset, but as I’m replacing it, I’m not too fussed about it.
Apple offered me £35 for the 7 that’s getting retired. I’ll keep it in the back of a drawer for that price..
Set it up as a home security camera. I’ve still got my old 6+ kicking around, so I might install an appropriate app and set it up somewhere.
Stick. I’d be waiting until either the battery started to die or you stopped getting updates.
This is sound advice. It’s all about want vs need. Sure, it’s nice to have the latest thing, but it’s expensive, pointless and environmentally damaging. I tend to get about 3-4 years out of any smartphone; all the little drops, bangs and hot/cold cycles tend to degrade the electronics, and the batteries also degrade. I replace when performance becomes a pain in the arse. On a 12 now; will probably not replace for another 2-3 years yet. Plus a big jump to new technology is far more fun than a smaller one from say one year to the next year’s model. I went from a Samsung S7 to my iPhone 12; a significant leap!
I’ve a 11 pro and a Samsung tablet - I feel the Android OS is better for me. But Apple hardware is just so good - I’ve not seen an Android phone that feels as solid as an iPhone, and has the same(ish) specs in a small(ish) form factor.
Plus, I carry the phone when i’m out hill running in a waist belt where it sits for hours in warm salty sweat, and - touch wood - seems totally unbothered about that
I’ve got a XS that the Face ID has decided to stop working on so I was planning on getting the 14 Pro. I’m just struggling to get over the price…
The purple is lovely though!
got a 14pro, moving up from a 7. It's really nice but a fair bit heavier and I still haven't sorted the esim out yet.
If anyone wants a working 7 with a cracked screen let me know. I'm thinking charitable donation and postage cost.
iPhone 14 pro looks ace now they’ve got rid of the notch.
For the early adopters, how’s the ‘dynamic island’ working out?
It just works.
I got one in the end. In fact EE (or rather DPD) sent me two by mistake. Literally no record of the second one by EE. They took it back though and gave me £30 off my next bill. I hate my honesty.
@doris5000, 3G is due to be phased out from next year. A new phone will be required. We use a couple of 5S phones for work duty and Vodafone have been nagging us to upgrade for 6 months.
I’m in an 8 which was second hand from CEX, I’ll give it to apple though I managed to smash a small bit of the screen too left and even 9 months later it hasn’t come off any further!
Going to a 13 in a few weeks as cheaper than my 8 is costing me at the moment, I can only use an apple phone now too!
Looking forward to the upgrade but tbh the 8 even camerawise hasn’t been bad. Definitely slowed down a tad though I’ll say, but that’s fairly standard!
I got one in the end. In fact EE (or rather DPD) sent me two by mistake. Literally no record of the second one by EE. They took it back though and gave me £30 off my next bill. I hate my honesty.
Well, that was a mistake. Following further investigation EE now suspects me of fraud.
7 was light but screen felt small, I accidentally went with XR after that and couldn’t wait for a change as it felt too heavy. I got 12 now and really have no issues or upgradeitis after a year on it. These have been work phones with 2 year contract so I don’t have much emotional or financial attachment to them.
Just returned my 14 Pro to the Apple Store. Couldn’t get on with the size of it, or more crucially, the weight, after years with a 12 Mini.
Grabbed a 13 Mini to tide me over until the SE catches up a bit.
