Iphone?

[tanteva]

So ... should I get an Iphone or should I get a new battery to my OLD cell phone?

 

[whatnext]

if you have the $$$, get the iPhone, i say. i keep waiting for everything to get cheaper (the ACCESS part, mainly,) but i doubt it ever will. so i'm stuck with my oldie Samsung. no camera. no internet. no nothing.

 

[clarabear]

iPhone!!!! I love my iPhone. Although they are a bit addictive. I highly recommend it.

 

[petey111]

I love my iPhone. Love it, love it, love it!

 

[dwsewbiz]

Me three, LOVE it, don't know how I lived without it. But I did wait for my upgrade eligibility so it was only like $200.

 

[snowdropz]

Go for the iPhone if you can! I can't do without mine!

 

[Bush Girl]

I'm a no to the iphone, despite having an ipod, ipad, imac & macbook - so I guess I qualify as a Mac girl. The cheapest contract you can have here with an iphone is about £25 per month (I think that's around $40) and as I struggle to use £10 a month credit I just couldn't justify it. My android phone has internet capabilities but I actually asked for it to be turned off as I really don't need to be logging on whilst walking the dogs or doing the school run. There is no mobile reception where we go in the country at the weekends so we certainly wouldn't being using the internet even with an iphone.

 

[snowdropz]

If you own the iPhone, your contract is much cheaper. I pay about £15.32 a month and I can't barely use up my 300 minutes of calls (dun make much calls) with unlimited texts and internet access. Thankfully it comes in handy when I have to wait about for my boys while they having their music lessons.

 

[taxed4ever]

Love, Love, Love my Iphone!!! I say go for it !!!

 

[Stef]

I LOVE my iPhone! That is the main way I check in here at the forums, especially now that I moved again. BUT - I should have internet back on at the house next week. WooHoo!

 

[tanteva]

DH said I had asked here at Oscraps, cuz I knew everyone would say I should get one, and that they loved there Iphone ... I guess he's right LOL

If I get a Iphone 4 (not 4S) it would be 249 SEK/month with internet access. That's about $35. If I keep my old phone and get a new battery for about $10, I spend about $12-15 per month on my cash card (or whatever it's called in English when you don't have a monthly fee). I rarely use my cell phone since I'm mainly at home all the time.

This is why I have a hard time to really motivate getting an Iphone. It would be just for fun - no real need for it.

 

[VickiStegall]

wow y'alls plans are really cheap! i pay $30/mo just for the data part.... then $5 for unlimited texts, $10 for the phone service (as an additional family phone, so it's not the 'base' fee) and that's on a family plan. we pretty much pay that for each of our phones

if you're just going to get it for use around the house, why not get an ipad instead?

(and, your hubby is funny - he knows us too well!)

 

[tanteva]

if you're just going to get it for use around the house, why not get an ipad instead?

Yay! This is the kind of enabling that I love :rofl:

 

[VickiStegall]

Yay! This is the kind of enabling that I love :rofl:

heh, i do what i can :eyebrows:

 

[SharLamb]

Well, I have a Droid, so it's not EXACTLY answering your question but here is why I decided to get it instead of a new battery.

A new battery probably isn't really new. The industry is moving toward smart phones, and not supporting the old style so much any more. For certain "dumb" phones, the "new" batteries have been sitting on a shelf deteriorating for months/years (from what I have heard from someone in the industry).

My purse camera was dying, so I figured I could carry just a phone with good quality photo capability, and lighten my load. Once I got the phone set on high resolution, I've been thrilled.

My phone syncs with my Kindle, so when I'm waiting for my mother to get thru with the doctor (while I'm in the waiting room), I can read the same book I was reading the night before on my Kindle, and it is even lighter than the Kindle.

My grandchildren love to play Angry Birds on my phone, and will sit on my lap to do so!!! Worth the price of the phone by itself!

I can check my email from anywhere. Yes. I am an email addict. I'm even starting to love voice texting.

When my DH's dumb phone dies, even he is going to move to a Droid, and THAT I can hardly believe.

 

[yvonnahenna]

I'm with Vicki, if you don't use your phone that much, get an iPad.

When I need a new phone, August! almost here!!, I really want an iPhone. But that is if it's only not more than I pay now. I pay around 25 dollars per month.
I guess it will be more if I want an iPhone.

 

[snowdropz]

DH said I had asked here at Oscraps, cuz I knew everyone would say I should get one, and that they loved there Iphone ... I guess he's right LOL

If I get a Iphone 4 (not 4S) it would be 249 SEK/month with internet access. That's about $35. If I keep my old phone and get a new battery for about $10, I spend about $12-15 per month on my cash card (or whatever it's called in English when you don't have a monthly fee). I rarely use my cell phone since I'm mainly at home all the time.

