What's a reasonable amount to pay for an iPhone monthly and how much data should I be looking at getting?
What's a reasonable amount to pay for an iPhone monthly and how much data should I be looking at getting?
I'm a heavy user and I've a 3GB plan that I use away freely because work pays if I go over anyway, and I haven't exceeded it in over a year.Originally Posted by Yevrah
What do you use your phone for?
Unless you are a very heavy user, 3GB is enough. However your monthly cost depends on how many minutes you want?
Probably 200 minutes would suffice and 200 texts.
Average price seems to be £40-45 for the iPhone 7 with £100 up front. Unless you were willing to go for the 6/6s?
I have a 4gb plan and usually come within 1gb of it. I browse a lot and read a lot of news / Twitter / email / whatsapp. Generally unless you're streaming video regularly you should be fine with 2-4gb.
I bought outright in October, but chose a 6s rather than a 7. Not because I love the headphone jack or anything - the 7 just didn't have enough oomph for me personally to justify spending more.
2-4Gb, depending on how much you're on wi-fi or using it whilst commuting.
I'm having to shit through my data as the Uni's wifi is absolutely shocking and I need to use my phone as a hotspot.
I was pretty comfortable at 1GB before but now I'm struggling on 3GB.
I use about 8GB a month.
Gotta get that HD midget porn
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This is serious value.
https://m.johnlewis.com/moto-z-smart...lver/p/2985783
Thoughts on the OnePlus 3T? Thinking of buying it in mid-April probably.
Won't get anything better at the money. Well worth getting.
And ordered.
Should be with me in a few days and then I'll sell my Xperia on Ebay to claw some of the money back.
I got that with the JBL Soundboost chucked in for free at the same price (assuming you linked the £298 deal), which I sold on. Really an excellent phone.
Get the new black one?
@Mahow
Just the Gunmetal, I only need 64GB of storage so there's no point paying £40 for double that capacity.
I'd the Play version for a few weeks and really found it brilliant, couldn't empty the battery on it at all. Would have liked to pick up that speaker mod to give it a go though.
True. It's not too much to pay to double the storage but with the likes of Spotify and cloud photo/file backups I barely even need even 32GB these days.
I'm pushed on my Xperia with 32 but I've got a lot of apps that I don't open.
I really need to get some sort of easy cloud storage sorted. It's a fucking nightmare on iOS.
Really? Other than the fact that it costs a minimal amount money I don't see how it's a nightmare. What's the issue?
He's scared that his naughty pictures will be stolen and leaked.
No one wants to see him in a gimp mask though so he shouldn't worry.
I have a potential new phone opportunity coming up. The Mrs, having taken my 6+ off me when her phone broke a year ago, is now in the final month of her contract. Despite having dropped it many times. Me insisting her using a case on it has kept it in essentially the same condition as when I gave it to her and so could be sold for a few hundred whilst she can upgrade.
I've been offered the upgrade as I'm far more bothered about technology like this than she is, providing I keep the monthly cost at maximum of £50
Now I like the top of the rangers usually and have the S7 Edge now. So there's the obvious S8 choice.
Is there anything else to look into? I know LG have another flagship due out anytime and that HTC seem to have very quickly died off, but is anything else worth a look? I've heard someone mention the Pixel to me but other than that I've not kept up on the phone market too much.
I've had the vodofone smart ultra for less than a year, but I'm already thinking of upgrading. When I was skint, the ~£100 price tag appealed a lot, but I'm starting to get a bit annoyed that even very limited apps are making it crash, and the battery life is pretty appalling. I have money and might actually have the security of a permanent job contract soon so thinking of entering the world of proper phones.
Am I right in assuming that paying outright for a handset then getting a sim only deal is still the best value? I pay about £20/month for 20GB data and unlimited everything else at the moment.
The LG G6 looks good and is a bit more interesting camera wise than the Samsung. Forget HTC, they're slipping further and further behind the rest.
Pixel is excellent but the hardware has been left behind of late so I'd hold off for the next one later this year. Actually if you've an S7 Edge now then I'd hold off until the Autumn and see what the Note 8, the new Pixel, Oneplus 5, and the new iPhone are like. That's what I'm doing myself.
