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My Samsung S7 is starting to show its age so am looking at replacing it.
New mobile needs to be waterproof / water resistant, have wireless charging.
After the announcement of the new iPhone se, it looks to have everything I need and is a great price, but is there anything else I should look at?
Does anyone have a Samsung S10 Plus, as I can get a brand new one for £535 which isn’t too much more than the iPhone.
Sky mobile are offering the iPhone se for £414 after trading in some data on my sim so first thoughts are it seems a good deal.
The S10e?
Ah didn't realise the s10e was waterproof. Thought it was a stripped down version of the S10
It is - IP68. The S10 Lite isn’t.
https://www.getdroidtips.com/is-samsung-galaxy-s10e-waterproof-device/
I'd go for the Samsung personally but Three are selling the iPhone at RRP sim free. You do have to buy a 10 quid sim but you'll get 15 quid back through quidco and they are also bundling in beats headphones.
Three phones are all unlocked btw.
I've a S10e for sale in the Classifieds (hope I'm ok posting this here)
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I'm typing this on a (superb) S7.
If it died tomorrow I'd get an s10e.
- Waterproof
- Great camera
- Good size (virtually the same box as an s7 but bigger screen)
- Headphone jack
- NO EDGED SCREEN
- Will be supported by Android/Samsung for a long time - amazed about how my s7 has improved over the years.
Boring advice. Keep your s7 until it actually dies/smashes. Replace the battery if needed to give you another 12+ months. It does 99% of what the latest phone actually does.
Some good advice here. My S7 back button hasn’t worked for a few months but I’m still using it ok. Apart from that it’s been great.
I used to upgrade to the newest shiny phone every 18-24 months but this time I kept the S7 and went sim only and I used to have an iPhone 5 and 6 so not worried about going back to Apple
Also I can get an s10+ cheaper than the s10e. But not sure I’d like a phone that big.
The screens on the s10’s look better than the iPhone se.
I went from S7 Edge to Huawei Mate 10 Pro and now have a Samsung A71.
Interestingly the A71 (and presumably all the other current samsung phones) have the "Edge" menu feature and in my case without actually having the edge curvy screen.
I looked at the whole s10 lite vs s10e thing.
Being waterproof, a sensible size (I've had big phones in the past and just under 6 inches is the sweet spot) and having a headphone jack were the things that would be deal breakers for me in favour of the s10e. Saying that, since having the battery replaced in my s7 it's no longer waterproof and I've managed fine.
Having the back button break would enough for a 4 year old upgrade!
Most phones are pretty waterproof.
I inspect railways bridges over watercourses. I've dropped a number of phones in a number of different watercourse and all of them kept working.
Phones with headphones sockets etc nothing remotely "tough".