Thanks! I have been all over the place today cuz of this forum, not just my thread, even canceled and now just reordered. I am excited to get this my main thing was 32gb, my iPhone 4 has lasted and will go to my husband. All I do is check email, call and text, take a few FB pics. I am in healthcare and have some medical apps that are big so wanted the 32. Thanks for being kind and helpful!
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5c - am I the only one happy to have ordered?
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Thanks! I have been all over the place today cuz of this forum, not just my thread, even canceled and now just reordered. I am excited to get this my main thing was 32gb, my iPhone 4 has lasted and will go to my husband. All I do is check email, call and text, take a few FB pics. I am in healthcare and have some medical apps that are big so wanted the 32. Thanks for being kind and helpful!
Hear me out on this because I'm a Note 2 Android lover. One of the best things about owning an iPhone is it's accessory lineup especially the case selection. I've seen so many nice cases for the iPhone 5 it makes me jealous. And for me I always buy a case for my phone because I like the protection. So when people want to buy a plastic colored iPhone knowing that iPhone 5 already has some of the best cases that will fit the iPhone 5s it just does not make sense why someone would want a year old iPhone in a plastic body. For $100 more you get the newest flagship with tons of cases to select from.
I'm about to go to dinner with my wife right now and it will cost me $50. I won't even remember what I ate 2 days from now. But for a phone your locked in a two year contract with a device you will use on a daily basis. That $100 seems small doesn't. And that's coming from an Android fanboy.
I'm about to go to dinner with my wife right now and it will cost me $50. I won't even remember what I ate 2 days from now. But for a phone your locked in a two year contract with a device you will use on a daily basis. That $100 seems small doesn't. And that's coming from an Android fanboy.
^^ Makes perfect sense, except for me when it comes to the part where I say "but see I don't WANT the 5S, I want the 5C".
I think some people need to accept that different people will have different reasons to choose different phones - price is one factor but not the only one, neither is processor speed.
I for one would never choose a phone based on the number of cases available but apparently for others that's a big deal!
At the end of the day these are very personal devices - the most personal computer most people carry - and I can completely understand the personal appeal of the 5C over the 5S for some people regardless of price. Both are very capable handsets and the performance advantage of the S is *not* the be-all-and-end-all for everyone that some assume it is. And I say all this as a happy 5 owner who is upgrading to neither.
I for one would never choose a phone based on the number of cases available but apparently for others that's a big deal!
At the end of the day these are very personal devices - the most personal computer most people carry - and I can completely understand the personal appeal of the 5C over the 5S for some people regardless of price. Both are very capable handsets and the performance advantage of the S is *not* the be-all-and-end-all for everyone that some assume it is. And I say all this as a happy 5 owner who is upgrading to neither.
I did offer my Fiancee the choice 5C or keep my 5 and me buying the 5S. She wants the 5C ( she likes Pink things) and is basically getting a 5 in a plastic exterior anyway It makes sense to sell my 5 now at the top of the market and with all it's AC remaining.
I'm looking forward to my 5S..Particularly the camera, as I have recently started using it a lot more It's way more capable than I thought.
always disliked the hard-edged 5, on top of it being so delicate you were afraid to slide it across the table or bend it in your pants pocket.
just now ordered the yellow/black 5C and am as excited at i was when i ordered my first iPhone 3GS. screw all the elitist haters. they can have their champagne iPhone while they look down on all the lowly masses.
just now ordered the yellow/black 5C and am as excited at i was when i ordered my first iPhone 3GS. screw all the elitist haters. they can have their champagne iPhone while they look down on all the lowly masses.
This is why we have so many choices in the USA. I am one of those people who don't understand why others don't make the same choices I do
, but I hesitate to be critical of anyone who chooses the 5c. There's something about the marketing of it that makes it appealing. It's not for me, but that decision was only made after spending hours debating the pros and cons of both the 5c and the 5s.On a somewhat humorous note, after I made the decision that the 5s was for me, I asked my two daughters (21 and 18) which I should get. Within seconds after sending the text, the response was simply 5s. Even though both girls are die hard Apple fans, I wouldn't have been surprised if they would have said 5c.
