New Smartphone Review Thread

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#341

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http://appleplugs.com/

Thought this was pretty hilarious so I’ll just leave it here.

I actually pay $30/month to do the phone lease and get a free upgrade every year. Just gotta turn in the phone at the end of the year. If you do the math, it’s actually cheaper. I think I paid $650 for my 5S. By the time the 6 came out and I tried to sell it, I could only get $150 for it even with it being unlocked and in perfect condition, not to mention only a few months old. Same thing with my 6 plus happened. I bought it and after the 6S plus came out I changed service so I tried to sell it. Couldn’t even get $200 for it. In the end I’m paying $360/year for the latest phone and never have to worry about selling it. My phone service is $40/month through Sprint so after you add the lease and taxes, it’s still only $80. Sprint has stepped their game up recently so I get better service than my girlfriend does with Verizon.

#342

Double post

#343

I think you’re doing it wrong…

You can get $400 for a 6 plus 64gb all day long today.

Maybe you suck at selling stuff lol.

#344

Who said I had the 64gb phone? Lol, I’ve always gotten the 16gb version and I’ve never needed more.

Let’s say I could get $400 for it though. Then add in the 10% eBay seller fees and shipping and you’re down to $350. After tax I paid over $800 for my 6 plus. Meaning I would have paid $450 total for the phone and then I’d still have to go out and buy another phone at an additional cost of $350-$450.

#345

One beef I have with the Note 7 now that I’ve had it for a few weeks is that if I lose mobile service (underground parking lot in my office building), at least 50% of the time, it can’t reconnect to the mobile network on its own unless I manually restart the phone. Samsung is replacing my phone in the next couple weeks due to the recall so I’ll see if the new one has the same issue. Seems like a software problem rather than a hardware one though.

#346

nobody pays $800 for a phone unless they hate money. If you think you need the iphone 7 plus within 6 months of its launch, you’re kidding yourself. Get it in 8 months for $399.

So you buy a subsidized phone for about $399. You then sell it 24 months later for $300-400.

I get that you like your lease program, but it’s not very good.

Also, get to know craigslist or in canada, kijiji. free classifieds, amazing liquidity, no fees.

#347

Out of curiosity, what do you pay for service?

#348

$50 CDN (or $38 USD)

unlimited talk domestically
200 minutes of long distance/month
unlimited text
6 GB of LTE data
no bullshit fees…just the $50 for everything

However due to my great (for this market) deal, they have recently made me ineligible for subsidized upgrades after 5 years at this price. If I want an upgrade eligible package, it’s the same thing for about $68 a month or $52 USD. Of course at $68/month I’m paying an extra $18/month or $432 every 2 years…in order to get my provider to subsidize my phone price by…$400. What’s the point.

My note 3 is robust, has massive storage and is all around excellent. I can’t think of any reason to upgrade it personally.

#349

I found out last night that my old Galaxy S5 shoots 4K

#350

Is it considered illegal for a manufacturer to release software updates for older devices that intentionally make it run poorly and introduce new “issues”?

#351

Generally speaking, I think any manufacturer that intentionally sought to damage its customers’ products would be subject to some kind of liability.

#352

Gotcha. I must not have been paying attention to that part of the presentation. I have a set of powerbeats for the gym - they’re decent but lack the sound quality of many wired headphones.

#353

I’m just thinking out loud… Not necessarily to “damage” the device, but what if those updates were intentionally designed to work just beyond the hardware limitations of the ‘older model’. Those same updates would be in-line with the capability of the new model. I mean, hell, we all click ‘accept terms & conditions’, so the end user doesn’t have much of a leg to stand on from a legal perspective. Seems like a pretty straight-forward way to make people fall out of love with their current device…

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I’ve thought this way since the iPhone 4/4S came out…

#354

^^ I get what you’re saying, but isn’t this just the nature of technology? What’s the rule about the speed of the cpu doubling every 18 months or so?

The tech industry is highly competitive, so naturally companies either innovate or die. Their shareholders would rightly demand nothing less. I think striking the proper balance between serving customers of old and new products is probably a tricky proposition. That said, I don’t think a business model that entices people to fall out of love with their old devices is a bad thing - it’s what has made Apple one of the most successful businesses in the world.

#355

I would think so. I think it would also be harder to prove that they have ill intentions although every update completely ruins your phone. Worse part is you don’t have a choice to update.

#356

I lol’d pretty good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8wyv3GzO2U

#357

lol

#358

Has your phone exploded yet?

https://youtu.be/dDa9JJUbRfE

#359

Blew his thumbs off. That’s why he hasn’t replied.

Weird story that. It’s like. Samsung rushed it. Maybe they hired Tesla engineers. Or the guys who said ios10 was ready

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/apple/apple-releases-updates-for-watchos-xcode-and-ios-but-not-without-problems/

#360

Funny enough, I got this text message on Monday.

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