Recent content by boomer0127

Every six months or so i buy a box of waterproof cases for my phone. Costs me about $3 for 30 snack-size ziplock bags that I use to keep the sweat out of my iPhone when i run. Otherwise, i am naked all the time. iPhones are too beautiful to bulk them up and uglify them in a case...

No case on my SE. Ever. No case on my 5, purchased day of release. Ever. Sure the 5 got nicked a bit over 3.5 years but why make the phone thicker, harder to get out of a pocket, and uglier? The closest thing to a case i use is a snack-size ziploc bag when i run to keep the sweat out.

i live in a no-signal zone for all carriers. Was with ATT when i moved in, they basically said "sorry" when i asked if there was anything they or i could do to make service better. We switched to T-Mobile with the promise of wifi calling 18 months ago only to find out that they did not support...

I run with my SE in my hand ( I put it in a snack size ziplock bag) and cheap earbuds with hooks. I don't think I could run with anything bigger.

The battery life on my SE is incredible. I think part of it is due to the better radio - the cave I work in used to kill my 5 when it spent the day looking for signal. Now I have signal all day - I leave work now at 65% battery when I used to leave at 30%. And yes I put a new battery in my 5 in...

I can confirm in the case of TMobile that swapping SIM resulted in unlocked phone after iTunes restore. Which made me very happy since i bought phone outright and was on a bring your own phone no-contract plan.

pardon my ignorance about cases - i assumed they all had flaps for the lightning port. when i used to bring my 5 in for lint removal, it seemed like the geniuses did not know about lint accumulation and would always comment that i had an extraordinary amount of lint in my phone. I suppose i...

Yes but it does cover quarterly lint removal

Yes. My brand new SE is nakey nakey also. Why make the perfect form factor phone bigger, thicker and hard to retrieve from your pocket? I did get AppleCare just in case, but if 3.5 years of caseless iphone5 is any omen I won't end up using it. Tried and true form factor with tried and true...

I bought a t-mobile 64gb space gray full price. The only thing missing in box was sim tool. Borrowed one from genius. Swapped in my iPhone 5 sim on t-mobile family plan no contract. Got home, restored from iPhone 5 backup, upon restart said congrats your phone is unlocked. Not sure if it is just...

Walked into apple store today, they were sold out of unlocked 64gb space grey. Paid full price for t-mobile 64gb space grey, swapped sims and I am running with no waiting! Phone unlocked when synced to iTunes backup. Woot!

I walked into my local AppleStore, they told me no unlocked SpaceGrey64GB SE. But I saw on the website that I could pick one up if it was a T-Mobile SIM'd phone. After talking to the AppleStoreDood, he said worst case it wouldn't be unlocked, we could give it a shot. Bought phone outright...

My iPhone5 heard that "decent" comment. Please refrain from such negativity. It's bad enough that my little buddy is blocking my access to all SE news and reviews… I need to keep it away from my MBP lest it try to go all Palpy and shut that down also.

Yeah, I absolutely hate putting my sons iphone4 in my pocket with his thick case. Can barely get it out of my pocket! I suppose I am very anal and would never let anything bad happen to my little buddy. Except maybe replace him with a caseless SE. (Sorry little buddy!)

Weird I got my iPhone 5 on release day and NEVER use a real case. It has a few dings on the edges but beyond that the only problem I ever have is lint in the lightning port. I used to bring it to the AppleStore for lint removal while it was under warranty, but now i just use a dental scraper...