Just ordered the 5c in blue as a surprise upgrade from the 4 for the Wife. Just the LTE alone is worth $99
My cases have shipped! They're coming Thursday, day before the green 5C gets here. I got black for everyday and yellow for those November days when the mountains block out most of that super-low arc of light we used to know as the sun.
They're coming Thursday, day before the green 5C gets here. I got black for everyday and yellow for those November days when the mountains block out most of that super-low arc of light we used to know as the sun.
I ordered two iPhone 5C's from T-Mobile. One is white which is for me and the other is blue which is for my fiancée. The reasons are simple. I never did and still don't like the design of the iPhone 5. I do like the ring they put around the home button and the TouchID of the 5S, but I have had a 5 and I know that it runs perfect. It's fast... Very fast. I also know that the 5C is going to most likely be more durable as well and with the type of job I have I need a phone that don't have to be babied as much. I baby my phones a lot though... Lol... My fiancée likes the 5C better anyway because of the colors of course...
I'm very happy that I ordered them and honestly I don't care if someone says "it's last years tech." To be truthful most people saying that has a "scuffed" up iPhone 5 and LOVE it... So what difference does it make if someone wants plastic instead if a phone that's going to damage easy? None... Especially when it's basically the same phone with a different shell...
I'm very happy that I ordered them and honestly I don't care if someone says "it's last years tech." To be truthful most people saying that has a "scuffed" up iPhone 5 and LOVE it... So what difference does it make if someone wants plastic instead if a phone that's going to damage easy? None... Especially when it's basically the same phone with a different shell...
i think it's how playful and fun you still feel about things. i don't look on my phone as a stodgy business tool or that it has to have the up-to-the-second tech, but more of something to have a little fun with.This is why we have so many choices in the USA. I am one of those people who don't understand why others don't make the same choices I do
On a somewhat humorous note, after I made the decision that the 5s was for me, I asked my two daughters (21 and 18) which I should get. Within seconds after sending the text, the response was simply 5s. Even though both girls are die hard Apple fans, I wouldn't have been surprised if they would have said 5c.
clicking through the colors, white seems to wash everything out. that's why i'm glad they went with the black face instead of white. up to you though...
Wow you sure are indecisive. I still think it's a mistake to get the 5c due to it being slightly cheaper. In a year your specs will be 2 years old
Please save your Predictable and Irrational lecture for someone else. People have a right to do as they wish with their money.
I blasted the 5C in an earlier post, but after giving it more thought I'm coming around to the idea and may get one this week to use in rotation with my T-Mobile GS4. Given that it is steel reinforced polycarbonate, I'm starting to see it as an upgrade to all other "premium" looking iPhones. My iPhone 5 bent after three weeks of use. if it has the same specs as the 5, 549 is not too bad for a new iPhone.
Maybe just maybe this was Apple's intent in the first place. They may have purposely created iP5C in colors to appeal to select audience, with a limited upgrade in features and used plastic to get customers to upgrade themselves to the 5S rather than the 5C. Maybe they only want the 5S to be the only iPhone sold in high volumes.
People keep saying that. It doesn't make sense if you happen to want the colors of the 5C (or the plastic-over-steel body).
It's a choice. What makes more sense is what you prefer, not some arbitrary thumb-on-scale tilt towards the most advanced tech spec.
Since I am in the S cycle usually, and only upgrade every 2 years, then I may prefer the lower end of Apple's new 2-phone rollouts. It's not that I don't want the tech, it's that I'm willing to see what they do with the high end thing of the S cycle when they refine it in the next primary cycle. I think that the 5C is a better phone that the 5 was, for instance, and not least for the body and colors. Certainly for me coming from 4S the chip bump is wonderful as well (else why would I bother; the 4S is a nice looking phone and has worked well). So I don't need the 5S this time and will consider how it has evolved by time I next upgrade.