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iPhone 5s

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 22:28:59 GMT

I see there are some offers on the iPhone 5s. I was just wondering whether it would be worth buying a 5s?

Does it still run well and would it do so for the full contract length? Given that it is an older phone now.

Any current 5s owners?

Re: iPhone 5s

MI5 — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 22:32:18 GMT

I'm still using a 32gb 5 as my travel phone so a 5s would be a step up for me.
It's running iOS10 with no problem at all.
The prices for a 5s are very attractive at the mo.

Re: iPhone 5s

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 22:36:37 GMT

Also if you like the size & shape of the 5S then they are doing some decent deals on the SE at present

Re: iPhone 5s

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 22:39:46 GMT

Yeah I was looking at the £15 and £18 a month contract. Not bad. Trouble is it's only the 16GB model and I'd want to carry some music.

Do you know if the 5 can run Pokemon go? I tried it on an old 4s but it wouldn't load.

@Anonymous Thanks I'll check that out.

Re: iPhone 5s

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 22:42:36 GMT

Yes you should be able to run Pokemon go if you have iOS 10 installed on the device @Anonymous

Re: iPhone 5s

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 22:48:23 GMT

Thanks. I had a look but I'll need give o2 a ring tomorrow and see what I can do. I don't want to lose my current tariff and there doesn't seem to be an offer with either phone with the same deal.

Re: iPhone 5s

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 22:50:37 GMT

If you had the means you could buy the phone sim free & just sim swap to a nano sim.

Re: iPhone 5s

MI5 — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 22:54:43 GMT

Forget 16gb - they fill up and slow down too quickly.

Re: iPhone 5s

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 22:58:15 GMT

Too right. I'm thinking of upgrading to a higher GB iPhone 6S soon

Re: iPhone 5s

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 23:06:45 GMT

True, probably for the best. Really hoped it would be alright though as the price was so low!

Re: iPhone 5s

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 23:08:12 GMT

Good luck @Anonymous & welcome to the forum

Re: iPhone 5s

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 23:16:41 GMT

@Anonymous Thanks!

Re: iPhone 5s

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 17:20:15 GMT

Ah I phoned today. But the SE is more than I'd like to pay and if I upgrade I will lose my free o2 to o2 calls. Not sure what to do. Although that said it looks like my free o2 to o2 calls were just a goodwill added bolt on last year anyway so I'll lose them in anycase. :S

Going to have to do a bit of shopping around and seeing whats out there.

Re: iPhone 5s

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 18:21:34 GMT

The free o2-o2 calls will be in your inclusive allowance @Anonymous

Re: iPhone 5s

JackJarvisEsq — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 17:07:27 GMT

Ended up just going for the 5s, if it becomes unbearably slow I'll just pay off the refresh balance quicker and upgrade. But hopefully the 5s will still be a good phone in 2018

Oh yeah, and this is my proper account! The above one is one for an old payg sim I had. What a disaster!

Re: iPhone 5s

MI5 — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 18:05:44 GMT

Just don't fill it up with photos and pull your music in from iTunes as you need it rather than downloading your entire library and you should be OK.
Try and keep at least 2gb free at all times.

Re: iPhone 5s

JackJarvisEsq — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 19:35:58 GMT

Will do, thanks for the advice @MI5 and all. I think I will go olod skool and make a playlist of music limited to 1-2GB (depending on what available space there actually is.)

Re: iPhone 5s

MI5 — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 19:39:40 GMT

The OS is only about 3gb