Not the point. In Android terms iOS6 wouldn’t even be available for the 4s, or iOS 5.1 for that matter.
Oh yeah, it’s great if you want to constantly fuck with it to get all the basic features to work. Go back a couple pages and look at all the bullshit Fry went through. He might not be the most techy guy here but I’d put his skills WAY above the average user.
Not everyone is like that. Honestly, I don’t actually know that many people that have iphone 5’s. All my co-workers except 1 (the CISO) still have the 4/4s. I have friends that have anywhere from 3gs to 4s. What it comes down to is that the majority of phone owners cannot afford to pay full price. So they wait until their upgrade eligibility.
Not every iPhone owner is an Apple Fanboi.
Then you could say the same thing about cars…“Your car didn’t come with the exhaust you wanted…how lame”, “You had to change the wheels yourself…it should have came with those”. It you want the latest and greatest or to customize it how you want, sometimes you have to fuck with things. I’ve soft bricked my phones before…I keep going.
Yeah, I hear ya.
I have what is now considered a last-generation Nexus phone. I’m still getting updates. It was announced that Google is no longer supporting the Nexus S, though. That device was released in 2010.
The problem is that it’s a crapshoot of whether or not your phone will get the updates. If it’s flagship/top-of-the-line device, it should get updates for 2 years, but how delayed will it be? 6 months is unacceptable. None of that is up to Google though. It’s up the OEM. IMO, none of the OEMs are doing a good job on Android devices at all. Samsung is doing better than the rest, with Motorola right behind and HTC trailing. Motorola is talking the talk right now, but the proof is in the pudding.
I just want to be able to uninstall/disable bloatware and customize how it looks. I use Nova Prime for looks/feel and uninstall as much as I can. If I get any glitches just back up and factory reset. Everyone keeps telling me to root but I really don’t care. Maybe im just getting older but i’m done modifying things. Same goes with cars, for the first time since I was 16 my car is completely stock and it’s great not blowing money on it and worrying if it will start in the morning.
^ Know what 99.9% of iOS users did when they got to work today? Their work, not fuck around backing up their phone because their phone automatically backed up to iCloud when they plugged into the charger the night before. 
your screen looks like shit with that cover on it
but it looks mint without it!
I’ve owned just about everything… Windows Phone 5/6 - BBerry - iPhone 4 - Thunderbolt… iOS was awesome. Everything worked and synched. It was nice.
But I got sick of not being able to customized anything (without jail breaking), the ridiculously small screen, and also I wanted to try out LTE. My phone is still on Gingerbread (yes, random restarts, bugs, and poor battery life) but I have Ice Cream Sandwhich/Cyanogen Mod on my touchpad and I just like it more than I do Apple products. I just like the freedom of rom’ing, customizing, and vast choices of phones which is worth the occasional hiccup to me.
^ That’s some n&*%er shit right there.
apparently he admitted defeat and gave it back. what a dick though
Newest home screen, I did have the icons totally transparent but changed them to blue
EDIT: Not rooted just launcher and widgets.
I have been searching Google and have yet to find a response… my mom has a dumb phone and is due for an upgrade. She wants to keep her contract and phone, but I was thinking why not add data get an iPhone 5 for $199, then drop the data plan and eBay the iPhone. Can you sell an upgraded phone without activating it first?
I had a bionic-- after waiting four hundred years for them to finally release ICS, it blows ass. Rather than deal with it anymore, I bought my friends 3 month old razr maxx for 200 bucks. The battery life is staggering compared to the bionic.
an iPhone is an iPhone…sell it.
easy answer: no. and depending on where you buy there may be an agreement to keep it active on that line for 6 months after you buy due to the subsidy you are getting. These phones cost the stores $600+, they are selling it to customers at a loss up front because the carrier will reimburse them for the contract upgrade renewal. However, more often than not, if you take that new phone off the line, the carrier will either not pay the store or charge them back, meaning the store takes a $400+ loss on your phone.
Online (at least for verizon) is a different story but still requires the phone be activated on the line and a contract renewed. So now your 2 year old phone that you just used the upgrade to flip a phone will now be at the very least ~3.5 years old when you can get a new one.
Verizon will not sell you an upgrade phone without activating it. Tried it 2 nights ago.
Thanks… I am actually going to take her upgrade and get the DNA so that I may keep my unlimited data plan. I can get her a new dumb phone online for almost the subsidy price anyway.
