RE: So much for keeping my iPhone 6S Plus for another year or two

2018-11-25 Thread Sieghard Weitzel 
I suggest you check Amazon since they can be anywhere from $15 to $60 or $80 
Canadian. It does depend to some degree whether you go with a brand name like 
Belkin or Mophie and then there are differences like whether it has 1 or 2 
charging coyles, some  are stands where your iPhone can stand and charge 
(Logitech makes one which is pretty pricy) and some even have USB hubs built in 
and all that stuff. Also, some come with a larger capacity wall adapter and 
those are of course more than those who only come with a cable and you have to 
provide your own, some only provide 5 Watts at 1 Amp whereas others support the 
Apple 7.5 Watt fast charge standard and 10 Watts output for fast charging many 
of the Samsung phones.
You can of course also do what I did and Google "Best wireless charging pads of 
2018" and read a few articles and reviews to get a picture as to how these 
things work, what are the things to consider when making a decision and all 
that.
I have purchased 1 Belkim Boost Up and 1 Mophie whatever it's called and both 
of those have I think a 15 Watt wall adapter and support Apple fast charge, but 
they are also $49.99 each and that is after $20 came off for Black FRiday.
I still have a couple more in my cart on Amazon Canada, I think RavPower, they 
get good reviews and one is $19.99 and the other $29.99. I probably order them 
as well, a bit of an initial investment in this technology but one would expect 
that once you have a few of these in various places you won't buy these again 
for many years to come. At the lower price point they aren't really more 
expensive than a replacement Lightning cablwe and while I bought the two more 
expensive ones from Best Buy with another gift card I still had, they do have a 
good return policy as well. My thought is that I will test them first of all 
the Mophie against the Belkin, see which design I like better but also then see 
how the cheaper ones stack up against them. The main thing for me would be to 
check how forgiving they are when you put your phone on them because on some 
apparently even moving your phone an inch may interrupt the charging process 
and of course I want to make sure the phone charges with my preferred case. I 
also want to do some testing with respect to charging through a thin layer of 
wood since I do woodworking and ultimately it would be my goal to use my router 
and route out a recess underneath my desktop which will be the size of the 
charging pad and I would only leave an eight or three sixteenth of material, 
then use a few dots of hot glue or silicon to stick the charging pad in there 
and this would allow me to put my phone on top of my desk to charge, but the 
charging pad is not even visible because it's underneath a thin layer of the 
solid oak desktop.
I figure I need at least 4 pads, one for my wife and myself on our side tables 
in the bedroom, one in the living room we both would use and one in my office. 
Maybe I would buy one more cheaper one to use at my desk on the sales floor 
which then could also be used by my manager who also bought the iPhone 8 on 
that deal from Koodo.


Best regards,
Sieghard

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Subject: Re: So much for keeping my iPhone 6S Plus for another year or two

How much are the wireless charging pads.
Jen

On Nov 25, 2018, at 1:00 AM, Sieghard Weitzel 
mailto:siegh...@live.ca>> wrote:
Well, my main employee/store manager who has the same plan from the same 
carrier, Koodo Mobil, here in Canada just told me he was about to upgrade his 
iPhone 6 because they were offering a really good deal on the iPhone 8 64 Gb.
I had a look and my wife and I decided this was too good of an opportunity to 
pass up so we have also ordered our iPhone 8, Gold for  y wife and Space Grey 
as usual for me.

For others here in Canada, here is the deal, this is from our perspective as 
already existing Koodo customers:
We pay $150 (Canadian of course) up front
Koodo then bills us an extra $15 per month on top of what we pay for our plan 
for a period of 2 years, i.e. $15 for 24 months = $360.
After the 2 years our monthly charge goes back to what we pay now which is $49 
for 6Gb of data and unlimited Canada wide calling and texting + regular voice 
mail, visual voice mail would be $2/month extra.
Total cost for the iPhone 8 64Gb after 2 years is $510 Canadian.

I just looked in the Apple Store app and if I were to buy an iPhone 8 64Gb 
directly from Apple it would cost $820 Canadian which means we get it for $310 
less.
Of course we can sell my wife's 6S 64Gb and my 6S Plus 64Gb, both had new 
batteries installed by Apple 6 months ago and are cosmetically virtually 
pristine with glass screen protectors and always in a slim but good protective 
case.
I had a look on eBay and I have seen mostly prices of around $300 Canadian for 
the 6S and $400 for the 6S Plus, even if we sell for a total of $500

Re: So much for keeping my iPhone 6S Plus for another year or two

2018-11-25 Thread Jen . 
How much are the wireless charging pads.
Jen

On Nov 25, 2018, at 1:00 AM, Sieghard Weitzel 
mailto:siegh...@live.ca>> wrote:

Well, my main employee/store manager who has the same plan from the same 
carrier, Koodo Mobil, here in Canada just told me he was about to upgrade his 
iPhone 6 because they were offering a really good deal on the iPhone 8 64 Gb.
I had a look and my wife and I decided this was too good of an opportunity to 
pass up so we have also ordered our iPhone 8, Gold for  y wife and Space Grey 
as usual for me.