If it can't be pushed out and you've to jump now then I'd still get the S8+ from the lot.
Not sure how the contracts work over there, but if you want to buy up front and still don't want to spend an absolute fortune then the Oneplus 3T is the no brainer. Though I got to play with an Honor 8 Pro the other day too which is in the same price bracket and it's class. Messier software, better camera.
Can you not just stick Google Drive/Dropbox/OneDrive on it? Or do you not get a load of that iCloud storage for buying the phone?
They're all pretty much the same. You get some iCloud storage, can buy more and the upgrade prices are not too bad. If you use Pages/Numbers/Keynote then it's alright and the Apple Photos app is ok.
I've had to install Google Photos on a load of the iPhones in work as they all find the built in app too awkward to navigate. Haven't really had a look myself but I presume they're all just mongs. The small quality loss doesn't really bother me when the storage is free and if there's any photo I really want at full resolution I take it in DNG anyway.
The Office365 subscription that I pay for anyway gives you 1TB of OneDrive storage so almost all other files go there. I got 250GB of Google Drive storage for 2 years when I bought the LG G4 but that's nearly expired so I had to move everything.
I've got Dropbox for it which is fine but it's a fucking pain uploading photos (you need to leave the app open) and then having to manually delete the photos on your phone. Just want something that will upload on a monthly basis and delete them from device.
I don't really understand iCloud, so haven't bothered using it
Give Google Photos a try. There's a 'Clean up Space' button in the main menu that will delete anything it has a copy of uploaded, plus the search function is better than any other gallery app because of the AI they use.
The downside is that you either have to pay for Drive storage and upload the photos at full original quality or you can have free unlimited downloads at a slightly reduced quality. That said, you won't notice unless you blow them up to A4 or something but you can check out a few backups and see if you're happy before you delete anything. The Photoscan app from Google Photos is brilliant for adding old hard copy photos to your gallery too.
Cool I'll look into it. Not bothered about the reduction in quality, it's literally just because I take a lot of photos and can't be arsed deleting them.
I just zoomed in on a photo from my gallery and my Google photos gallery and I can't see any difference anyway.
Google Photos is great, you'd have to work with some serious resolution to need the paid option. Best thing was when I moved to an Android phone and set it up and suddenly 10 years' worth of photos I thought I'd lost all appeared.
The same happened with my wife. Her phone got stolen when we were in the last few days of our 6 week trip, and she was more pissed off about the photos. But we managed to recover them all when we got home using Google Photos.
Cloud storage, for all of the bed press it gets because of people being phished/"hacked", is an incredible innovation.
Woke up this morning and she's dropped the phone and by the looks of it, it's landed on the only part where some of the case had broken away. Completely spider-webbed the screen. I swear she is doing it on purpose.
Does she have mangled hands?
She does now.
Alex Brooker handles things better.
This seems to be doing the trick although it's taking an age to back them all up. The feature to delete them from your library is a godsend.
Is there a way to set up a regular back up?
It'll be in the settings but it should be backing up constantly from now. Should be able to set it to backup only on WiFi or only when charging too.
Yeah, any time I make a change it backs up automatically when I'm connected to wi-fi.
She's clumsy as fuck. You know that person who seems to break everything she touches? That's her. This is the 3rd iPhone she has broken, though 1 wasn't really her fault.
Gutting as if it had held on for literally a week longer, we'd have been up money wise, going into a new phone. Now it's looking kind of mandatory I'm losing money.
First impressions of the Oneplus are really good.
It looks and feels brilliant.
Galaxy S8 ordered. I wouldn't have but Vodafone let me upgrade for a tenner and I'd only be paying £2 a month more. Seemed daft not to.
I can get the iPhone screen repaired for £80. Fix it and then sell it for £200 and I'm still up on money, just not by as much.
Which iPhone is it?
6 plus.
Apple quote £156 for a fix. GAME(I didn't know they did it) and a local phone shop will do it for £75(but takes a week) and £80(done in an hour) respectively.
I've changed one on a regular 6 before and it's not bad using the ifixit guide. Screen was around 25 euro iirc. Though 80 isn't bad to save the hassle.
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