IPHONE 5C is it worth it?

neil40

In a word: no!.
I would say 4s is a better handset.

baby_frogmella

neil40 wrote: »

In a word: no!.
I would say 4s is a better handset.

How is the 4S better than a 5/5C?

Rusty!

neil40 wrote: »

In a word: no!.
I would say 4s is a better handset.

Then you clearly have no idea what you're talking about.

mummyroysof3

I like my 5c but then I had a 3GS before for a year so it would be better than that anyway lol

DevCoder

Apple have already halved the output of the 5C from 300K units to 150K units per day due to slow uptake.

MillicentBystander

krisdorey wrote: »

Apple have already halved the output of the 5C from 300K units to 150K units per day due to slow uptake.

Thank you for the back up. My words seemed to be falling on deaf ears This is a moneysaving site, the 5C, by Apple standards, has been a very poor seller with 10s of thousands of unsold stock on retailers' shelves. You don't have to be Einstein to realise that the price of the thing (now made of plastic like many a budget Android phone) is putting punters off (even Apple punters!) so there is only one outcome here. It will have to be discounted. Simples. So why would anybody who inhabits a money saving site buy it now?

DevCoder

Linkage
http://www.gsmarena.com/apple_iphone_5c_production_reportedly_halved-news-6957.php
amongst the other sites reporting it today

The 5C is against the Apple ethos imo, people pay the extra money not because they are getting superior hardware specs (the 64bit processor doesn't add virtually anything to competition), but because they are getting something of beauty and style.

I have a iPad and an iMac (and as a IT person of near on 25 years now I would never have bought an all in one pc but the iMac 2012 was just so beautiful it over-rode that "don't buy" feeling)

My phone is the HTC one, again something which is style over substance. Unfortunately us humans like pretty shiny things, the prettier and shinier the better and this is where Apple have fallen down with the 5C imo especially as they haven't priced it right. The 5C should be priced at £200-250, not at £100 off the price of a full blooded 5S.

neil40

For one the 4s has better headphone volume when listening to music.Both 5c and 5s with full volume sound like half volume on 4s.

baby_frogmella

neil40 wrote: »

For one the 4s has better headphone volume when listening to music.Both 5c and 5s with full volume sound like half volume on 4s.

That's strange as i haven't noticed any difference in audio volume levels when going from a 4S to 5S. Anyway the 4S is still a very good phone so enjoy it

baby_frogmella

krisdorey wrote: »

The 5C should be priced at £200-250, not at £100 off the price of a full blooded 5S.

Actually the 5S is priced only £80 more than 5C so its a no brainer if buying sim-free from Apple, as the 5S's hardware is far superior especially the graphics - iPhone 5s Benchmarks: Twice As Fast As iPhone 5.

IMHO the 5C should have been priced around the £350 mark because its still a very good phone.