Hello, well the wife surprised me with an iphone 5c so I am beginning my transition to ios. Good phones are very expensive here, iphones a couple hundred dollars more than us, so they are harder for us to get. Even in toluca you do not see many high end phones or especially iphones. Going contract is very expensive and something like 85% here go amigo, pay as you go, as you can get by on 100-150 pesos a month as receiving calls is free, just outgoing you get charged for.
Stores like Coppel sell so you can make payments. They cost more but still less than contract with telcel. Coppel only carries the 5c and 4 as their iphones. They have no good model android phones, low end or chinese brand. This was the best choice phone for the only way I could upgrade.
My sgs2 is about 3 years old, long in the tooth and has quit charging. I'm not sure how much life is left in it and it will become a teenagers phone with 3 batteries and charger.
Things I like with the iphone. Airplay, period. I love it with my atv3, it's great. The size will take some getting used to. It's tiny. I don't get some say that smaller is better, if it was people would be watching 16" TV's. My hands and fingers are large and it's hard for me to not hit double keys typing unless I watch very close. Thumb typing is out with my big thumb, so the one hand argument is moot.
I miss widgets and ability to customize, but I don't consider either a big deal. I am getting older and care less about "tweaking" than I used to.
The iphone is smooth, simple and since I have already been using itunes iit fit right in. There is virtually no learning curve.
All in all the trade off is size and I think I can live with it since I have airplay. I have atv in the bedroom and I can d everything on my phone at home through it and it's sweet.
Last thing is do I or will I regret the change? I don't and don't think I will. I think I will get used to the size and there are already other things I like a lot. I think it AND the wife are both keepers and I see one for her later on.
I hope I did not boor everyone with the info leading to the phones, just though I would post how some of us unlucky saps have it that do not live in the us and technology is very expensive.
Stores like Coppel sell so you can make payments. They cost more but still less than contract with telcel. Coppel only carries the 5c and 4 as their iphones. They have no good model android phones, low end or chinese brand. This was the best choice phone for the only way I could upgrade.
My sgs2 is about 3 years old, long in the tooth and has quit charging. I'm not sure how much life is left in it and it will become a teenagers phone with 3 batteries and charger.
Things I like with the iphone. Airplay, period. I love it with my atv3, it's great. The size will take some getting used to. It's tiny. I don't get some say that smaller is better, if it was people would be watching 16" TV's. My hands and fingers are large and it's hard for me to not hit double keys typing unless I watch very close. Thumb typing is out with my big thumb, so the one hand argument is moot.
I miss widgets and ability to customize, but I don't consider either a big deal. I am getting older and care less about "tweaking" than I used to.
The iphone is smooth, simple and since I have already been using itunes iit fit right in. There is virtually no learning curve.
All in all the trade off is size and I think I can live with it since I have airplay. I have atv in the bedroom and I can d everything on my phone at home through it and it's sweet.
Last thing is do I or will I regret the change? I don't and don't think I will. I think I will get used to the size and there are already other things I like a lot. I think it AND the wife are both keepers and I see one for her later on.
I hope I did not boor everyone with the info leading to the phones, just though I would post how some of us unlucky saps have it that do not live in the us and technology is very expensive.
