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iPhone 7 or iPhone 8?

Hayat55

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Hi, I sold my note 5 about a month ago and was looking to upgrade to the iphone 7. When I buy a new phone I normally keep the phone for about 8 months until the new one comes out (the following september). However, a lot of people and articles on the internet are saying to 'get the iPhone 8 if you want big changes'. Now I'm confused. I need a good new flagship phone. Should I get the iphone 7 or wait for the iphone 8?
 

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Based on what you have posted (and your history of how you "keep a phone"), get the iPhone 7 now (when it is released) and then get the iPhone 8 next year when it is released.

Each one will be the "flagship" phone. (Although I have never understood why that is important.)
 

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The 7 will be launched in the coming weeks. If you wait for the 8, you are looking at over a year before it comes out.

Since you only keep a phone for 8 or so months, you might as well get the 7 now and by the time you are ready to upgrade, the 8 will be out in a few months.

Not sure if you have ever owned iPhone before. Unlike android where new phones are launching all of the time, we are relegated to a yearly upgrade cycle.
 

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Until the iPhone 6 I bounced from phone to phone nonstop. I sold my 6 to get the 6 Plus after just 3 months but I have been very happy with my 6 Plus so I just stuck with it. Now however I'm ready to upgrade and I. CANNOT. FLIPPIN'. WAIT!!! And I think it's made worse by my getting an iPad Pro 9.7 because now I am catching little tiny glimpses of what the iPhone 7 might do especially with respect to the pencil.

Sooooooo I'm sitting on hot coals now. I don't think I'll do the camp out this year though, but I'll be ordering at 1 second past midnight and stalking the delivery guy like a bear on the prowl, lol.

And so it begins. Again.
 

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I wouldn't listen to the internet over the 2018 phone. It may or may not be this huge sea-changing machine. If you upgrade regularly, get the 7 and plan on the 7s next year. Or if you like fires, buy the note 7!
 

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The 7 will be launched in the coming weeks. If you wait for the 8, you are looking at over a year before it comes out.

Since you only keep a phone for 8 or so months, you might as well get the 7 now and by the time you are ready to upgrade, the 8 will be out in a few months.

Not sure if you have ever owned iPhone before. Unlike android where new phones are launching all of the time, we are relegated to a yearly upgrade cycle.

I did have the iphone 6 plus before my note 5.
 

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Until the iPhone 6 I bounced from phone to phone nonstop. I sold my 6 to get the 6 Plus after just 3 months but I have been very happy with my 6 Plus so I just stuck with it. Now however I'm ready to upgrade and I. CANNOT. FLIPPIN'. WAIT!!! And I think it's made worse by my getting an iPad Pro 9.7 because now I am catching little tiny glimpses of what the iPhone 7 might do especially with respect to the pencil.

Sooooooo I'm sitting on hot coals now. I don't think I'll do the camp out this year though, but I'll be ordering at 1 second past midnight and stalking the delivery guy like a bear on the prowl, lol.

And so it begins. Again.

Lol your comment had me cracking up laughing because I honestly feel the same way!!! :laughing::big-hug:
 

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If you just sold your Note 5, buy the iPhone 7. And according to you, you upgrade your phone every eight months. You buy the iPhone 7 now and then get the iPhone 8. I currently have a 6s plus and I'm not gonna upgrade for the 7. Maybe the 8 because I want a whole new design. So I recommend you to do it. But the iPhone 7 now and then the 8.
 
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If you are willing to wait for the iPhone 7s or iPhone 8. Then wait. Obviously it will be in some shape or form better than the previous version. But, the iPhone 7 or iPhone 6SE looks to be a solid device and would be well worth it.
 

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One good thing for me if I choose to do the 6s Plus my case will still work, not so if I get the 7 Plus. The camera assembly on the back of the phone would instantly make most cases currently on the market obsolete for the iPhone 7 Plus.
 

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