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My iPhone has gone Pete Tong, so I'm gonna have to get a replacement. And before anyone suggests it, the replacement has got to be an iPhone for various reasons, primarily is I know how to use these ones :oops:

I'm led to believe there are going to be some new model iPhones realised this September. I've never bought a new iPhone before, always relying on cast offs from my family, this ain't gonna happen this time.

So I'm thinking of buying a new one as a one off, I don't want to change my sim only contract.

My question is, will the release of these new models, reduce the price of the existing ones, my likely intended purchase?
 
Check on MacRumours, new phones tend to be more expensive and doesn't necessarily mean the price of the older phones goes down you may get a better deal on a contract from a provider but you want a SIM only phone, remember its all tax deductible.......
iPhone Xs: Debuting Sept 12 – Multiple Sizes, New Gold Color - https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/iphone-xs/

Thanks, I was kinda hoping in a reduction in the price of the old models, but having never been in this position I'm a bit clueless.
 
iPhone 8 is available but £800 for a 64GB is a bit of a hit in the pocket.
 
Looking at Currys for example, £549 for a 7 & £639 for an 8.

Not point putting it off then, purchase that is?
 
what about going to cash converters for a cheap phones .
spending nearly a grand on a phone what is the world coming too.
just think about a holiday with that money.
 
what about going to cash converters for a cheap phones .
spending nearly a grand on a phone what is the world coming too.
just think about a holiday with that money.
You are Buzz Light Year you don't have to pay to travel to holiday destinations.

The thing with phones now is that they are used as mini mobile PC's.
 
what about going to cash converters for a cheap phones .
spending nearly a grand on a phone what is the world coming too.
just think about a holiday with that money.

Good point, but I can do both :)

Not gonna spend a grand, but might spend £600. Thats just a week in Bournemouth.
 
Yep been doing that for years with cast off's. Mines a 5s, which has decided enough enough. Only think I've found with older phones, is sneaky Apple, stop doing the IOS updates after a while, making them almost u/s with the apps etc.
 
Once you are on the Apple road...it can be hard to break free, I believe.
My wife and daughter only have iphones, and wouldn't consider anything else. I don't really get it, but I use my phone to call people, text and whatsapp, and it's got a brilliant satnav built in.
It's a Windows phone...
I know, laugh all you like! But it's sim free, and cost £120, and I charge it every couple of days whether it needs it or not.
 
It's quite a coincidence, talking of cost of phone vs holiday...

I wrote this Apple Rant back in 2015


THE APPLE RANT…



Too many people are following the lemming road...and that stupidity is why Apple succeeds...

It's clever marketing, no doubt about that, and many are quite happy to be ignorant, and thus display that ignorance, by blindly following their acquisitive instincts to acquire the "latest thing". It is time to stop. Why throw away a perfectly good mobile phone/pod/pad just to have the latest gadget, the old ones being consigned to landfill? We have to stop this total waste. Apple have cornered the market in exploitation in this area. Look, I have an iPod! Look, I have a super new dock which charges my iPod as well as broadcasting my tunes around the house! Look, my computer has been totally taken over by iTunes! Look, I have just bought the latest iPod! Oh...look...the charger I had doesn't work...

Oh...look...the expensive dock I have plays the tunes but doesn't charge my iPod...

Ah, here's my new iPhone! Look how shiny and new it is! and look too...it makes calls, does texts and emails and it has a new charging/download socket that isn't the same as my old charger which I will throw away...

Ah! At last! The latest version of my iPhone has been released and it's only a squillion dollars, has no charger because that's extra...and my old one doesn't work with it...never mind, I'll throw it away into landfill and get that new one with the lightning connector...

How lucky am I? 3 iPods, 3 iPhones...and none of them works with any of the 6 previous docks and chargers! Brilliant! I am a stupid lemming! I love it! Apple has grabbed me and made me part with loads of money...and am I any better off in any way? well, yes! I have a gadget that plays tunes and a phone that does everything my last 2 did! How clever am I? Not very...

But when the NEXT pod/phone is released I will rush lemming-like to give my hard earned cash to Apple, because I am so stupid as to believe that having the next version from launch is a cool, clever, fulfilling and clever thing to do!

So far in this short progression, and not even mentioning iPads, I have spent a couple of grand, I have 6 redundant chargers and docks, I have a computer which tries to force me to iTunes every time I boot it up, and demands control of all my downloads, yet when I want to copy all the stuff I have already paid for it tells me bad news...you know the messages.

Try this:

Use your gadgets til they break down, then recycle the whole package.

Buy what YOU need..NEED! Not what you think is cool...

resist the "takeover mentality" and thus break the ridiculous Apple stranglehold. I admire it from a marketing viewpoint...it's brilliant! However it raids your wallet, and for the vulnerable, stupid people in the world, the gullible and ill-informed, the poorly advised and those who are not intelligent enough to realise they are being manipulated, it is a crime. Those categories make up the majority, so protect them, educate them and point out that a phone upgrade can cost as much as a family holiday...

Rant over!
 

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