Will you be ordering the new iPhoneS or C ?

We will go together. She is undecided on color until she sees the phone. So Friday after work we will stop at the store before dinner and check out the color. I just don't want the gold. I'm thinking out load that waiting on line for 3-4 hours is not my idea of fun on a Saturday, 1 hour I'm OK anything more than that will be annoying. Perhaps just go to Best Buy Friday evening and order the phone and they will call me when it gets in may be the better of 2 evils. My wife wants Apple Care because she drops her phone all the time and it has broken in the past.

Apple has a section on the web site that is not available for the 5S now but possible available on the 20th where you order online and pay for it, and have it sent to the Apple store of your choice and they email you when it arrives and you show ID and pick it up. However that is complicated when you have a trade in 4S. Than again I can go to ecoatm.com and just get cash immediately for my used phone. I have all week to think about this.

I'm leaning toward Best Buy since the trade in value is now $220. They seem to be the easiest to work with if I have patience. You place an order with a $50 deposit, when it comes in they email and call you. You have 3 days to claim the phone. They take the old phone on trade and offset the price of the new.

 

If you use your phone for the Navigation turn by turn the M7 is a great improvement. You will get your turn by turn instructions on time. The processor is dedicated to Navigation and the Gyro

The new OS7 is written for the 64Bit processor and the new 5S A7 Processor is a 64 Bit processor.

In time as apps are written for 64 Bit and not 32 Bit the older phones will not be optimized for the crop of new apps. The bottleneck in the development world is not coding but processors able to manage the requests quickly. Now with 64 Bit processors that are 3 fold faster you will see some new graphics intense apps hit the market.

I'm not a Phone guy, just interested in the discussion

 

Many do that. If you play the game correctly and trade in your old phone when the new ones release you can get your phone almost for free. That is in the USA where carriers subsidy the phone with 2 year contract commitments. Now sure how it works in the UK.

 

Mass I will buy the IPhone 5S 16GB AT&T for $199 plus $50 California Tax. My 4S will yield a $220 trade in value. The new phone will cost me $29. I spend more than that on dinner last night. For me it is a no brainer. The trade in value will decrease over time so waiting will only be worse.

Do the due diligence for your market but I'm sure upgrading is in your future

 

The OS7 will be available for free from iTunes to download this Wednesday 9/18.
I can see bottlenecks in refresh of maps and turn by turn instructions. Anything with graphics is already slow.

As a flotilla of new apps get released on iTunes store supporting the new 64 Bit PLATFORM the 5, 4S,4,3x phone owners will get left behind as they are stuck using old programs that will not be updated and supported.

 

Wonder when the iPad will get a Tech Refresh?

 

A little more out of pocket for you. I have no patience with selling stuff on eBay or Craigslist. But if you go that route bids are around $300 on Ebay albeit I haven't checked in awhile and Craigslist if you put it out there for $300 someone will bite or counter offer. If you do Craigslist meet in a public place like a Starbucks in daylight to transact and only accept cash. Bring a friend if you can

 

Bring the Muscle for example Franky the Frog, Muscle Mike, Craig the Crusher, Ron the Wrecker to defer any potential problem, and public places with cameras helps. I read to may Gangsta books when I was young

 

My current PC is 64 Bit. My last one was 64 Bit albeit 5 years old but I had to run IE and other apps in 32 Bit Mode for it to work. It was when 64 Bit architecture came out but not many apps to support it. When you run it in 32 bit mode the speed and graphics was absent. As new apps were developed in 64 Bit I took advantage of the increased performance.