The iPhone Thread

Pancham · 17th May 2019, 16:10

I went with the White one. Looks pretty good. Mine is the 128 GB variant. Overall I am quite happy with the phone. Does 95% of what the XS would have done at 50% of the price.

ValarMorghulis · 17th May 2019, 18:12

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Originally Posted by Pancham

I went with the White one. Looks pretty good. Mine is the 128 GB variant. Overall I am quite happy with the phone. Does 95% of what the XS would have done at 50% of the price.

Trust me, the Xs holds its fort for the price

hyper-VTEC · 17th May 2019, 22:39

I use an Airtel SIM for office/Bank and Jio (Prepaid) for personal use. Is it wise to use the Airtel in eSIM or vice-versa? Is there is pros an cons between the esim and regular SIM?I mean from connectivity, ease of use etc. My work would depend on Airtel

AShubrah · 18th May 2019, 01:15

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Originally Posted by hyper-VTEC

I use an Airtel SIM for office/Bank and Jio (Prepaid) for personal use. Is it wise to use the Airtel in eSIM or vice-versa? Is there is pros an cons between the esim and regular SIM?I mean from connectivity, ease of use etc. My work would depend on Airtel

I’ve been using a Jio eSIM and an Airtel physical SIM on my iPhone Xs Max for the past two months and it’s been working flawlessly, just as any regular dual-SIM device would work.
My brother is using the opposite setup, i.e - Airtel eSIM & Jio physical SIM, and he hasn’t faced any problems either.

hyper-VTEC · 18th May 2019, 07:07

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Originally Posted by AShubrah

I’ve been using a Jio eSIM and an Airtel physical SIM on my iPhone Xs Max for the past two months and it’s been working flawlessly, just as any regular dual-SIM device would work.
My brother is using the opposite setup, i.e - Airtel eSIM & Jio physical SIM, and he hasn’t faced any problems either.

Thanks. How easy or hard is it to revert back to regular SIM from eSIM? Anyone tried? Hope Jio prepaid offers eSIM, since mine is a prepaid number

Puneet.S · 18th May 2019, 11:03

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Originally Posted by hyper-VTEC

Thanks. How easy or hard is it to revert back to regular SIM from eSIM? Anyone tried? Hope Jio prepaid offers eSIM, since mine is a prepaid number

eSIM is treated as any other SIM in telco's system. You need to apply for a SIM reissue if you wish to change back to a physical SIM from eSIM.

riteshritesh · 18th May 2019, 11:18

What I would suggest is, use your mandatory sim, the one that you would take out on International Roaming, as your e-sim. The removable slot can be used to use a physical sim, incase you travel abroad and want to use a local sim.

AShubrah · 18th May 2019, 11:45

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Originally Posted by hyper-VTEC

Thanks. How easy or hard is it to revert back to regular SIM from eSIM? Anyone tried? Hope Jio prepaid offers eSIM, since mine is a prepaid number

I don’t know anything about reverting back to a regular SIM from an eSIM, as I haven’t tried it yet.
As far as Jio is concerned, they do offer an eSIM for prepaid, as well as postpaid customers.

hyper-VTEC · 20th May 2019, 07:35

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Originally Posted by riteshritesh

What I would suggest is, use your mandatory sim, the one that you would take out on International Roaming, as your e-sim. The removable slot can be used to use a physical sim, incase you travel abroad and want to use a local sim.

Only issue in using the primary one as eSIM is if the phone stops working or screen breaks, I will be stuck for 1-2 days without getting important calls or not be able to do any transaction at banks etc. till i get an alternate physical SIM from Service Provider

motorworks · 20th May 2019, 08:34

Just to add to the whole E-Sim discussion, I have been using a Jio E-sim as my personal connection for the last 7 months now. I also had an office Jio sim as the physical sim. Recently, I changed jobs, so had to let go off the physical sim and had only the E-sim as my only connection for about 2 weeks. In these 2 weeks where I had only the E-sim, I experienced some lag in connectivity, my location was showing in an older location in many instances. I had to switch off and switch on to get this right. Could be a coincidence that I had poor network connectivity, but during this time my other apps which depend on data worked seamlessly. Only location based apps such as find my iPhone, google maps and Ola had such issues.
But it did get resolved post a few days. And I have now got a physical Airtel sim too.

landcruiser123 · 20th May 2019, 13:04

I was getting pretty annoyed with the battery life of my iPhone 8s 18xx mAh battery. Finally bit the bullet and bought a USB-C to lightning wire and used it with my pixelbook adapter.

