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iPhone 4 owners - will you upgrade to iOS6 if you're getting iPhone 5?

AppFanGirl

AppFanGirl

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Sep 19, 2012
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If you are in the process of getting an iPhone 5, will you go through the process to upgrade your existing iPhone to iOS6? Is there any benefit to doing the upgrade if you plan to ditch your phone in a few days?
 
Yep, I'm selling my 4 on Saturday as been given a healthy amount for it, and as the person I am selling it to is a technophobe, figured it would be a good idea for it to be as up to date as possible!
 
shmonkus said:
Yep, I'm selling my 4 on Saturday as been given a healthy amount for it, and as the person I am selling it to is a technophobe, figured it would be a good idea for it to be as up to date as possible!
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Unless he wants to jailbreak it, then you screwed him.
 
nostresshere said:
Unless he wants to jailbreak it, then you screwed him.
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How so? I'm genuinely intrigued how upgrading to OS6 will screw him on the phone. Unless you are referring to the maps application and Youtube, I see your point though.

He doesn't intend to jailbreak it, I've unlocked it so he can use it on any carrier of his choice so he just needs to put his SIM into the device
 
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Leaving my iPhone 4 at 5.1.1 with 1.59 baseband until iOS6 gets Jailbroken.
 
No, I will not because some of the things I want to try like Flyover, Panorama, and navigation wont work on my 4. My 5 will be here Friday so I'll try it out then. I will also lose my jailbreak. I'm turning in my AT&T iPhone 4 into Sprint for a nice credit that will offset my bill for a couple of months.
 
I would recommend it. The GM brought my 4 back up to IOS4 speed levels. (no scientific assement there, its just a lot snappier than IOS5).
 
Mine is JB and will be keeping it as a backup, but I think I will still be updating so I can check out some of the new features. Will be a long wait for the JB package to be available on the 5. Going to be strange using it in the standard format.
 
I've been rocking the betas on my iPhone

But my phone is drugedly slow at times

Aww well it's old and getting the 5 on Friday !
 
I may be wrong, but don't you have to have the same IOS version to do a restore? So if you want to restore your new phone from the old one, you would have to be running IOS6?
 
Will be updating my iPhone 4 and iPad 2 in the next 2ish hours. Have the 5 coming on Friday as well. I like to be semi familiar with the new OS before I get a new device.
 
shmonkus said:
Yep, I'm selling my 4 on Saturday as been given a healthy amount for it, and as the person I am selling it to is a technophobe, figured it would be a good idea for it to be as up to date as possible!
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if he is such a technophobe, why is he buying an outdated old phone? just curious. those are the type of people camping first in line
 
richpuer said:
if he is such a technophobe, why is he buying an outdated old phone? just curious. those are the type of people camping first in line
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Because he's about to go travelling for 2 years, and it makes sense to have an old phone rather than risking a brand new phone when travelling the far east.
 
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