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Definitely should have done more googling about the process. Hopefully I never have to send another email but now I know to prepare more. Have fun with the new phone!
I ordered at 8:02 am when it finally came online (from a preorder I did days earlier using my Wells Fargo business debit card with the Apple Upgrade Program and it did some weird charging stuff) and it charged for the last payment I owed (as the 12 Pro Max was released late in November last year) along with the sales tax, and after five days it disappeared from my charges, than the day later it charged back the sales tax and the first payment but didn’t charge the last payment until 2 days before it arrived.
I have the iPhone 13 Pro Max 1TB Graphite with AppleCare+ with Theft & Loss (even though I’ve never lost a phone) and the total price of the new phone (with our low 6.25% sales tax in Southwest Massachusetts) was $1868. Not a cheap device but it works very well and I’m now on iOS 15.1 beta 4.
the 12 Pro Max had issues, like in the first 3 months the maximum peak battery capacity dropped from 100% to 88% and then stayed at 88% until I traded it back in. Ever since it dropped to 88% my daily use time was less than advertised as I had one of the two battery suppliers (the bad one) for that phone. Also, Apple feedback engineers never listened to me (as usual) when I told them my iPhone storage says 0kb used when I was using over 300GB.
Fortunately, no such issues with this phone. It works like a champ so far. My only issue is that with T-Mobile having the nearest 5G tower 2 miles away (as it’s very rural here), I had to be switched to the LTE tower which gives me 4 bars. We have rolling power outages with wind and thunderstorms so I needed it because my Xfinity router and T-Mobile 4G LTE cell spot shut down when the power goes down.
The other day we were driving and in the 5G Extended Range (sub 6GHz) when the phone just says a plain “5G” I got 760Mbps/down and 86Mbps/up, whereas when my phone showed “5GUC” (with the smaller letters “U” on top of the “C”, directly to the right of the “5”) for 5G Ultra Capacity (which is the mmWave signal) I only got 702Mbps/down and 60Mbps/up (both Speedtests were at full 4 bars of reception) which left me quite surprised! My home internet speed is typically 335Mbps/down but only 11.8Mbps/up, so yeah, I wish I had 5G here.
So far they’ve been telling me for 3 YEARS NOW that they are still working on it!! So I always call them up and get huge bill credits. As of now my bill (which on the “Magenta 1.0 55+ Unlimited” plan with 2 lines is $70 per month but we have the EBB $50 low income government credit so it’s only $20 a month for my mother (66) and myself (42)) is -$89.71. She’s eligible for the age discount but I get the benefits as well, and each person per line gets free TV+ for a year which is very cool however I have free TV+ from an other source: my brother’s student ID for half price Apple Music, which comes with free AppleTV+ non-shareable, and the fact that I’ve bought and own 6 AppleTV boxes, all the way from the original TV (2nd Gen 720p) through the newest TV4K (2nd Gen with newest remote), counts for nothing and no additional years so I gave the older boxes to family members since it’s 1 year free per account, though I pretty much have unlimited TV+ for free with all my inclusions…
…((and because of the -$89.71 bill credit that’s 4 1/2 months for free! With the EBB low income discount that she has (and we live near each other) they won’t let us get the newer Magenta 55+ plan due to the EBB program (where the only differences are 100GB high speed vs. 50GB high speed usage before possible congestion per line and neither of us get anywhere near that as we both have and use our 4G LTE cell spots, but mostly T-Mobile WIFI, 5GB hotspot vs. 3GB hotspot per line, and Netflix crappy SD for one line vs. none for the other, which neither of us wants as we already have Netflix full streaming, and I’m the one who pays the bill and calls to get all the credits) so for $10 a month you can’t possibly beat it!
The ironic part is that we have both TV4K boxes (which I purchased so I have the newest one) but none of us yet have 4K TVs!!! I have a 14 year old, second generation Sony Bravia that was just below the XBR line, and it uses CCFL lighting which I find looks better than LED backlighting, and this 46” TV cost me $3,000 at the time and has genuine 120fps – but it was faulty and needed every circuit board replaced, TWICE, except the LCD panel. My mother and her husband have a 12 year old Sony Bravia with LED side lighting, and at least has an HDMI ARC port, not eARC (which mine doesn’t have) but their 55” was only $1300 and doesn’t have nearly the color quality mine has. Plus, that’s when Sony decided to put a glass panel in front to supposedly give it better contrast but all it does is add reflections. My 46” has no glass panel in front and just has the bare, matte LCD panel with no reflections. I find it ironic that my phone has an OLED with infinite contrast (or 2,000,000:1 as the specs say, but that is infinite) and my TV only has a 10,000:1 contrast ratio. That’s the only thing I don’t like about it.
