Post by WDB on Nov 23, 2017 16:13:35 GMT
I've gone and bought an Android. I needed to separate work from personal, given my new employer's bizarre (to me) policy of requiring me to have a phone but not providing one.
So i bought a £10 a montb SIM from BT with as much data as I'm ever likely to need, and no limit on calls or texts. Then I set about finding an iPhone to put it in.
And that proved difficult. I'm entirely happy with my iPhone 6, except that I keep hitting its storage limit because it's the cheapie 16GB model. And I can't get a new one any more. I could have an SE, but that's too small to be useful these days. Even the 6s has disappeared now; Carphone Warehouse had a few 32GB ones last weekend but I decided not to pay £435 for a 2015 design that will be short of storage before long.
So it's an iPhone 7, £600 for 128GB and no headphone jack. Problem. Yes, I know theres an adapter, and that digital interfaces are the future - allegedly. But I use my phone to download radio programmes and German modules to listen to on trains and planes, and another adapter is a faff I really don't need, especially at that price.
So I have an LG G6: 64GB plus a Micro SD slot and a big, hi-res screen in a neat case. £380 from John Lewis, and I've decided to strip out the iPhone for business calls and email, and to put my personal SIM in the G6. At the moment it feels like trying to walk on borrowed legs, and it's the first time since 2009 a new phone hasn't simply built itself from the old one.
This feels like a valid experiment, at least. I don't feel I've paid too much for the LG - although I'd have preferred not to pay for it at all. And if I find it's too hard to adapt to another ecosystem, there are at least two others in the house who'll gleefully take it off me. But a bit of encouragement from the regulars here would be welcome.
So i bought a £10 a montb SIM from BT with as much data as I'm ever likely to need, and no limit on calls or texts. Then I set about finding an iPhone to put it in.
And that proved difficult. I'm entirely happy with my iPhone 6, except that I keep hitting its storage limit because it's the cheapie 16GB model. And I can't get a new one any more. I could have an SE, but that's too small to be useful these days. Even the 6s has disappeared now; Carphone Warehouse had a few 32GB ones last weekend but I decided not to pay £435 for a 2015 design that will be short of storage before long.
So it's an iPhone 7, £600 for 128GB and no headphone jack. Problem. Yes, I know theres an adapter, and that digital interfaces are the future - allegedly. But I use my phone to download radio programmes and German modules to listen to on trains and planes, and another adapter is a faff I really don't need, especially at that price.
So I have an LG G6: 64GB plus a Micro SD slot and a big, hi-res screen in a neat case. £380 from John Lewis, and I've decided to strip out the iPhone for business calls and email, and to put my personal SIM in the G6. At the moment it feels like trying to walk on borrowed legs, and it's the first time since 2009 a new phone hasn't simply built itself from the old one.
This feels like a valid experiment, at least. I don't feel I've paid too much for the LG - although I'd have preferred not to pay for it at all. And if I find it's too hard to adapt to another ecosystem, there are at least two others in the house who'll gleefully take it off me. But a bit of encouragement from the regulars here would be welcome.
