iPhone from Apple

[Rome]

Have your password ready.  And a gun.

[hbionic]

I've been putting off doing the update on my iphone 5 and ipad 2. Too many horror stories of bricked devices.

When I do decide to do the update, you can bet that I'll do it through itunes, with the device fully backed up and attached to the computer.

What do you mean by 'bricked devices'?

[Diomedes]

a broken  phone that is useful only as a paperweight, or a projectile..it's just a small brick

[phattymatty]

i just ordered the SE through work today. apparently it's just as fast as the 6s but they went back to size and screen of the 5, which was the perfect size. i've only had the 6 for like a year but it's so big i hate it.

[Rome]

I test drove the Galaxy S7 Edge today.  Sorry but that phone blows away any iPhone that's ever been made.  I'm still using my 5S but I'm way out of contract and can get whatever I want now.  Apple better step it the farg up with the 7.

[Susquehanna Birder]

Finally pulled the trigger and updated my iphone 5. Of course, since I had the time, I updated my itunes software, tethered the phone, and backed it up before I started the update. The process took a while, but it looks like everything is working like it's supposed to.

[Sgt PSN]

I test drove the Galaxy S7 Edge today.  Sorry but that phone blows away any iPhone that's ever been made.  I'm still using my 5S but I'm way out of contract and can get whatever I want now.  Apple better step it the farg up with the 7.

There's everything else and then there's Apple.

switching to a samsung?  you farging iphone traitor.

diaf

[Diomedes]

I literally have nothing to do with myself these days, so yeah...

You weren't kidding.

[Sgt PSN]

It's nice being semi-retired.

[Rome]

It's nice being semi-retarded.

FTFY

And seriously, the Galaxy was unreal.  My colleague drop kicked her 6 in favor of it and loves it.  Still sticking with this because everything we have is Apple, but damn it was nice. 

[Sgt PSN]

Lol. I played around with a demo S7 at Best Buy and it is really nice. The VR thing was really cool, too. I'm hooked on the Note series, personally. If Apple ever makes a phone comparable to the Note, I'd probably go back to Apple in a heartbeat. iOS is about 1000x more stable than Android, not to mention that Android updates are exceptionally slow to roll out (depends on your phone model and carrier) where iOS updates are pretty universal with their roll out.   

[Susquehanna Birder]

FWIW...the ipad2 updated without a hitch. Again, I did it via itunes rather than the stand-alone method.

[Sgt PSN]

I think it's pretty awesome that the iPad 2 is still receiving iOS updates. I have an og iPad and it stopped getting iOS updates around the time the iPhone 4 or 4s was released, which I think was only a year or so later.

Can't really add new apps to it (unless the app is old enough that you can install the proper version from iTunes) nor can I update most (maybe all) existing apps.

It's basically a $700 alarm clock/oversized mp3 player at this point.

[Susquehanna Birder]

Yeah, I have an old 3G iphone attached to my alarm clock that is basically a Pandora player. Still works pretty well, too.

I have been playing the Star Wards Galaxy of Heroes game on both my phone and my ipad...and it occasionally crashes on the ipad. Apparently it's a common problem on the ipad2, but nowhere else. Eventually I'm going to have to buck up and get a newer tablet (especially since my screen is slightly cracked). But I've definitely been getting my money's worth out of it.

[Rome]

I use my 4 for exercising.  It's a 16G which means it holds plenty of music.