This is why I have a hard time to really motivate getting an Iphone. It would be just for fun - no real need for it.

To be honest, my iPhone is more than a phone. It's my diary, my schedule planner, my calendar, my alarm clock and many more. Every morning I have to look at my calendar to see what's on (my brain's like a sieve!). I've got an app whereby I load photos for everyday like Project 365 (in photo form). I've got an app to keep all passwords to forums, bank accounts etc. Heck, I've even got a period calendar to let me know when my period is due (very helpful when planning holidays!) To me, it's no longer a phone. It kinda runs my daily life! I use FaceTime to communicate with my family overseas, my best friend in China and other friends located overseas, all free if you have wifi. No more expensive phone bills! (Obviously, they all have iPhone too). But I know I'll never get another type of phone as this one suits my needs completely! Oh yes, I've got Kindle on it and I do read my book on it when I've got to wait for my boys.

That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!

 

[charlize]

I want iPhone myself ... I was dreaming about that few years ago when I still use my Sony Ericsson ... but then someone ruined my mind with giving me a blackberry for free.
Since then ... I hook to my blackberry and can't let it go even once ... even now I have 2 of them, one is for my clothing business only and the other is definitely used for phone LOL ...
BUT ... I still want my iPhone one day ... when the price is a bit human for me and when I really really really savings some of my money to buy it
Still a bit pricey for me ... here in Indonesia it's around 8,8 million for 64GB - the exchange rate of USD is around 9100 so the price is $967 ... what a price!!

 

[snowdropz]

Hey Charlize, if you do go in Singapore, try buying there. I got my iPhone4 there, which is far cheaper than in UK! Even got my iPad & Macbook there too.

 

[tanteva]

It's my diary, my schedule planner, my calendar, my alarm clock and many more.

I use my phone like that too ... I have to set alarm to remember my meds, and feeding the turtle. And the calendar is the only planner I use. I guess my Iphone would be more like a handheld puter than a phone if I get one.

 

[Crafty Kacy]

I've just moved from a very old Nokia to an iphone. I didn't use my phone much, just for the odd text or phone call. Half the time it wasn't charged or I forgot to take it with me!

Then my DH bought me an iphone and I adore it! It goes everywhere with me (obviously) and like Audrey says you can do so much with it - diary, calendar, to do list, camera, and some fun apps too. I'm so pleased I've got it!

 

[Tamsin]

Friend has the iphone and ipadl Is using the ipad more because her 2 daughters are overseas and they are blogging and putting up photos so she's in touch whenever they are close to a wifi hotspotl
Says she can transfer money to them more quickly than if she has to go to her laptop. She's absolutely rapt in the ipad and finds it really useful.

 

[faerywings]

This thread must be hidden from my kids and hubby.

We all have really old Samsung "smartphones" that can access the internet albeit very slowly. And they have a habit of turning themselves off randomly.

They all want iphones which you can now get through our carrier, Sprint. But as it is, I pay $160 a month for all 4 phones to have unlimited text/calls/data. I can't imagine trying to upgrade.... And the suckiest part is that its an all or nothing deal- either we all get the upgrades or no one does. I was absolutely fine having "just a phone" but it would have been more expensive in the long run.

But yeah, if they saw this- they'd be bugging me all three of my "kids." LOL

 

[VickiStegall]

Chris, we pay right around $230/month for 3 of us to have iphones (or it's $250/month - we have uverse for our cable/phone/internet which is at&t which is who we have our iphones with, so I can't remember at the moment which bill goes with which service, but dang, I think we need to cut some services here lol)

 

[clarabear]

We pay about $225 a phone for 5 phones, 4 being iPhones. I'm actually about to cancel the 5th one but it will only take off $10.

 

[Heather Prins]

Get the iPhone .

 

[faerywings]

Ugh! That's so expensive! Caitlyn's phone is just about dead and unable to be revived, and we had this argument again with her last night. I don't know what to tell her, its not like my money tree is dropping bills or anything hahah!!

 

[clarabear]

Random trivia for all of you about iPhones.

Did you know that the computing power in this little hand held device is more than ALL of NASA when they put a man on the moon? Crazy, huh?

 

[clarabear]

I should be eligible for an upgrade this month but I'm going to try and hold out until the next phone comes out. I think it should come out in the fall.

 

[petey111]

There have been rumors that it won't though too. It's so hard to tell I started just saying, you are always going to be obsolete anyway the second you buy it!!!