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Worth upgrading from a 5?

Choices :P

  • Get a 5C

    Votes: 5 2.7%

  • Get a 5S

    Votes: 84 45.9%

  • Stay with a 5

    Votes: 94 51.4%
  • Total voters
    183
That's another thing I forgot to point out.
I'm on PAYG, so if I was to do anything, it would be coming out of my own pocket, not as an upgrade on a contract.

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My first idea was get the 5S to retain value... As soon as the 6 is out my current 5 will be worth barely anything in comparison to now.
 
chumps52 said:
That's another thing I forgot to point out.
I'm on PAYG, so if I was to do anything, it would be coming out of my own pocket, not as an upgrade on a contract.

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My first idea was get the 5S to retain value... As soon as the 6 is out my current 5 will be worth barely anything in comparison to now.
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I'm in the same boat - after considering it though, I'd have to take a £200ish hit to upgrade. Probably going to spend that on a new iPad and get the 6 next year.

One plus of upgrading every other year is that the upgrades seem bigger when you get a new phone :p
 
cambookpro said:
I'm in the same boat - after considering it though, I'd have to take a £200ish hit to upgrade. Probably going to spend that on a new iPad and get the 6 next year.

One plus of upgrading every other year is that the upgrades seem bigger when you get a new phone :p
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Yeah... I'll probably just wait, and hope that the value of this phone hasn't gone down too much.
 
Comes down to personal taste. Do you always need the newest tech? Can you afford changing devices every year? Your answer lies there
 
Then you already know the answer. My gf also wants to upgrade, but she knows financially it doesn't add up just yet. She will keep her current phone and when finances are in order she will buy a new phone. It's all about living in our means.
 
Ih8reno said:
Then you already know the answer. My gf also wants to upgrade, but she knows financially it doesn't add up just yet. She will keep her current phone and when finances are in order she will buy a new phone. It's all about living in our means.
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Haha yep ok ;)
 
I think the people that are upgrading from the 5 to 5s are either people with too much money or people that want to keep up with the joneses.

Its highly unlikely that you will notice the improvements of the cpu. So you can scratch that of your list. Camera improvements can never be a good reason to upgrade. And the fingerprint offers something that already exists on current iphones.

Iphone 5s is a good phone but not worth it if you already have a 5
 
surjavarman said:
Its highly unlikely that you will notice the improvements of the cpu. So you can scratch that of your list. Camera improvements can never be a good reason to upgrade. And the fingerprint offers something that already exists on current iphones.
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Here is why I totally and respectfully disagree:

The 5s has a new A7/M7 chip with constant motion sensors.

What if the 5s can support the upcoming iWatch by constantly talking to it via bluetooth and the M7 without wasting CPU and battery?

What if the 5c cannot support the iWatch that good?

This, in my opinion, is Apple's great secret about the 5s.
 
tymaster50 said:
I'm still not exactly clear on what the 64 bit processor is but for average users I'm guessing it won't be a night and day difference. It's not like everyone plays infinity blade on their phones all day lol
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It helps if you have to do math with very large integers like keeping track of the national debt.
 
the only notable differences between the 5 and 5C are the plastic chassis and slightly better battery life. It's a side-grade at best.

5S is an upgrade, no doubt, but are the dual LEDs, fingerprint scanner, and whatever really worth the upgrade cost? It depends.

To me, this is a tick tock cycle. Tick = big jump, tock = marginal improvement - the 4 and the 5 are ticks, and the S/C versions are tocks.
 
So many threads asking this question. However if I was you I would stick with the iPhone 5. I have the iPhone 5 too and have no plans in getting the 5S. When iOS 7 comes out you will feel you will have a new phone with the new iOS. I know I am going to be feeling that way.
 
I'm just going to stick with my 5 and wait for the 6 personally. And @abz1981 I already have iOS 7 :p
 
OneMike said:
iPhone 4 is my backup phone and I have been using that through all betas and the GM iOS 7. It's not bad.
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I'm on a 4 running the GM right now and I agree that if you take Safari, for example, the speed is absolutely okay - that is, after the page has been fully loaded. Scrolling down pages, panning, zooming, it all works even faster, I feel, than on iOS 6. But the transitions are aweful. Switching between apps isn't as fluid, so when the multitasking view has been loaded, again, its speed is just fine. But as soon as you choose another app, the time it needs to be loaded is just way longer than on iOS 6. In a way it feels like my iPhone's RAM was halved by the new OS, very few apps stay in the background. Actually, I can't even imagine the new OS to be that much more memory-hungry. I mean basically it's still the same, right? Just with a lot of new makeup. And maybe it's just Apple's way of telling the user that it's really about time they upgrade their device. Planned obsolescence. But other manufacturers are much worse here, so I'm not too disappointed. I'm also upgrading to an iPhone 5, used from eBay :) It'll be shipped next week. Well, I hope it will.
 
pmau said:
What if the 5s can support the upcoming iWatch by constantly talking to it via bluetooth and the M7 without wasting CPU and battery?

What if the 5c cannot support the iWatch that good?
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Not discounting this possibility, however a user can wait to see if the rumored watch materializes at all. If it does and the use case is compelling enough, one can upgrade at that time. Right now, it would be taking the plunge for an uncertain possibility.
 
No. Absolutely not. Unless you have so much money you don't know what to do with it.
 
Buying a 5S (I don't consider it an upgrade) would be a colossal mistake.

The phone most everyone will want is iPhone 6. There's also a very good possibility the 5S product cycle will be short, with the iPhone 6 being released months ahead of past practices.
 
pmau said:
Here is why I totally and respectfully disagree:

The 5s has a new A7/M7 chip with constant motion sensors.

What if the 5s can support the upcoming iWatch by constantly talking to it via bluetooth and the M7 without wasting CPU and battery?

What if the 5c cannot support the iWatch that good?

This, in my opinion, is Apple's great secret about the 5s.
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Yea, cuz everyone needs to know how many steps they take in a day, right?

"Hmmm, I walked 0.5miles...I burned 20 calories!"
 
Tammster said:
Not saying this would make you want to upgrade, but I thing the purpose of the new camera/flash improvements is so that the light doesn't look as "un-natural". I agree, I dont like using the flash on the iphone either, but I'm hoping that will change.
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Definitely would be interested to see photos taken with the new flash but I've never seen photos taken with flash even on high end cameras that look better than natural lighting. Even if the coloring is better, you'll still have the added shadows from the flash if the flash is straight on. Now a larger aperture would allow for the natural photos in dimmer light. I'm not a photographer by any means but I can take some really decent photos with my iPhone and always have the flash turned off.
 
Nhwhazup said:
Definitely would be interested to see photos taken with the new flash but I've never seen photos taken with flash even on high end cameras that look better than natural lighting. Even if the coloring is better, you'll still have the added shadows from the flash if the flash is straight on. Now a larger aperture would allow for the natural photos in dimmer light. I'm not a photographer by any means but I can take some really decent photos with my iPhone and always have the flash turned off.
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I'm pretty much the same.
Thinking about it, the only difference I would notice between the 5 and 5S is the fingerprint scanner, which isn't worth paying £200+ for.
 
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