Re: [apple-iphone] Upgrade to 4 or 4s

On Mar 12, 2013, at 11:31 PM, Charles Lenington wrote:

> On 3/12/13 6:16 PM, Alvin Auerbach wrote:
>> I agree with David Smith. Verizon's least expensive smartphone plan is $80/mo, with 300MB of data.
>> There's always taxes and fees that they add. Assume that they are 10%, or $8/mo. The contract is for 2 years, so over the life of the contract, just for the service, not including the phone, you will pay 24 x $88 = $2112.
>> Two years and $2112. is a lot of time and money to use a phone that you're not satisfied with. Get the phone you like.
>> Additionally, once you get some experience with your smartphone, you're not going to be satisfied with 300MB of data/mo. You might be spending $110/mo for the service with a reasonable amount of data. That ups your contract price to 24 x $110 = $2640.
>> Get the phone you want, not the phone you'll regret.
>>
>>
> my 8g 3GS has 5.1 GB avail out of 6.2 GB. Of this 716 photos and 15
> mystery videos (don't know what/where they are). 0 songs. It's a year
> +]- old.
>
Because we all use our iPhones differently, we all have different requirements. If the less expensive machine fulfills your needs, then that's the one to get, and you'd regret getting the more expensive machine.

I had the 32GB 3GS, and it's a very nice machine. When I was able to get the 4S, I bought it for the better camera, and the larger storage. I have a navigator that has the entire map of the USA in the machine, and that takes about 1.5 GB by itself. I have user manuals for my TV and my GF's TV; etc. I have something like 2,500 songs; hundreds of photos, and much else.

I think that the way one uses their computer might be a guide to what iPhone they should buy. My iMac has a 1TB drive, with 685GB used. I also have 12GB of RAM installed. So that pointed me in the direction of a large storage capacity for my iPhone. On the other hand, I send/receive a handful of texts per year, so I don't have a "text plan", which might be important for others.
Alvin



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