So anyway…… 🙃
I have the iPhone 13 Pro Max 1TB Graphite with AppleCare+ with Theft & Loss (even though I’ve never lost a phone) and the total price of the new phone (with our low 6.25% sales tax in Southwest Massachusetts) was $1868. Not a cheap device but it works very well and I’m now on iOS 15.1 beta 4.
the 12 Pro Max had issues, like in the first 3 months the maximum peak battery capacity dropped from 100% to 88% and then stayed at 88% until I traded it back in. Ever since it dropped to 88% my daily use time was less than advertised as I had one of the two battery suppliers (the bad one) for that phone. Also, Apple feedback engineers never listened to me (as usual) when I told them my iPhone storage says 0kb used when I was using over 300GB.
Fortunately, no such issues with this phone. It works like a champ so far. My only issue is that with T-Mobile having the nearest 5G tower 2 miles away (as it’s very rural here), I had to be switched to the LTE tower which gives me 4 bars. We have rolling power outages with wind and thunderstorms so I needed it because my Xfinity router and T-Mobile 4G LTE cell spot shut down when the power goes down.
The other day we were driving and in the 5G Extended Range (sub 6GHz) when the phone just says a plain “5G” I got 760Mbps/down and 86Mbps/up, whereas when my phone showed “5GUC” (with the smaller letters “U” on top of the “C”, directly to the right of the “5”) for 5G Ultra Capacity (which is the mmWave signal) I only got 702Mbps/down and 60Mbps/up (both Speedtests were at full 4 bars of reception) which left me quite surprised! My home internet speed is typically 335Mbps/down but only 11.8Mbps/up, so yeah, I wish I had 5G here.
So far they’ve been telling me for 3 YEARS NOW that they are still working on it!! So I always call them up and get huge bill credits. As of now my bill (which on the “Magenta 1.0 55+ Unlimited” plan with 2 lines is $70 per month but we have the EBB $50 low income government credit so it’s only $20 a month for my mother (66) and myself (42)) is -$89.71. She’s eligible for the age discount but I get the benefits as well, and each person per line gets free TV+ for a year which is very cool however I have free TV+ from an other source: my brother’s student ID for half price Apple Music, which comes with free AppleTV+ non-shareable, and the fact that I’ve bought and own 6 AppleTV boxes, all the way from the original TV (2nd Gen 720p) through the newest TV4K (2nd Gen with newest remote), counts for nothing and no additional years so I gave the older boxes to family members since it’s 1 year free per account, though I pretty much have unlimited TV+ for free with all my inclusions…
…((and because of the -$89.71 bill credit that’s 4 1/2 months for free! With the EBB low income discount that she has (and we live near each other) they won’t let us get the newer Magenta 55+ plan due to the EBB program (where the only differences are 100GB high speed vs. 50GB high speed usage before possible congestion per line and neither of us get anywhere near that as we both have and use our 4G LTE cell spots, but mostly T-Mobile WIFI, 5GB hotspot vs. 3GB hotspot per line, and Netflix crappy SD for one line vs. none for the other, which neither of us wants as we already have Netflix full streaming, and I’m the one who pays the bill and calls to get all the credits) so for $10 a month you can’t possibly beat it!
The ironic part is that we have both TV4K boxes (which I purchased so I have the newest one) but none of us yet have 4K TVs!!! I have a 14 year old, second generation Sony Bravia that was just below the XBR line, and it uses CCFL lighting which I find looks better than LED backlighting, and this 46” TV cost me $3,000 at the time and has genuine 120fps – but it was faulty and needed every circuit board replaced, TWICE, except the LCD panel. My mother and her husband have a 12 year old Sony Bravia with LED side lighting, and at least has an HDMI ARC port, not eARC (which mine doesn’t have) but their 55” was only $1300 and doesn’t have nearly the color quality mine has. Plus, that’s when Sony decided to put a glass panel in front to supposedly give it better contrast but all it does is add reflections. My 46” has no glass panel in front and just has the bare, matte LCD panel with no reflections. I find it ironic that my phone has an OLED with infinite contrast (or 2,000,000:1 as the specs say, but that is infinite) and my TV only has a 10,000:1 contrast ratio. That’s the only thing I don’t like about it.
So anyway…… 🙃
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