For others here in Canada, here is the deal, this is from our perspective as 
already existing Koodo customers:
We pay $150 (Canadian of course) up front
Koodo then bills us an extra $15 per month on top of what we pay for our plan 
for a period of 2 years, i.e. $15 for 24 months = $360.
After the 2 years our monthly charge goes back to what we pay now which is $49 
for 6Gb of data and unlimited Canada wide calling and texting + regular voice 
mail, visual voice mail would be $2/month extra.
Total cost for the iPhone 8 64Gb after 2 years is $510 Canadian.

I just looked in the Apple Store app and if I were to buy an iPhone 8 64Gb 
directly from Apple it would cost $820 Canadian which means we get it for $310 
less.
Of course we can sell my wife's 6S 64Gb and my 6S Plus 64Gb, both had new 
batteries installed by Apple 6 months ago and are cosmetically virtually 
pristine with glass screen protectors and always in a slim but good protective 
case.
I had a look on eBay and I have seen mostly prices of around $300 Canadian for 
the 6S and $400 for the 6S Plus, even if we sell for a total of $500 for both 
phones that means it covers the $300 initial up front payment for the new 
phones and it leaves at least enough for 6 months of payments out of the 2 
years for both of us.
This means ultimately the new iPhone 8 will have cost me maybe $250 give or 
take $10 or $20. One factor why we decided to go for this deal is also that I 
though while in a year there might be a similarly good deal the value of our 6S 
and 6S Plus phones would be quite a bit less after another year.

I also scored some good deals on some wireless charging pads since apart from 
the better water proofness of the iPhone 8 the wireless charging is probably 
the feature I like the most.
I could have gotten an iPhone XR for $550 + the $15 a month, a total of $910 
after two years, but that isn't as much less as if I had bought one outright 
and we just didn't feel like spending that much. The iPhone 8 should do us for 
at least 3 to 4 years now just as our 6S phones did and by then OLED screens, 
Face Id will be old and established features and who knows, the phones in 3 
years may even have Face Id in addition to Touch Id which works wherever you 
touch the screen.

Regards,
Sieghard


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Re: So much for keeping my iPhone 6S Plus for another year or two

2018-11-25 Thread lenron brown 
That's a pretty sweet deal.

On 11/25/18, Sieghard Weitzel  wrote:
> Well, my main employee/store manager who has the same plan from the same
> carrier, Koodo Mobil, here in Canada just told me he was about to upgrade
> his iPhone 6 because they were offering a really good deal on the iPhone 8
> 64 Gb.
> I had a look and my wife and I decided this was too good of an opportunity
> to pass up so we have also ordered our iPhone 8, Gold for  y wife and Space
> Grey as usual for me.
>
> For others here in Canada, here is the deal, this is from our perspective as
> already existing Koodo customers:
> We pay $150 (Canadian of course) up front
> Koodo then bills us an extra $15 per month on top of what we pay for our
> plan for a period of 2 years, i.e. $15 for 24 months = $360.
> After the 2 years our monthly charge goes back to what we pay now which is
> $49 for 6Gb of data and unlimited Canada wide calling and texting + regular
> voice mail, visual voice mail would be $2/month extra.
> Total cost for the iPhone 8 64Gb after 2 years is $510 Canadian.
>
> I just looked in the Apple Store app and if I were to buy an iPhone 8 64Gb
> directly from Apple it would cost $820 Canadian which means we get it for
> $310 less.
> Of course we can sell my wife's 6S 64Gb and my 6S Plus 64Gb, both had new
> batteries installed by Apple 6 months ago and are cosmetically virtually
> pristine with glass screen protectors and always in a slim but good
> protective case.
> I had a look on eBay and I have seen mostly prices of around $300 Canadian
> for the 6S and $400 for the 6S Plus, even if we sell for a total of $500 for
> both phones that means it covers the $300 initial up front payment for the
> new phones and it leaves at least enough for 6 months of payments out of the
> 2 years for both of us.
> This means ultimately the new iPhone 8 will have cost me maybe $250 give or
> take $10 or $20. One factor why we decided to go for this deal is also that
> I though while in a year there might be a similarly good deal the value of
> our 6S and 6S Plus phones would be quite a bit less after another year.
>
> I also scored some good deals on some wireless charging pads since apart
> from the better water proofness of the iPhone 8 the wireless charging is
> probably the feature I like the most.
> I could have gotten an iPhone XR for $550 + the $15 a month, a total of $910
> after two years, but that isn't as much less as if I had bought one outright
> and we just didn't feel like spending that much. The iPhone 8 should do us
> for at least 3 to 4 years now just as our 6S phones did and by then OLED
> screens, Face Id will be old and established features and who knows, the
> phones in 3 years may even have Face Id in addition to Touch Id which works
> wherever you touch the screen.
>
> Regards,
> Sieghard
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