On Friday pre-orders for two of the three new iPhones began. And early indications have the iPhone XS Max being the clear favorite of those who are pre-ordering. But is that the iPhone that you should go for? I say no. Your best bet might be to wait for the iPhone XR as I think that’s the best value for money. Here’s why I feel that way:
- It has most of the features of the other iPhones: While it uses an LCD display (or as Apple calls it a Liquid Retina display) rather than an OLED display, and the back camera is a single lens camera rather than a dual lens camera (but the all the cameras work exactly the same way with the same feature set), and it maxes out at 256GB of storage (the iPhone XS and XS Max top out at 512GB), the insides are pretty much the same. Which means that the power and speed that is on tap is similar or the same as well. Which means that you are not giving up anything much by going with the XR.
- The LCD display (or as Apple calls it a Liquid Retina display) is larger than the iPhone XS at 6.1″ while at the same time it is physically smaller than the iPhone 8 Plus by a wee bit.
- It has better battery life than the iPhone XS and it might be competitive with the iPhone XS Max as well.
- You get more color choices with the iPhone XR so that you can express your individuality.
- The thing that tops it all off is the fact that the iPhone XR is cheaper than the XS or XS Max. That makes it much better value for money. Which Apple would prefer that you didn’t notice.
All of that makes the iPhone XR the iPhone to get. So unless you really want an OLED display or a 6.5″ display, you should wait until mid October to get your hands on an iPhone XR.
Do you agree with me, or do you think that I have this completely wrong? Please leave a comment and share your thoughts.
EXCLUSIVE: The Nightmare Of Rogers And The Apple Watch Continues As Business Customers Discover That They Can’t Use The Apple Watch With Business Plans
Posted in Commentary with tags Rogers on September 17, 2018 by itnerdWell, just when you thought that Rogers was about to get past their ongoing issues of bringing Apple Watch support to their network comes news that business customers can’t get the Apple Watch added to their plans. I came across this Tweet a few minutes ago while monitoring reactions to the launch of Apple Watch support on the Rogers network. I had to blank out some of the content as I like to think this is a safe for work blog:
Upon seeing this, I pinged some of my contacts within Rogers who speak to me on background. They confirmed that Rogers doesn’t support business customers at this time. The thing is that Rogers had to have seen what happened to Telus who tripped over the same issue and who had to scramble to get that sorted in a hurry. Thus for Rogers to not take that into account and launch something that is strictly consumer focused is incredibly short sighted on their part. You have to wonder what they were thinking. In the meantime, if you’re a business customer who wants an Apple Watch, Telus seems to be your only option at the moment.
UPDATE: I got this from a Rogers customer.
I am guessing that’s what business users are seeing when they try to activate. If that’s not enough, I am now getting reports of people of all account types having issues activating period. There’s an example of that in the comments section. This is clearly not going well for Rogers at all.
UPDATE #2: Thanks to the loyal readers that pointed out that Bell supports the Apple Watch with LTE on business accounts as well. Unlike Rogers who continues to quote 2019 as a date that business accounts will be supported:
You really have to wonder what is going on at Rogers HQ these days as this is just mind blowing that this is happening at all.
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