I take a huge number of photos with my phone. Things that will be treasured family memories in years to come. The better the camera, the happier I am. I've upgraded every year since the original iPhone and I don't regret a single upgrade.
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Any of you just keeping your iPhone until it dies?
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I take a huge number of photos with my phone. Things that will be treasured family memories in years to come. The better the camera, the happier I am. I've upgraded every year since the original iPhone and I don't regret a single upgrade.
Still have my 5s as I like the form factor. Don't care for the 6's..personal choice. Will wait for iOS 10 to see how it works on my 5s and if not happy with performance, will go with an SE. Don't care about 3d touch or camera specs. I generally just follow an upgrade cycle that fits my needs. Started with the original, but then skipped one generation. Only time I went to a one year was from 4 to 4s.
I use the iPhone 6s as a daily driver and I'll probably keep it a while. I kind of got tired of upgrading overtime the 'S' model was released.
Only here i can "see" people switching phones like socks, in real life most of the people around me using their phones for few years till its not function\broken.
I dont see any problem if she still rocking her 4s, my guess it's still doing everything she need, but looks like it's bother you on a daily bases...
Whoever that girl is...rock on!
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iPhones live too long?!
That statement takes the cake for stupidity.
The only iPhone that I've owned that didn't really last is the 3G. Just too underpowered. The 4 that I bought to replace it is in use by my brother in law. The 5 I bought to replace the 4 is in use by my father's wife. My 6 will be handed down when this fall's new phone comes out. I'm putting in a new battery in the 6. Seems flakey. No battery replacements for any of the older phones.
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Where the new phones come in handy is newer LTE bands. T-Mobile pretty much requires a 6s or later (or SE) for best coverage in many rural areas. My original LTE phone, the 5, is limited in LTE bands compared to the 6 (on ATT). So there are reasons to upgrade.
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Where the new phones come in handy is newer LTE bands. T-Mobile pretty much requires a 6s or later (or SE) for best coverage in many rural areas. My original LTE phone, the 5, is limited in LTE bands compared to the 6 (on ATT). So there are reasons to upgrade.
According to my research, most of T-Mobile LTE is Band 4 (AWS 1700/2100 MHz) in urban areas, with Band 2 (1900 MHz) being deployed as supplement to the old EDGE network in suburban/rural areas. Band 12 (700 MHz) is the newest deployment that is supposed to end the range/indoor coverage issues. That's the band that makes the 6s and SE a compelling upgrade for T-Mobile customers.
I won't be upgrading. I say it every year but I think me upgrading to the 6s plus is a regret. My regret was that I spent more money than I should have. I could have kept the iPhone 6plus and still be okay. But at least my husband got a new phone so it made sense to upgrade. We're going to still pay off our installment and by the time the upgrade rolls around I'm still making payments. Therefore I don't need to upgrade and will use the phone until it dies or software upgrade will no longer be reported.
True, but I figure the phone is not going to last as long as it will take for the carrier to start getting rid of older bands, so as long as the service is good when I buy it I don't have to worry. One of the main reasons why I haven't gone to T-Mobile.
I have no plans to upgrade right now. My 5s is working great and is fine for what I use it for. When I do upgrade I will be getting an SE.
I've had an iPhone since the 2007 (well, waited until Apple released a 16GB model). From the 2G-only iPhone to the iPhone 5, there was pretty significant performance and feature improvements so I was pretty much upgrading annually. Besides, we were on a family plan with 4 lines so 2 phones got replaced every year while the 2-year old models got handed down to relatives in a 3rd world country. For those of us in the US, traditional 2 year contracts meant it's kinda pointless to keep using the old iPhone beyond the 2-year mark while still continuing to pay the $450 baked-in device subsidy.
Nowadays with the installment plan/BYOD "phone line discount", I'd likely keep my iPhone 6 until the battery craps out on me. It's at that point where performance is still good enough and I expect will likely remain acceptable for my usage for a couple more years. I use a spare iPhone 5c when traveling overseas and I've found it to work surprisingly well on iOS 9 so I'm thinking the 6 should tide me over through iOS 11. I use the iPad more often than the iPhone anyway.
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Something I'd like to comment on the criticism against AT&T, AT&T hasn't sold 2G/GSM/GPRS/EDGE-only phones in years. Even their dumbphones are 3G-capable. One does not need to buy a $500+ smartphone in order to continue using service when AT&T shuts down 2G, a mere $20-50 dumbphone will suffice.
The thing is people are using tons more data nowadays and that's the networks' new cash cow. The old 2G bands need to be re-farmed for LTE use to support growing consumer demand for fast data access. Besides, this announcement is not new. I remember seeing a notification with my bill regarding the pending 2G shut down at least 2-3 years ago so it's not like a surprise or anything.
I'm keeping my 6 Plus for another 2 years. All my iPhone's last a long time. I usually upgrade every 2 years but now the AT&T is no longer offering 2 year subsidies I will hold into this phone. When I upgraded to the 6 Plus I sold my iP5 to fund the purchase. The 5 sold before the 6 arrived so I pulled my Original iPhone out of my desk, charged it, installed the sim from my old ip5 (with a sim adapter) and it worked for weeks until my iPhone 6 arrived.