I'd recommend the iPhone 13 Mini because it will give you at least another year of software support and is generally the same phone. The battery on both of these phones are abysmally small so a degraded battery will provide pain.
A warning about the cases: Since Apple has discontinued manufacturer of the phone, they also stopped accessory manufacturing. The chinese have swooped in and they are producing very convincing fakes passed off as authentic. I recently purchased what I thought was a true authentic Apple Silicone case off eBay only to discover weak magsafe performance(the phone kept falling off my car mount).
I discovered to my shock that it was a fake. The packing was nearly identical to real OEM (purchased from Target) and it was only after looking at it with a magnifying glass I discovered packaging print quality issues compared to OEM.
The thing that initially revealed that it was a fake was magnet paper showing a clear difference in magnet design.
FAKE: https://i.imgur.com/9gVy3ks.png (sorry I slightly cropped this image to cover up blurry reflection but the full magnet is showing)
The real is a stronger magnet and designed differently.
Also note: The fake case does the sae Apple "animation" on attachment that a real case does because they have likely cloned the NFC tag from the authentic case.
I'm holding onto my 13 Mini for dear life and have Applecare+ on it so I can get any hardware fixed when needed. This is me just really committing to this mini design cost be damned.
This way I get a new OEM battery every other year or so and I can thrash it as much as I want.
Screen replacements are even wonderful for me but I had to learn the hard way: Upon buying the phone, I got a belkin screen protector and it goes up to the edge of the screen but leaves a tiny gap. Well the phone fell on the ground and hit that tiny gap causing a microcrack in the corner of the screen where the protector wasn't protecting. :/
On replacing the screen, i'm like why bother with the screen protectors when a brand new calibrated OLED screen is only 29$ with my plan.
A quick Google seems to say the opposite? That all the pipes have been replaced but trust remains low despite 9 straight years of testing showing low lead levels.
When this happened during the Bush years I saw a lot of the a same behavior. All these people shut right up when the economy crashed, they went and hid in their caves for a year or so until they pivoted towards hating the Black guy (Obama). The reason being they finally felt a bit of the pain. When the inevitable crash comes from this era, they will all go back into hiding for a while.
Unfortunately this behavior has been a part of a portion of the country for a long time and we will be dealing with these people for the rest of our lives. EU, Canada and the rest talk a big talk about making moves to disconnect from the US. It would be nice to have independent democracies that can take up the mantle if things here need time to correct themselves.
This next time it feels like those same people will hate more than just the Black guy. Many seem to be supremacists who hate all other races and want them deported as a whole - not just the president. The world’s richest person is posting bizarre and disturbing pro white memes daily. And many young GenZ males who follow certain voices on the right seem intent on keeping the flame of racism alive. I agree it will last our whole lives.
Its a losing battle. I guess people don't really know this but Gen Alpha, who are the kids of millennials born 2013-2025 are the first non White majority generation. Its already over and they are just trying to prolong the inevitable for a few more years while the oldest die off.
I don't know how Gen-Z males will fare long term but at this point all available evidence that I've seen shows they are really done with supporting Trump. Will that reflect in long term shift to Dems? Well Bernie type candidates have always done well with Gen Z but what happens if they play games again. I think a major crash that appears to be coming will correct Gen-Z males for a while.
NIMBY would block it. Thats a big problem in the states where anyone would really want to live. Even now after states like NJ ram condos down the throats of old ridgid towns, they haven't given up and are trying anything and everything to stop further development. Its a system build on greed of existing homeowners just trying to offload their properties at maximum profit when they retire and holding back progress until they do so.
No the US is just becoming a laggard in this technology because the investments made with the push of the Biden administration have not panned out and are now having to be written down. Its not just Trump, they wrongly anticipated how much demand there would be in the US. Other regions are making great progress, the US is moving forward but much slower than expected. The US will get there eventually but its going to be on peoples own terms.
He had numerous problems with his early edition Model 3 in the Canadian winter and when complaining about it got into a spat with Musk over it on Twitter. Afterwards all 'access' to Tesla was forever lost I guess. The roadster fiasco came later I think. Roadsters are reserved for friends of Elon only regardless of what referrals they got. THink there is some fine print to disqualify people after the fact. Rich Rebuilds lost his roadster for much more benign things. (Reverse engineering Tesla stuff)
Yes, I have. It has the infamous Android delays, and also conked out in the middle of a trip (this was in a renal); had to stop and start the car and re-pair the phone and navigation never worked again.
2025 model year, less than 20k miles.
I can get an iPad myself and a GPS myself that don’t have these problems.
A warning about the cases: Since Apple has discontinued manufacturer of the phone, they also stopped accessory manufacturing. The chinese have swooped in and they are producing very convincing fakes passed off as authentic. I recently purchased what I thought was a true authentic Apple Silicone case off eBay only to discover weak magsafe performance(the phone kept falling off my car mount).
I discovered to my shock that it was a fake. The packing was nearly identical to real OEM (purchased from Target) and it was only after looking at it with a magnifying glass I discovered packaging print quality issues compared to OEM.
The thing that initially revealed that it was a fake was magnet paper showing a clear difference in magnet design.
FAKE: https://i.imgur.com/9gVy3ks.png (sorry I slightly cropped this image to cover up blurry reflection but the full magnet is showing)
REAL: https://i.imgur.com/0m5AopW.png
The real is a stronger magnet and designed differently.
Also note: The fake case does the sae Apple "animation" on attachment that a real case does because they have likely cloned the NFC tag from the authentic case.
I'm holding onto my 13 Mini for dear life and have Applecare+ on it so I can get any hardware fixed when needed. This is me just really committing to this mini design cost be damned.
This way I get a new OEM battery every other year or so and I can thrash it as much as I want.
Screen replacements are even wonderful for me but I had to learn the hard way: Upon buying the phone, I got a belkin screen protector and it goes up to the edge of the screen but leaves a tiny gap. Well the phone fell on the ground and hit that tiny gap causing a microcrack in the corner of the screen where the protector wasn't protecting. :/
On replacing the screen, i'm like why bother with the screen protectors when a brand new calibrated OLED screen is only 29$ with my plan.
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