Poll: ** The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus Thread **

Which colour iPhone 7 or 7 Plus are you going for?

  • Jet Black (gloss)

    Votes: 84 12.9%

  • Black

    Votes: 207 31.8%

  • Silver

    Votes: 30 4.6%

  • Gold

    Votes: 11 1.7%

  • Rose Gold

    Votes: 7 1.1%

  • I wanted one, but the lack of headphone jack is a deal breaker

    Votes: 76 11.7%

  • I'm not buying one

    Votes: 236 36.3%
  • Total voters
    651
JunglistE said:
I always tell my Android using friends that. Half the 'open' nature they tout of the system, I never want. My phone isn't my PC and I don't want to spend hours upon hours customising it. I just want it to work, out of the box with minimal hassle.
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Exactly and that's what 99% of customers want. The number of geeks who will spend forever customising their phones is miniscule in reality.

Choice is often a bad thing. The average person wants to be able to open email attachments without having to choose a viewer program. They want to just play music without having to choose what program they use to do that. This is what the Android zealots don't understand - they think everyone is a geek like them.

Android as a system is a total mess. Inefficient, fragmented and insecure.

I have an Android TV and it's full of bugs. If Apple ever started putting iOS in TVs, I'd buy one in a shot because I know it'd just work.
 
Man apple are having a laugh with these prices, I brought the 6+ 64gb for £699 which is eye watering in itself, to get the same tier phone now costs £819, or I can spend £20 more and get one with half the storage of my current phone. Looks like I am using this until it doesn't work well then probably going to Android, I can't stomach the price gouging
anymore :-(
 
Firstly you bought it. Once you had bought it you BROUGHT it home.

Secondly £819 is a 128gb phone.

Thirdly as repeatedly stated.. Brexit. The 10% hike is exchange rate.

now whether you can stomach it or not is your business but I wouldn't put this down to gouging.
 
Cases? I've owned one of every generation and have never bothered with a case. My case is Insurance :p

They go through all that hassle designing a pretty phone and half of the time they get hidden in ugly cases. Only thing I'll buy this time is a 'Phantom Glass' screen protector and that's only a possibility.
 
JunglistE said:
Cases? I've owned one of every generation and have never bothered with a case. My case is Insurance :p
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Because I'm clumsy and always drop my phone. I think I've dropped it 5 times in the past few months and not a mark on it (one silicon case knackered though). That's without a screen protector on it, face down on concrete, front corner etc. Insurance is £100 a pop or a new screen from Apple similar money. Then there's the resale to consider, an unmarked phone is much more sellable than one covered in scratches or chips. I've never used a screen protector though, don't see the point as the Apple cases provide enough protection from my own unfortunate experience.

Just looked at my order and realised it's a silicone case and not leather, oh well.
 
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Good point. I'm totally not using iPhone 6 number 3 which is also sporting a broken screen :p

edit, in my defence, this is the only one I've broke. My GF broke the first one by flinging the phone at my head, the 2nd was faulty and had a broken silent switch and this one fell off my desk last week,
 
It's my second 6S + as I lost the first one on a night out in Cheltenham. The case didn't help with finding it. I also lost the current one, but it was turned on and Find My iPhone led me to a driveway with a taxi on it. Luckily the phone was laid on the floor in the back of the car.
 
matt100 said:
Firstly you bought it. Once you had bought it you BROUGHT it home.

Secondly £819 is a 128gb phone.

Thirdly as repeatedly stated.. Brexit. The 10% hike is exchange rate.

now whether you can stomach it or not is your business but I wouldn't put this down to gouging.
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Thank you for correcting my spelling.

They removed the 64gb phone, so effectively it forces you to pay more to have the ability to use the phone in same way as you did.

As far as Brexit is concerned if the pound returns to levels that it was before can we expect a price drop?

On price gouging, I was exaggerating to make a point. However I do feel their stuff is approaching crazy levels. £819 for a phone is rather amazing don't you think?

Your stomach is hardier than mine it seems.
 
No one is forcing you to upgrade. Buy a second hand S or wait till next year and buy a second hand 7. Reduce your storage requirements, drop music bitrate, keep photos in the cloud, there's all manor of options.
 
matt100 said:
Thirdly as repeatedly stated.. Brexit. The 10% hike is exchange rate.

now whether you can stomach it or not is your business but I wouldn't put this down to gouging.
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Let's be honest, they are being greedy. Their price increase is around 140% of the forex movement and they could easily swallow half of the cost of the movement. The difference in pricing between the different memory levels is ridiculous. I'm not saying Apple owe anything to anyone but they are being purely greedy.

What ruined Apple wasn’t growth … They got very greedy. Instead of following the original trajectory of the original vision, which was to make the thing an appliance and get this out there to as many people as possible, they went for profits. They made outlandish profits for about four years… What that cost them was their future. What they should have been doing is making rational profits and going for market share
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Steve Jobs, 1995.
 
JunglistE said:
Your not an iPhone user unless you've broken one (or several), imo. lol.
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I have to disagree there, I've had 4 generations of iPhones so far and not so much as a scratch on any of them, a combination of case and being careful with a expensive piece of tech does do wonders. :)

I can't say that when they get passed down to the girlfriend however as they don't last five minutes in her hands. :rolleyes:
 
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Ha, I do have butter fingers. My iPhone 5 suffered the worst death. Sat in my car "Hmm, why didn't my car door shut? I'll slam it again" Turns out the iPhone 5 was acting as a door stop and I bent it with my door :p
 
Reviews are up:


Apple also warns that the jet black finish may wear over time, not unlike what slowly happened to the glossy black finishes on iPhones 3G and 3GS (pictured). I’ve had the piano black version for six days, and the finish already has a few hairline scratches across the back of it.
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