I have the 4S myself, don’t think I’ve ever even seen a 5 up-close and in-person. But I’m a bit out of sync on the update cycles, too.
Funny thing, I rarely use my phone as a PHONE. I use it all the time for data, so I may actually not upgrade the phone next year, but pick up an iPad (maybe Mini) instead if I can find a lower-cost data-only plan and then just get one of the low-cost prepaid phone plans for those rare times I actually make or take calls.
“Funny thing, I rarely use my phone as a PHONE. I use it all the time for data, so I may actually not upgrade the phone next year, but pick up an iPad (maybe Mini) instead if I can find a lower-cost data-only plan and then just get one of the low-cost prepaid phone plans for those rare times I actually make or take calls.”
That is probably a good plan, and you can save a boat load of monthly access money.
One of our younger relatives on his own bought the big IPad and uses Verizon data service for about $40 per month. It is amazing what he can do with his IPAD. His immediate boss has an I5 phone, and they are in the process of convincing their management to allow them to go buy them IPADs and the monthly Verizon data service and simple LG 840 G TracFones with the triple minutes for phone and texting.
They can equip the two of them with IPADS w/the Verizon Data service and LG 840 G Tracfones for a lot less costs than their Iphone and company smart phone.
I have the LG 840 G Tracfone with a ton of minutes and two years of service for less than $200. I can make phone calls, text, take pictures and send them in text messages. It is more reliable re service than some of the I5’s. We are having some work and repainting done on our home. Our contractor with his new I5 and AT&T service was unable to call his painter to line up time for our house from our driveway. I loaned him my Tracfone, and it worked perfectly.
Apple has to be concerned that a lot of their heavy duty IP5 customers might buy an I Pad and a good TracFone to do more for less money.
A brother of the younger relative mentioned above has hijacked his wife’s big I Pad for a couple of days each week and is looking using one with the Verizon Data service to go to a cloud memory system for some heavy duty field use and to replace the Dell/HP computers in his home office.
Even more scary to Apple, IBM, AT&T, Verizon,? is what a cousin of these two brothers is messing around with in his free time. He thinks that apps can be designed to use the IPADs like IPhones for a little monthly fee for the app and something like Skype for an online phone use with the IPADS.