Re: new iphone

Marion <marion@facts.com> wrote:

On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 02:53:54 -0000 (UTC), badgolferman wrote :
 
 

Over the weekend we upgraded my wife's iPhone 12 to an iPhone 15. We went
to T-mobile where they had that model for $730. They gave $300 trade-in
offer for her old phone so that dropped the iPhone 15 to $430. I wanted to
pay it off then but they said the promotion is only valid if paid monthly
for two years. That makes it $18 / month for two years.
 
They activated the new phone and sent me home with both phones to perform
the transfer process myself. That took maybe 20 minutes in the store to get
and activate a phone, and another 20 minutes at home to do the transfer. I
got a return package sent in the mail a couple days later to send the old
phone back.
 
It all was fairly simple and time efficient. Phone to phone transfer is
very convenient.

 
Hi badgolferman,
 
I'm glad you had a good experience with T-Mobile replacing your wife's
iPhone 12 for an iPhone 15. I think maybe, if I recall correctly, you got
that iPhone 12 around the time I picked up my free A32-5G from T-Mobile
(way back in about April of 2021, right?). At that time, I picked up what
was essentially a half-price iPhone 12 mini from T-Mobile, as I recall.
<https://i.postimg.cc/Xq5SpS4D/tmopromo02.jpg> $15/mo iPhone,$0/mo Android>
 
While I still have that free A32-5G (albeit I returned it to T-Mobile twice
under warranty as I kept breaking it - so it's really the third one I have
now), that iPhone 12 mini was also traded in a few months ago for an iPhone
15.
 
The iPhone 15 seems to have a brighter screen, and Dynamic Island (which,
as you taught me, is innovative technology that Apple pioneered). Of
course, it has the A16 instead of the A14 CPU. Where the iPhone 15 shines
over the iPhone 12 is the 48Mpx camera is better than that 12Mpx camera in
the iPhone 12. But what I like most is Apple ditched the proprietary
non-standard Lightning garbage in favor of the industry standard USB-C.
 
Everything about that USB-C is better except poor ole' Apple doesn't get to
lock people into their proprietary cabling anymore. I feel sorry for Apple.
 
As for the data transfer, did all your apps come over in the EXACT same
place on your homescreen that they were on the old phone (as mine did after
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Or did you have to manually re-organize your homescreen all over again?
 

As far as I could tell when doing the transfer, everything seemed to be in
place. I think she had to login again to certain apps, put the credit card
CVV codes in again, redo Face ID, establish Bluetooth connections. It
really was quite seamless of a transfer process.