Karapax to the test
Thoughts on new iPhone coming out?
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I love both the videos of jerrryrigeverything and the validity of his argument. You cannot form a robust defensible view from a few anecdotes.
Obviously any case adds some protection vs no case. But which case is best?
What I do:
- I have 2 phones, my āflagshipā and my ābeaterā phone, they are different age, different cost.
- I keep my āflagshipā phone in a minimalist case to handle low height scuff type drops.
- if I am entering a situation where accidents are more likely I use my ābeaterā phone.
- if I am leaving home for a long trip (weeks) then go with both phones.
The argument to buy a specific flagship phone and worry about its aesthetics in buying one based on thin-ness, light-ness, and then hide in a thick case is dubious. In your hand you can buy a different older phone no case which is smaller. The whole argument of cases is a weakened when it comes to flagships.
My anecdotes:
- I kept all my phones in cases
- owned so far 6 phones in 5 years (note: the primary / secondary phone idea)
- never broken any phone ever
Other members of my family have broken their phones, I then give them one of mine and I get a new one. Seems to be cheapest overall. I also repair phones, and when I decide which phone to buy, I seek teardown reviews from Jerry (and others) given at some point I would probably be repairing such a phone myself.
I yesterday replaced the battery on a 4 year old designed tablet I got 2 years ago for $89. The replacement battery cost me $10. I used Jerryās teardown video to learn how to replace the battery. So a tablet cost $229 4 years ago, I paid $89 new 2 years ago is now āas newā for $10. That tablet is going to be my āsacrificialā device to be exposed to risks on my next flight where idiot crew and idiot passengers ādo your worseā to drown my $89 tablet in the coffee you spilt āsorry it was an accidentā or the 400LB person who sits on something. My $400 phone is kept away from āaccidentsā.
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That video was probably 4 minutes longer than it needed to be 
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Who preordered?!
Too rich for me. I just canāt justify the cost of upgrading when I have a perfectly working 6s.
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Too rich for my blood and with no Touch IDā¦more than happy with my iPhone 7 128GB which my 6s paid for two thirds of 
Just waiting for the headlines of Appleās best ever sales for a product, stock completely gone (all 2-3 million they could make in time) 
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I have not found a deal in the US that allows trade in! How much did you pay after the trade in? Here itās $549
Sold my 6s on eBay then bought the 7 on John Lewis (two years included warranty)
I caved and preordered the x. Iāll get it on Friday. Now I just need KARAPAX to make a folio case.
I wont be getting either of the new iPhones! Iāve got the 6s at the moment and its doing the job great! Donāt think either the 8 or X have any really exciting new features for me to upgrade to them!
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Iām also apprehensive about having no Touch ID, but did pre-order the X. Will use it as my daily for a week and see how face ID fares against Touch ID for payments and such.
Iām highly doubtful Iāll lose any money using it for a week, given the 5-6week delay to get one here in the UK.
Apple do have a 14 day return policy (used myself in the past), so if it doesnāt workout just return for a refund
I wouldnāt return it I would sell it for twice as much on ebay because you know people will pay anything to hae apples newest and greatest
The going rate on eBay currently is +Ā£300 on top of retail for a 64gb in either colour. Would definitely still get my money back and sell the case Iāve ordered to go with it.
Or be a good samaratin and take it back so someone can have a good day!
Ouch for those on the Three network who plumped for oneā¦
Ouch indeed but then one born every minute. Hence Brexit.
When visiting UK I use Giffgaff, unlimited is Ā£20/month
Buy an unlocked global LTE OnePlus5 when visiting USA for Ā£364. Or almost any phone and youāre still cheaper.
Total cost over 2 years is Ā£844, or Ā£35/month.
Personally even though I have 10GB/month data plan in USA I average about 1.6GB as there is only such you need a phone for and so in UK the Ā£10/month is perfectly adequate which makes phone+network Ā£25/month.
I use about 10-12 gb of data a month, mostly using Spotify and Sirius while driving as well as Waze.
I have unlimited data but get throttled at 22gb. Iāve never hit it but got warnings one month about getting close.
I ordered an iPhone X 256mb. Iām on AT&T Next Every Year program where I pay 39 a month and get a new phone every year with trade in of old one. Basically itās like renting the phone unless you choose not to upgrade every year and then you own it after 2 years. I usually skip the yearly (S) update but didnāt this year since it was a major model change to the X. I would sell my old device and apply towards a new one.
I also use my phone more now than I do a pc except for things like budget software and morning news reading.
I imagine eventually you will just dock to a docking station and the phone will replace your pc all together
Already done
Motorola tried this and failed, So far Samsung has done this right with the Dex dock and allows your phone to replace a pc
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A laptop shell that you slide in your phone as the brain would be awesome
Motorla also did this for a laptop and didnāt fair too well, I believe it was the atria phone they used.
Asus also did something similar with the padphone and converted it to a larger tablet
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