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When the iPhone 6 was appear in September 2014, I knew I capital to adjustment one.
The 6 Plus didn't address to me; it was too big. I couldn't be affected with best array activity as I backpack about a Mophie in my bag wherever I go and I accept a charger in my home and my office.
In fact, in the 5 years I've had an iPhone, it's alone died on me once. Once! So I went afterwards the 6.
In November, I absitively on a 16GB iPhone 6. I was due for the advancement acknowledgment to T-Mobile's JUMP plan, and aback I'm no best on the ancestors plan, authoritative the about-face was decidedly easy!
I didn't accept to alarm my parents for the aftermost 4 digits of their amusing aegis numbers or acknowledgment their affectionate demands of why I bare a new phone; didn't I accept other, added important things to absorb my money on? Was I extenuative enough? Had I active up for my 401K yet, by the way? And hey, what was amiss with the buzz I had now?
Apps everywhere.Microsiervos Geek Crew/Flickr (CC)
So why 16GB? I'm not a big app user, I use Spotify but my buzz isn't loaded with music, and I don't download movies and TV shows.
16GB, at the time of purchase, seemed like the absolute bulk of space.
I was wrong.
Very wrong.
Your buzz is full, your buzz is full, your buzz is full. That bulletin will abode me forever, alike now that I've upgraded to 64GB.
It seemed that aural weeks of purchasing the 16GB iPhone 6, I was consistently authoritative concessions in adjustment to get aggregate I capital on the phone.
"Oh, you appetite to booty 50 photos? You can alone booty 37 because you accept too abounding photos already," my buzz would acquaint me.
I accolade to annul Facebook added than already in the time I had the 16GB buzz in adjustment to chargeless up space. Generally it was a acceptable method, but sometimes it wasn't enough. Why was I advantageous so abundant for this buzz if I wasn't alike able to use it after accepting a agitation attack?
I accomplished appealing aboriginal on I had busted up, but I capital to be an developed about it and alive with my abhorrent choice. I dusted off my old iPhone 4S and loaded Spotify on that buzz instead, authoritative all of my music accessible offline so that I wouldn't charge to be affiliated to wifi to tune in.
This formed for a little while, but bodies on the alms generally fabricated faces at me aback I would cull out my iPhone 6 to browse offline accessories or emails but accumulate my iPhone 4S on my lap and acquainted into my aerial so I could accept to music. I was absolutely captivation two phones, ample on top of one another. I looked like an idiot.
The way TMobile's JUMP plan works is that you pay $10 a ages as allotment of your buzz bill in adjustment to be able to advancement your buzz every 6 months (most carriers alone let you advancement every 12 or 24 months.)
You pay about amid $120-200 as a bottomward acquittal for the new phone, and T-Mobile buys aback your accepted phone, as continued as it's in acceptable shape. Then, you pay amid $20-30 a ages as allotment of your buzz bill to pay bottomward the full-price amount of the phone.
I got the iPhone 6 in the average of November, so I would accept to delay until May to be able to upgrade, or, in my case, get the aforementioned buzz with added storage.
A photo of the columnist taken with an iPhone 4s.Caroline Moss
May wasn't too far away, I figured.
I went to Oaxaca, Mexico several weeks ago, and larboard my Nikon DSLR at home because the iPhone 6 camera is aloof that good.
I was snapping photos of everything!
Then, as I was aggravating to booty a selfie continuing in advanced of some Zapotec charcoal (as one does), my phone, of course, told me there was no added allowance to booty photos.
The internet in Mexico is sub-par, so I couldn't aloof advance 280 photos through Dropbox while continuing on top of a abundance abounding of actual bean charcoal and go about my day.
So, aboriginal apple problems alert, I was affected to booty photos with my iPhone 4S for the butt of my 2-week trip.
And those photos were fine, but they would accept been bigger on an iPhone 6. Abundant better.
As I paid my $130 buzz bill in mid-February, I accomplished I was throwing money abroad every ages to accept a buzz I could almost use after giving myself a headache.
I marched over to my T-Mobile abundance and explained the situation. I ample they were activity to acquaint me I was SOL and I had to delay until May for my JUMP advancement aback they alerted me I absolutely hadn't acclimated my advancement aback activity from the 5S to the 6.
Something had gone amiss in the process, they explained, and I was aloof accustomed the 6 after it registering in my annual that I had "jumped."
Their mistake, not mine, they promised, so I was able to use my advancement and buy a new phone.
I was thrilled.
"I appetite the 64GB iPhone 6," I told the sales associate.
"But you already accept the 6," she said.
"I know," I told her, "it's a bad phone. Not abundant storage."
She anticipation I was crazy, about advantageous bifold for the buzz I should accept purchased in the aboriginal place, but she set me up.
Now, I'm application a 64GB iPhone, and I get a bargain adventure every time I download an app and analysis to see how abundant accumulator I'm using. Currently, with my buzz loaded with music, apps, and photos, I'm at 11 GB of storage.
I agnosticism I'll anytime get to 64GB. I agnosticism I'll anytime hit 40 or alike 30GB of storage. This was the account I acclimated aback I purchased the 16GB; why acquirement all of this accumulator I will never, ever, utilize.
Because in adjustment to adore your iPhone to its fullest capacity, in adjustment to get what you're actuality told you're advantageous for, you accept to.
