Hey folks, this week my iphone 7 died, This is what I normally use for making videos etc so its an important piece of equipment.
This is a known component failure that apple will fix for free, with a lot of hassle on my part. I am about done with tech hassles at the moment so I am leaning towards replacing the phone and figure some of you folks might have some experience and advice to offer, maybe not. We'll see.
Originally I thought of just upgrading to another iphone but first, I am annoyed with apple at this point because the restrictive nature and the service is just not great. Even so the airdrop feature is very convenient for the video work, between the phone and the macbook etc. Even with annoyance I might have upgraded to another iphone for jut that reason, but when I looked all of the current offerings for iphones have face ID and no finger print ID which is not only Orwellian and creepy, but also now extremely impractical with Covid, and I just dont like having to hold the phone to my face to open it. It's just unnecessarily tech-flashy and silly. But they ALL have that. The last iphone to have finger print sensor is the iphone 8 and they are only available by third party refurbishers without warranty.
Allegedly the iphone 13 is going back to finger print sensor but I cannot wait as my phone is right now, a dead piece of junk, so I must act. I started looking into android, may be a good time to break the apple reliance. I started looking at Samsung because I believe they make some decent quality, and I know next to nothing about any other Android makers. The issue with Samsung is that they appear to mostly make fairly huge phones, and I like things that are easier to use with one hand. SO they do have a somewhat recent model that is smaller with good features, the Galaxy S10E, but as far as I can find that also can only be bought "certified pre-owned" from either Samsung (maybe a better option) or third parties which dont look good.
I am considering the Galaxy S10E refurbished by samsung because it has a warranty, but I would like anyone's advice on whether that is a good idea if they have experience with the company, the model or the 'pre-owned' phones. Important is that I am only buying unlocked CDMA phones at this time. If anyone has advice about what other good android makers and models might be for not huge phones with exceptionally good video and camera I would like to know. The iphone 7 has a very good video camera, what I replace it with has to be better, not just pixels but video lens etc.
What say ye?
This is a known component failure that apple will fix for free, with a lot of hassle on my part. I am about done with tech hassles at the moment so I am leaning towards replacing the phone and figure some of you folks might have some experience and advice to offer, maybe not. We'll see.
Originally I thought of just upgrading to another iphone but first, I am annoyed with apple at this point because the restrictive nature and the service is just not great. Even so the airdrop feature is very convenient for the video work, between the phone and the macbook etc. Even with annoyance I might have upgraded to another iphone for jut that reason, but when I looked all of the current offerings for iphones have face ID and no finger print ID which is not only Orwellian and creepy, but also now extremely impractical with Covid, and I just dont like having to hold the phone to my face to open it. It's just unnecessarily tech-flashy and silly. But they ALL have that. The last iphone to have finger print sensor is the iphone 8 and they are only available by third party refurbishers without warranty.
Allegedly the iphone 13 is going back to finger print sensor but I cannot wait as my phone is right now, a dead piece of junk, so I must act. I started looking into android, may be a good time to break the apple reliance. I started looking at Samsung because I believe they make some decent quality, and I know next to nothing about any other Android makers. The issue with Samsung is that they appear to mostly make fairly huge phones, and I like things that are easier to use with one hand. SO they do have a somewhat recent model that is smaller with good features, the Galaxy S10E, but as far as I can find that also can only be bought "certified pre-owned" from either Samsung (maybe a better option) or third parties which dont look good.
I am considering the Galaxy S10E refurbished by samsung because it has a warranty, but I would like anyone's advice on whether that is a good idea if they have experience with the company, the model or the 'pre-owned' phones. Important is that I am only buying unlocked CDMA phones at this time. If anyone has advice about what other good android makers and models might be for not huge phones with exceptionally good video and camera I would like to know. The iphone 7 has a very good video camera, what I replace it with has to be better, not just pixels but video lens etc.
What say ye?