One more reason you should try and stay fairly current with your smart
phone is because they yusually make improvements to the hardware such as
improving the radios in the phone with respect to cellular performance
and features, wifi performance and features, and yes even bluetooth
performance.
An example of this is the iPhone 5 versas the iPhone 6 series.
The new voice over LTE protocol is only available on the 6 series.
Also LTE performance is better on the 6 because it allows for more
frequency choices.
LTE became available on the iPhone 5 and was not available on the 4 I
don't think.
remember 3 years in the computer /tech world may be more like 6 to 10 years.
In effect your not throwing away money because your ditching your phone
after 2 or 3 years since its more like 6 to 10 years old at that point
if you get my drift.
Sorry not expressing myself as well as I would like.
Quite tired today.
Don
On 1/2/2015 10:36 AM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
If you can afford it, it's always a good idea to buy the newest model available
at the time. This would be a 6 or 6 Plus at this point and which one you choose
would depend entirely on your preference with respect to the size of the phone.
The 6 Plus is very big, but it does have the advantage of a big battery and
hence very good battery life (at least for an iPhone).
Just keep in mind that it's unlikely you have any smartphone for 7 years as you
did your old phone. I think for most people 4 or at the most 5 years is the
maximum lifetime of a phone nowadays since after that time you'll run into
issues where your OS may not support new apps and so on. Of course batteries
degrade over time and may not hold much of a charge any more and it's typically
not worth spending $100 or more to pay somebody to put a new battery into, for
example, an iPhone 3GS which is now the model of iPhone which if somebody had
bought it at its release in the summer of 2009 would be now 5 and a half years
old. It wouldn't even make sense if you had an iPhone 4 from 2010 although I
know people who do have those and I'm always surprised how well they still do
hold their charge.
Buying an unlocked phone at full price would only make sense if you are able to
get an inexpensive plan from an MVNO where you only pay $30 or $40 a months so
that the $40 or $50 you save each months add up to a large enough amount over
what would be your normal 2-year contract period that you actually save money
in the end.
Regards,
Sieghard
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Deidre Muccio
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2015 5:49 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: My Recent Experience upgrading from a 5 S to an iPhone 6 Plus,
With One Question
Every time I read something like this it pushes me farther towards going
further towards a later model and version of a phone. This report was
excellent. Meanwhile my old cell phone which is 7 years old has a charger or
contact point for charging that is now defective. Question is do I run around
to the Verizon store to see what deal or spiel they give me, get on the phone
or just go down to Apple! I sure would prefer an unlocked phone, and I don't
want to be thinking of needing to do any significant upgrading once I do get a
new phone. I wish you guys (b's and g's) lived or worked next door!
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
M. Taylor
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2015 3:35 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: My Recent Experience upgrading from a 5 S to an iPhone 6 Plus, With
One Question
Hello Everyone and Happy New Year!
Three days ago, I purchased a 128GB unlocked T-Mobile iPhone 6 Plus.
The first thing I did, even before leaving the Apple Store, was to insert an A T
& T Wireless SIM card, just to make certain it was truly unlocked (smile). I
also had a sales person put on a screen protector.
After returning home, I restored the phone from my 5 S and I was amazed at how
complete the restoration was, given that my backup was not encrypted.
The six plus is so fast that what, in the past at least, has taken up to 25
minutes to complete, only took approximately 15 minutes. The Restore was so
thorough that it automatically put the new phone in Field Test mode. For those
who may not know, field test mode allows one to toggle the cell signal
indicator between either bars or numbers as a percentage of decibel strength.
At the time of purchase, the phone came with iOS 8.1.1. So, when I got home, I
updated to iOS 8.1.2.
Now what I find fascinating is that, although on virtually every 6 Plus I used
until this one, I could not use VoiceOver to summarily clear notifications as I
did on my 5 S running 7.1.2. At the time of this post, I have tested or
assisted in the purchase or setting up of no fewer than 20 iPhone sixes or 6
Pluses.
On a whim and for no good reason that I can recall, on my new 6 plus, I
single-finger, double-tapped on the Clear-All buttons in the Notifications
Table and, each time, doing so cleared all of the notifications just as it does
in iOS 7.1.2. Why does it work on this device? I have no idea. I'm just glad
it does work for deleting each item in the Notifications Table can take a lot,
relatively speaking, of time to complete.
At any given time, I have access to, including my own device, 3 6 plusses.
Earlier today, I laid them down side-by-side and compared the Settings options.
What I discovered is that, to my astonishment, not all iPHones are created
equally.
I don't know why, exactly, but there are some settings options differences between
the T-Mobile, Sprint, and A T & T versions of the 6 plus. I have not
thoroughly examined the Settings area of the Verizon Wireless 6 Plus.
I will not bore you with the minor details but the one that stands out in my
mind is located in the Cellular settings area with regard to accessing LTE
voice and data. It's probably of no significance but still ... My T-Mobile
plus has more options allowing for greater definitions.
Let's see, anything else? Oh yeah, although I am running iTunes 12 on my Mac,
the Windows 7 PC, to which I sync my 6 plus is still running iTunes 11; it
appears to be working just fine so I will not update to 12 unless or until it
is absolutely necessary.
My two newest favorite features of iOS 8.1.2 would have to be Predictive text
and SMS forwarding to my Mac.
By the way, I was thinking about downloading the Alex TTS in addition to
Samantha. Does anyone know if you can delete the Alex TTS voice from the
device, should you choose? If so, how?
Finally, for the beta testers among us, aside from having to reinstall various
profile definitions, there have been no glitches in my upgrading from a 5 S to
a 6 Plus.
I have decided to leave my 5 S at iOS 7.1.2.
In conclusion, I am totally delighted with my 6 Plus and, as yet anyway, have
not encountered any VoiceOver bugs with any of the third-party or native apps I
used on my 5 S, with the exception of Safari.
Oh, the Apple Maps app is fast becoming one of my Favorites to use on a regular
basis. This was definitely not the case in IOS 7.1.2. While I'm not saying that I
would choose it over A T & T Navigator, I am saying that, as a free solution,
so to speak, it is now a viable option and fun to use.
I hope some of you find this report helpful.
Again, Happy New Year to everyone.
Mark
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