It was only the latest and greatest if you consider Apple's products only. There were plenty of later and greater phones that came out in that time period...
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After JB and Unlocking My 4s, I'm Selling It !!!
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It was only the latest and greatest if you consider Apple's products only. There were plenty of later and greater phones that came out in that time period...
Considering that the OP stated, "I had no idea the 3gs would come out 5 months later, and I had no idea the 4 would come out the following june when I still had 6 months left...", I think it's safe to only consider Apple products.
Why did you feel the need to make a thread? So... Your switching to andriod, lots of people do that. Who cares?
I was comparing a guy not knowing about carrierIQ to a guy making it his life's mission to convert Apple users to Android users. I wasn't saying Jare was correct, I was smashing stealthipad for calling Jare's ignorance sad when all stealthipad does is post all day like Google is paying him.
Enjoy having your information sold to advertisers and installing an Anti-Virus on your phone.
So true! haha, idk why your comment was downranked..
LOL this thread made me laugh. I don't understand the big deal. No matter what brand you get, there will be a newer better one around the corner. If you keep waiting for the next best one, then you'll spend your life waiting.
Personally, I prefer to enjoy my stuff and not worry about always having the latest and greatest. Then eventually when I'm ready to upgrade, I do.
Personally, I prefer to enjoy my stuff and not worry about always having the latest and greatest. Then eventually when I'm ready to upgrade, I do.
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Wait a sec. Your going to samsung's phones because you don't want the phone you buy to be instantly succeeded? Do you know how many phones that company pumps out?
Wait a sec. Your going to samsung's phones because you don't want the phone you buy to be instantly succeeded? Do you know how many phones that company pumps out?
its not the same phone at all. faster processor, more ram, new graphics card, more memory, better camera, new antenna design. The only thing not change, was the actually looks of the phone. who cares what it looks like, the other things are what is important. the fact that you aren't looking at what's below the surface says a lot about you and what is important to you?
Would you have been happy if it was the exact same innards of the 4 but with a new outer case? Because that would be a sucky phone that I would be disappointed in.
You OP says you have a 4S, now you are complaining because you have the latest and greatest but it looks the same as the phone from the previous year....again who cares about looks.
Im slowly reading through an laughing at your arguments. There maybe several comments in a row from me as I mock your whining.
It's funny android fanboys try to say the battery "problems" the iPhone 4S has is a reason not to get it when even with the problems, it still has a better battery life then most android phone available (stock). I personally have no problems with my battery on my 4S and find that the battery is better then the 4 that my wife has now.
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you bought the latest and greatest phone available 7 months after launch. At that time the 3G actually was the latest and greatest, there were no android phone any where near it. So you had the latest and greatest for 5 months until the 3GS came out.That's funny, I thought you would read the OP before commenting -
(my 3g was 7 months old when I bought it, and it took 17 months to re-launch the 2yo 4)
Then you bought a 4S somewhere a month or so after it came out. I don't think in the month after release any phone was reviewed and stated to be better so again you had the latest and greatest. I'm not even sure what phone is the latest and greatest now, but if it isn't the 4S the 4S is still in the top 4 or 5.
OP wants the SGS3, which will be introduced at MWC 2012, Feb.27. That's a year after the SGS2 was introduced at MWC 2011. The Galaxy S line is what goes up against the iPhone. It gets updated yearly. Does a yearly cycle seem to quick to you? Maybe someone needs to ask you, Do you have any clue how many phones phones it pumps out in direct competition to the iphone? I'm guessing you're one of the blind loyalist who believes that Samsung is putting out a new Galaxy S phone every month. So by that logic, Samsung must be on the Galaxy S13 by now.
This fourm is for learning and helping others with your iPhone, NOT TO RANT ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCE, AND ALL YOUR PERSONAL DRAMA!
So when Apple decided they needed an extra 6 months this time around, you knew it was going to be a repackaged 4, and not a totally new iphone5?
I can't beleive you knew this and didn't share it with the rest of the community,
(you could have saved many of us from huge dissapointment)
Do what I do:
Wait until there is an official JB/Unlock. Sell your iPhone on eBay unlocked before the next release. I normally average about $375 for the sale. Apply that sale to the new iPhone (~$599 w/o contract), which equates to roughly the amount paid for the $199 16GB (current) 4S. You have a new iPhone every year and you are not contracted and beholden to a company. This way, you are not stuck in the 2 year contract cycle (which I understand was frustrating for some 3GS and 4S owners as they believed - perhaps correctly - that those updates were not as "golden" as the 3G and 4 models).
Apple will always play their cards close to their chest, so we will never know ahead of time what will be released to the consumer public. Love it or hate it, technology changes faster than some peoples undergarments (slight exaggeration). I can confidently state the iPhone 5 that was due for last year but shelved due to LTE battery drain will be available this Autumn (which would bridge the issue of simultaneous voice + data for iPhone owners on non-AT&T Wireless networks) Perhaps wait it out
Good luck!
Wait until there is an official JB/Unlock. Sell your iPhone on eBay unlocked before the next release. I normally average about $375 for the sale. Apply that sale to the new iPhone (~$599 w/o contract), which equates to roughly the amount paid for the $199 16GB (current) 4S. You have a new iPhone every year and you are not contracted and beholden to a company. This way, you are not stuck in the 2 year contract cycle (which I understand was frustrating for some 3GS and 4S owners as they believed - perhaps correctly - that those updates were not as "golden" as the 3G and 4 models).
Apple will always play their cards close to their chest, so we will never know ahead of time what will be released to the consumer public. Love it or hate it, technology changes faster than some peoples undergarments (slight exaggeration). I can confidently state the iPhone 5 that was due for last year but shelved due to LTE battery drain will be available this Autumn (which would bridge the issue of simultaneous voice + data for iPhone owners on non-AT&T Wireless networks) Perhaps wait it out
Good luck!
so you expect us to believe you've been a forum member here since September! the 4S was released in October! ..and you didn't know what you were getting before signing a two year contract?
here's what I think you're issue is: your 'friends' have Android devices! they've somehow brainwashed you into believing your new 4S is an old re-hash and not the latest & greatest! they will allow you into their cult only when you have the same device as them.
solution: keep the iPhone & get new friends.
here's what I think you're issue is: your 'friends' have Android devices! they've somehow brainwashed you into believing your new 4S is an old re-hash and not the latest & greatest! they will allow you into their cult only when you have the same device as them.
solution: keep the iPhone & get new friends.
Your words make zero sense, clearly you didn't bother to read the OP
Actually almost all of my friends have iphones, and I even talked my neighbor into selling his Evo, (after I replaced the cracked lcd and the digitizer) and getting an iphone4, (and he loves it).
I have bragged about iphones for years now, and just because I am dissapointed with the relabled 4, doesn't give folks the right to BASH me for it -
Your words are wreckless and without any merit, thanks for your participation.
It's a phone. If you don't like the phone you have, get rid of it and get a different one. This should probably not amount to the apparent major crisis in your life you've made it out to be.
I read the OP - twice - and my findings are as follows ...Your words make zero sense, clearly you didn't bother to read the OP
...Your words are wreckless and without any merit ...
P.S: that's reckless.
I read the OP - twice - and my findings are as follows ...
P.S: that's reckless.
It's nice to finally meet a teenager from the UK, ur pretty kewl
(hit me up if you ever come state side)
I'd much rather 'hit up' someone that had a clue, but thanks for the offer... and I'm only twelve.It's nice to finally meet a teenager from the UK, ur pretty kewl
(hit me up if you ever come state side)
and I'm only twelve.
I'm sure I'm not the only one here who believes you, you're good -