![]() However, with my first 16GB iPhone since the iPhone 3G (where 16GB was all you could get and it was quite sufficient for the time with much smaller photo resolution and smaller apps) I quickly found out that the "optimise iPhone storage" option for the iCloud Photo Library doesn't quite work as expected. I installed just the bare necessities, but still I was running into problems with the storage even though I took Schiller's advice and used the cloud. Granted, I did have quite a lot of unused apps, so instead of slimming down my backup I decided to start out fresh. I had to forget about restoring my old backup as the device would've been full straight away. It just kills the user experience, something which Apple at least used to hold in high regard. What comes to the 16GB storage, that abomination does not belong in an expensive flagship phone in 2016. The reason why it's powered down is that I first got myself a Nexus 5X from a deal (32GB for 349€, not bad with the prices over here), and just recently got an iPhone 6s from work. The iPhone 6+ is now sitting powered down and waiting for me to decide what to do with it. Quite a lot has happened since the last post. Whoa, it's been a while since the last update. Now if only Apple Pay were available in Finland. However, I don't quite like the price of many Apple's bands, so maybe I'll give some 3rd party bands a try. I also appreciate how easy it is to change the bands. However, getting up and walking to another room would fill my standing ring, so it's a win either way. In addition, even if the apps are quite slow to launch, having a slowly launching Authy on my wrist is still faster and more convenient than getting up and fetching my phone from another room when I need my two-factor authentication. The Apple Watch does these just fine and wins two out of three categories compared to Android Wear. I mainly want to know what time is it (well duh, it's a watch), get my notifications and hopefully also deal with some of them straight away, and track my activity and hopefully motivate me to exercise a little bit more. I didn't use apps that much on my G Watch either. Sure, apps are slow to launch on the watch, but I use them so rarely that it doesn't really matter. Let's just say that I'm happy with the more reliable activity tracking (no more bogus cycling credits for driving my car in a slow traffic), some quite useful glances and the possibility to respond to messages (using canned responses, though) and answer phone calls directly from my watch. I'm not going to do a category-by-category comparison for the simple fact that my Apple Watch gives my G Watch such a severe beating in too many ways that a more serious comparison wouldn't be even funny anymore. However, I've noticed that the gesture for waking up the screen is rather reliable, more so than the G Watch equivalent that I used before just setting it up to display the time constantly. Currently the G Watch wins only in the "display the time constantly" department, as that's something which is not currently possible with the Apple Watch. Sure, there are lots of (maybe clickbait?) articles popping up around the first anniversary of the Apple Watch, but despite all the gloom and doom in the articles, I'm rather happy with mine and so far it seems to beat the LG G Watch Android Wear device I used to wear, and it does so in almost every category. ![]() However, part of the deal was that I'd spend the amount they'd pay for my 6+ on other products from the store, so I thought I'd finally get myself the Apple Watch. Of course the rate they offered wasn't quite the same than what I could get with selling the phone directly to a new owner, but still it was quite decent especially when considering that I'd get to keep all the accessories such as extra Lightning cables (you can't have enough of these lying around) and chargers, so it turned out to be an OK deal. Then I noticed a trade-in program with a Finnish retailer Gigantti. However, secondhand market for the larger iPhones doesn't seem to be as active as the one for the smaller iPhones, and as a result of that I couldn't attract any buyers despite a reasonable price demand. I was thinking about what to do with my now-unused 6+, and I tried to sell it online for a while. Well, after the previous blog post my phone dilemma was solved to the point where the snappiness of the 6s won me over despite the Nexus 5X being more versatile. ![]()
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