Poll: ** The Official iPhone X Thread **
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I agree with Faustus. Avoid warranties, put the money to one side. Once you have £1000 in that account/kitty. Stop. I work for an Insurance company. You get an insight into how much is made on money swapping which is low value policies. You should have cover only for things you do not have savings for. There is nothing to stop you having Apple customer service, you just pay for it on a loss basis.
As an aside. Still not sold on this. I have a 6s which is 20 months old. Still good as new. I still get the OS updates. I am not seeing a killer reason to upgrade for my use cases. Likewise the watch.
As an aside. Still not sold on this. I have a 6s which is 20 months old. Still good as new. I still get the OS updates. I am not seeing a killer reason to upgrade for my use cases. Likewise the watch.
To me phones nowadays are just too slippery without a case, it would be on the ground way too many times than 2.
The thing I don'l like in IX is that it's so shiny, I don't like glass (shines) I don't like steel/chrome sides, tooooo shiny. Matt black 7 was very stealth, subtle and classy.
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If you buy it on Amex for example, you get 90 days accidental damage from the date of purchase.
For about £7.50 (or something), I can have 4 devices of tech insured from Barclays through my account. Good to put anything from Phones, Nintendo Switch to iPads and even Laptops on it.
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There’s pretty much no chance of Touch ID coming back, not after publicly stating the statistics for both Face ID and Touch ID.
What's the excess on that?
I like that you deal with Apple and not some random repair shop that you need to send your phone too via delivery.
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£50 for Apple and £25 for other phones.
You send it off, and get a new replacement in 3 days. Basically same phone (model, colour, size) you get from Apple, without any accessories obviously. I would like to deal with Apple too but where I am now I need to make an appointment to the Genius Bar for the weekend, the travel up there and hope I get a replacement after sitting around for 45mins (i've done it before). And I believe a replacement from Apple is like £150.
Plus I didn't have much choice last week, I had a cracked phone that was sharp to touch, so either pay for a new one or try my luck through the insurance from the bank. It worked out FANTASTIC, in everything from submitting the claim to getting it back.
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I said this earlier, but basically since Apple have come out saying FaceID is the best thing since sliced bread, I can't see them coming back next year going "and here's the inferior tech we removed last year".
Eh, if the public reacts poorly to FaceID or it gets cracked, they'll just release TouchID v3 which is somehow even more plus plus better than FaceID...
A touch ID that works across the entire screen would be cool, like you go to use the phone, doesn't matter where on the screen you press, if it's you it unlocks could be good
A touch ID that works across the entire screen would be cool, like you go to use the phone, doesn't matter where on the screen you press, if it's you it unlocks could be good
Thats pretty good. Do they guarantee that its 3 days? I just had the screen on my 6+ replaced by halifax (a lot of companies use the same replacement/fixing shop/company) and it took nearly 3 weeks because they didn't get a lot of replacement devices in for the 64gb 6+. It was frustrating to say the least.
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It's 3 days after they confirm receipt of your phone, it is stated in writing. They also state it is a replacement, not repair.
In my experience, I sent it off Tuesday via RMSD (MAKE SURE YOU DO THIS), and I got it back on Friday via DPD.
When I got it back, they even updated my insurance with the new phone's IMEI number, so I didn't even have to do that either (the email I got says they had done it so I checked).
I don't know how it works but basically you get a "new" phone back. They don't replace the screen on yours. My case was damaged and the screen cracked. The one I got back was immaculate in every way and I have replaced screens on iPhones in the past. This looked like an apple replacement.
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Mine isn't a repair, but a replacement. It feels like a new phone, the battery is certainly brand new. Beforehand I have to charge it by 4pm but now I get to bed time and it still have 50% left.
BrightStar International handle all of Apples buybacks. It's all on stock levels. A completely destroyed phone gets recycled, one with a scratched up case etc gets re-cased, re-screened and re-batteried and returned to someone else as a refurb, if it's in pretty good condition but clearly second hand it goes to BrightStar.
Depends on stock levels though, if they have way too many black 64GB 6+'s in stock, they'll send more and more to BrightStar, if they're low on stock levels they'll refurb ones that aren't really in need of refurb, etc.
All water damaged phones are recycled.
Depends on stock levels though, if they have way too many black 64GB 6+'s in stock, they'll send more and more to BrightStar, if they're low on stock levels they'll refurb ones that aren't really in need of refurb, etc.
All water damaged phones are recycled.
I have something similar but with Natwest, I believe the use Avia. When I claimed for my iPhone 6 I didn't even need to send it away. They sent me a replacement which I switched with the courier and had a 'new' handset then and there.
I was wondering this the other day, but there's always a need due to DFU and accessing phone statistics in the Apple store. Saying that perhaps they're already thinking of ways around this.