I have written before about the state of the Apple iPhone market and my personal belief that the iPhone 6s was the pinnacle of development for people like me (possibly because almost everyone I know has one) and the fact that Apple´s development has concentrated on the camera aspects - pretty much to the detriment of everything else..
Well, I haven´t changed my opinion, but I have changed my phone.
The rationale was that a pal rang asking me my opinion of the latest models, then offered to get me one at a discounted price (normally almost impossible). Not wanting to look a gift phone in the handset, I acquiesced - but then we waited nearly 5 weeks for delivery.
I should point out that the only reason I did agrees, was because she herself opted to take over my old iphone - mainly due to its greater capacity (but also due to her having chipped here screen - an accident which is still awaiting an incident report).
Anyway, said iPhone 12 Pro arrived yesterday and my pal dropped it off - and waited to see how long it would take me to screw it up or upgrade it. He left after about two hours and I was still at it. His naive assumption was that Apple´s claim of easy transition would work well - but experience tells me that is not so - especially as I do not back up to the icloud. Sure enough, "the put two phones close to each other" b***s**t just stalled after a while. Eventually I stopped the process and reverted to manual amendments. That was not too painful, but getting the old phone set up for G was another matter. It didn´t like the backup I was restoring, as there was not enough space (duh!), so I had to do a full reboot back to zero - then load up the operating system, then restore the backup, then update the bloody operating system, then remove all my apps which it had decided to keep, then set the options to G´s taste. Midnight came and went, but eventually all was well.
This morning I received a despairing email form pal saying he had to re-enter all his banks details (and he has lots), but Barclays just wouldn´t work. Sure enough, when I checked, mine was the same. Two chip and pin machines later (did you know they have 4 little batteries in them?) and it was just about done on the third attempt. Managed to stop pal from committing Hara Kiri by talking him through the absolute garbage instructions from Barclays.
We both now working ok, but he says he doesn´t want to clear-down the old one and give it to his wife as he is not confident he has all his information across..
Next he says it is very heavy.
Suggest he goes and offers it in the street in Gib, as he would certainly make at least 100£ on what we paid - if he could carry the weight that far.
Now to find out the cost of a screen on a 6s plus - I think it might have been cheaper to have gone down that route in the first place!
(bu then the new 10x zoom camera does look pretty snazzy)
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