[Irinikus]

Today I finally upgraded to the iPhone 11 Pro, after carrying my 6S Plus around for 5 years (finally enough of an upgrade from a screen and camera point of view and the battery in the old phone was starting to get a bit tired 79% of its original performance according to Apple's battery health monitor, so not too bad for 5 years!)

I went for the Pro and not the Pro Max, as I'm tired of carrying around such a big phone. I really like the fact that the new phone is a bit thicker then the 6S Plus as it was too thin in my opinion!

[GeekLucanis]

Just this week I upgraded to the Samsung Note 10. Its a slight upgradee from my Note8. I lose out on a headphone jack and microsd storage, but the internal storage is now 256GB up from 64GB, and the ram is now 8GB up from 6GB. It has some quality of life improvements, but the best thing so far is that its a smaller phone.

[Irinikus]

Here's the difference in camera performance between the iPhone 6S Plus and the 11 Pro. (Right click on the images to open them in separate tabs, to view them properly)

6S Plus:




11 Pro:

[weblacky]

Right now I still have my iPhone 6S (going through batteries very fast though), using the official battery case from Apple has been great.

I've not used android after version 5, but I had really bad experiences with Android 2.3, 4, and 5 on devices from work. Answering calls was hit/miss (would clicking answer "work" in time before the phone rang 4 times and went to voice mail?), three ways to get to everything, needed to use kill/control panels to control processes, home screen...which isn't the App screen, isn't the same place as app navigation, phones had the back button but tablets used a completely different navigation. I know things are better now...but yeah...Android lost me big back in 2010.

I have never cracked a screen or damaged a phone, I'm extremely careful, and I've had the iPhone 4S (~$870) and the iPhone 6s (~$980) at launch day. The iPhone 4s just got so slow that web browsing didn't really work anymore and I had to upgrade for my sanity but I got 5 years out of it, this year will be five years on my iPhone 6s.

I hate buying a new phone because I have to change ALL the cases, and my car attachment system. I also spend a lot of money on these, 2-3 years is NOT ACCEPTABLE if that's all the life I get. The prices are way too high for a 3 year lifespan...and that's my Google Pixel complaint.

Google pixel has 2 years of updates and a third year of security patches (for basically the cost of an iPhone). While I've not upgraded to new iPhone models yet the price-per-year break down needs to make sense. On my current phone, if I get 5 years (less the damn apple batteries that keep going), I'll be at about $175 per year at the end of the phone's support life and I got five IOS versions! No Android phone gives you that many years of updates, period. They all seem to abandon at 3 years (less mods), if they were $400 or less that would make sense, they aren't!

That is the reason of my exclusive use of iPhones. Accessories are easy to get and fit well, always preorder and get a new model iPhone on launch day, Apple doesn't lower prices on iPhones until 1 year after, so the longer you wait, the higher price you've paid (because the time until it's no longer supported just got shorter, but you paid the same price). Getting it on Launch day assures you're getting maximum support life and maximum usage out of the product, buy it 6 months or a year later is wasting money. You'd be better off waiting until he next iPhone and buying that.

Now I know iPhones have gotten about $200-$300 more expensive (the storage divide - too little or too much caused this). But I'd be willing to push to nearly $200 a year on the phone's cost as long as I get 5 years. I use my iPhone for remote screen access, VPN, media, maps, reading technical PDFs, web, and email, and some calling...not much calling at all really. I'm on Verizon.

I have given up on iPads though, while current iPad Pros have had much longer support life, I bought two iPad models early on and both were abandoned in 2 years or less. That was unacceptable, I won't be buying another iPad. I'd rather just get a larger iPhone. Odd, iPhone has 5 years, iPads had 2...where is the damn sense in that!! Newer iPads have been better but only to about 3-4 years...still not acceptable to me.

It's a number's game to me, I can make anything work, but am I getting my money's worth? iPhones are pricey but I am getting my money's worth (so far) over the high cost of most android phones that won't support the phone after 2 years and you're lucky to get more then a single android OS update on most phones, that's really bad. Old OSes on mobile can lead to a big security issues, don't run old software on phones or on web browsing machines. Too much is at risk.

I'm really hoping apple tries a folding iPhone or I might pickup the new MS Surface Duo when it comes out and see if MS is going keep Android up to date correctly (or screw people over like everyone else).

[DBJ974]

My everyday phone is an ONEPLUS 6 but i own also an iPhone 6S plus as controller for my DJI Mavic Pro