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Which watch did you go for? Mine isn't being despatched until the end of the month!
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Which watch did you go for? Mine isn't being despatched until the end of the month!
Commissario
Oh yeah!
It's the Series 2 Space Gray aluminium. The phone is the silver 7plus 256Gb and it's just restoring through iTunes now.
Soldato
I'd suggest you read the thousands of reviews LOL.
Soldato
Some camera comparisons
http://uk.pcmag.com/smartphones/845...us-vs-iphone-6s-vs-galaxy-s7-cameras-compared
http://uk.pcmag.com/smartphones/845...us-vs-iphone-6s-vs-galaxy-s7-cameras-compared
So the store was a bit of a nightmare this morning with the Barclays issues. Appointment was at 10:00-10:15.
I turned up at around 09:30 firstly to scout the store out before getting a coffee however there was a small queue outside with another inside, so spoke with a member of staff and queued up. About 2 hours later (-,-) i'm at the front of the inside queue as it's taking forever to process the iUP and the systems keep crashing.
Eventually sit down with a genius and have the same issues with the finance. Sat chatting with the store staff (who were excellent I might add) and they said that they will hold the iUP phones for a few days due to the issues or we could buy them with cash now and come back within 14 days to get a refund and to go onto the iUP once the issues are resolved.
Anyway, it was now 12:00 so decided screw this I need to get to work and paid cash with the mindset of coming back in a week to do the swap to iUP.
I'm actually now debating if to just stick with owning the phone, at least I will have some equity in the phone as Apple's trade in isn't too bad money wise (got £305 for the 6S 64GB but annoyingly they issued a gift card instead of cash in which I didn't apply it to the phone as I was planning on coming back with iUP!)
What puts me off the iUP now is this happening EVERY year. Much easier to get a brand new phone delivered!
Happy with the phone though, home button is nice but taking some getting used to. Feels a bit faster than my 6S but we will see how it goes!
I turned up at around 09:30 firstly to scout the store out before getting a coffee however there was a small queue outside with another inside, so spoke with a member of staff and queued up. About 2 hours later (-,-) i'm at the front of the inside queue as it's taking forever to process the iUP and the systems keep crashing.
Eventually sit down with a genius and have the same issues with the finance. Sat chatting with the store staff (who were excellent I might add) and they said that they will hold the iUP phones for a few days due to the issues or we could buy them with cash now and come back within 14 days to get a refund and to go onto the iUP once the issues are resolved.
Anyway, it was now 12:00 so decided screw this I need to get to work and paid cash with the mindset of coming back in a week to do the swap to iUP.
I'm actually now debating if to just stick with owning the phone, at least I will have some equity in the phone as Apple's trade in isn't too bad money wise (got £305 for the 6S 64GB but annoyingly they issued a gift card instead of cash in which I didn't apply it to the phone as I was planning on coming back with iUP!)
What puts me off the iUP now is this happening EVERY year. Much easier to get a brand new phone delivered!
Happy with the phone though, home button is nice but taking some getting used to. Feels a bit faster than my 6S but we will see how it goes!
Soldato
Picked up my 128GB 7 Black earlier on the upgrade programme.
The gf had a 13:30 appointment for hers and called me at 13:00 to say there was a 1-2hr wait on upgrade collections due to Barclays system going down. I decided to give it a shot anyway with the intention of buying outright if things hadn't changed (as apparently the walk-in queue was tiny) but by the time I got there at 2pm the queue was down to 30 mins.
Ended up walking out the store with my phone at exactly the same time as the gf, who was not impressed
The gf had a 13:30 appointment for hers and called me at 13:00 to say there was a 1-2hr wait on upgrade collections due to Barclays system going down. I decided to give it a shot anyway with the intention of buying outright if things hadn't changed (as apparently the walk-in queue was tiny) but by the time I got there at 2pm the queue was down to 30 mins.
Ended up walking out the store with my phone at exactly the same time as the gf, who was not impressed
Commissario
My restore appears complete and I've paired the new watch. The only thing which concerns me slightly is that my Photo library on my Mac and my 6SPlus shows over 9,100 photos but the new phone only shows around 3700. Perhaps it needs time to sync but I'd expect the full number to be shown.
I backed up and restored through iTunes.
I backed up and restored through iTunes.
You can get a decent android phone for around £300 these days which only really loses out on the camera and obviously the Apple ecosystem.
I wouldn't buy a high end android as the prices are too close to the iPhones but the mid-range ones are tempting!
That's interesting. It utterly obliterated the competition in benchmarks but if it's handling the mundane tasks slower than a 6S and 80% of the operation is handling mundane tasks then that's not good.
I'd like to hear more about this. It could be fixed by an iOS update but I wonder if that would cause a large battery impact. After the iOS10 update my 6S had a genuinely notable increase in speed.
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Yeah personally i'd give it ages! Has it finished reinstalling your apps etc?
Mine ALWAYS has issues has reinstalling apps.. I'm left with a good few that are just greyed out with "waiting" on them.. happens every time....
Commissario
Apps all went on with no problems. I'm specifically not syncing any music yet as I'm switching from 'convert to 128kbps' to default format so I just wanted to be sure all was good before dumping music out to it.
lol, iFixit are doing a live streaming water test with an iPhone in a fish tank to test it's waterproofiness
Nearly 3 hours so far, and still in good working order
Haha, genius
Yeah I've been comparing the load speeds of various games from scratch and compared to the iPhone7 the 6s is quicker - only fractionally but still....
Obviously when in game the 7 is smoother (slightly), but its that snappiness of loading that has been a little sour.