Don’t buy 3rd party refurbs. That doesn’t mean anything. Only apple refurbs.
The 15pro 128gb starts new at 920€ ebay or 1000€ amazon in Germany. And it has USBC 3.1 speed
Yeah the max is 150€ more
I'm having a look at Apple refurbs too. But they are much more expensive. Maybe I'll have a look at Amazon, from eBay I'm out since many years. was always too much hassle. Also it has to be at least 256GB.
But as I said, i want a cheap phone with a big display. I purchased a refurbed SE 2022 with 256GB in April for 450 Euro and a 2020 with 256 for 205 Euro. The speed of the 2020 is more then enough for me.
I just need a second phone with a bigger screen, so I got two (gave one to my brother) 8 Plus with also 256 GB for about 150-160 Euro too at the same time, ordered all at once with an iPad Air 3 and iPad 9.
The main reason for the 8 Plus and SE an those iPads was keeping TouchID and Home Button. I don't need better cameras and all this stuff and FaceID would be disabled.
When I get one for cheap with a big screen I don't need the others anymore, but keep 2 as spare phones, what I always had. They will replace the 4s with a good and 5 with a dead battery.
My main phone in the last years was an SE 2016 what I used for almost nothing, I also had a 6 Plus but gave it to my brother, when he smashed his 6. My original 8 Plus has my mother since 5 years because I was too sick and it was just lying around. He got the second 8 Plus now, because he had a space problem on his Xs with only 64GB. It was supposed for my mum, that when her's get a problem or lost after using it so long, she doesn't need to learn anything new. I am always giving away my phones for free to family members, but wouldn't pay much for my own, if I feel I don't need it.
I don't want to pay for things I don't use. And the port is a thing I would use for Backup to Mac, Ethernet and external drives not only for charging. But a 15 Pro (Max) with at least 256 GB is not worth the price for only a faster port and without TouchID and tuned off FaceID. So I'll just wait.
Eidt: If I new shortly after those purchases, I'll get back into beta testing again and I knew about all this stuff with 3rd-party AppStores and that I would like iOS 18 very much, I might have acted differently in April. But it was shortly after that when I began testing iOS 17.x betas after years of not even updating at all. I didn't have the port in mind at that time too.