Boy oh boy! The fast charging speeds are incredible. I think it's stupid of apple not to highlight that fast charging is a feature built into iPhone 8 and later models. Most people would appreciate that over wireless charging.

hyper-VTEC · 22nd May 2019, 08:40

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Originally Posted by landcruiser123

I was getting pretty annoyed with the battery life of my iPhone 8s 18xx mAh battery. Finally bit the bullet and bought a USB-C to lightning wire and used it with my pixelbook adapter.

Boy oh boy! The fast charging speeds are incredible. I think it's stupid of apple not to highlight that fast charging is a feature built into iPhone 8 and later models. Most people would appreciate that over wireless charging.

I agree. I am using the regular USB to Lightning cable and my Anker 18W POwerbank to charge and it fills up the XR so fast. I didn't even bother to take out the 5W charger from the box

Pancham · 22nd May 2019, 10:27

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Originally Posted by hyper-VTEC

I agree. I am using the regular USB to Lightning cable and my Anker 18W POwerbank to charge and it fills up the XR so fast. I didn't even bother to take out the 5W charger from the box

Hi. Can you post links of the above mentioned items?

extreme_torque · 22nd May 2019, 10:49

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Originally Posted by landcruiser123

I was getting pretty annoyed with the battery life of my iPhone 8s 18xx mAh battery. Finally bit the bullet and bought a USB-C to lightning wire and used it with my pixelbook adapter.

Boy oh boy! The fast charging speeds are incredible. I think it's stupid of apple not to highlight that fast charging is a feature built into iPhone 8 and later models. Most people would appreciate that over wireless charging.

Fast charging is actually harmful for the battery and therefore I only use my iPad's charger to charge my iPhone XS when I do not have time. For the rest of the time, I put my iPhone XS on the wireless charger before I go to sleep. The wireless charger is connected to the 5W iPhone charger and takes a good 4-5 hours but then again, do I care when I am sleeping?

landcruiser123 · 22nd May 2019, 11:08

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Originally Posted by extreme_torque

Fast charging is actually harmful for the battery ...

If you look at it that way, battery charging is harmful for battery health. iPhone 8 and newer are designed for fast charging, so I expect the usual number of working cycles with no significant degradation in battery life.

Experts correct me if I'm wrong.

17th May 2019, 16:10	#11761
Pancham Senior - BHPian Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Kolkata/NCR Posts: 1,844 Thanked: 3,154 Times	Re: The iPhone Thread I went with the White one. Looks pretty good. Mine is the 128 GB variant. Overall I am quite happy with the phone. Does 95% of what the XS would have done at 50% of the price.
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17th May 2019, 22:39	#11763
hyper-VTEC BHPian Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Bengal...ooroo Posts: 658 Thanked: 280 Times View My Garage	Re: The iPhone Thread I use an Airtel SIM for office/Bank and Jio (Prepaid) for personal use. Is it wise to use the Airtel in eSIM or vice-versa? Is there is pros an cons between the esim and regular SIM?I mean from connectivity, ease of use etc. My work would depend on Airtel
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18th May 2019, 11:18	#11767
riteshritesh BHPian Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Mumbai Posts: 574 Thanked: 772 Times	Re: The iPhone Thread What I would suggest is, use your mandatory sim, the one that you would take out on International Roaming, as your e-sim. The removable slot can be used to use a physical sim, incase you travel abroad and want to use a local sim.
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20th May 2019, 08:34	#11770
motorworks Senior - BHPian Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Bangalore Posts: 1,837 Thanked: 4,341 Times View My Garage	Just to add to the whole E-Sim discussion, I have been using a Jio E-sim as my personal connection for the last 7 months now. I also had an office Jio sim as the physical sim. Recently, I changed jobs, so had to let go off the physical sim and had only the E-sim as my only connection for about 2 weeks. In these 2 weeks where I had only the E-sim, I experienced some lag in connectivity, my location was showing in an older location in many instances. I had to switch off and switch on to get this right. Could be a coincidence that I had poor network connectivity, but during this time my other apps which depend on data worked seamlessly. Only location based apps such as find my iPhone, google maps and Ola had such issues. But it did get resolved post a few days. And I have now got a physical Airtel sim too.
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20th May 2019, 13:04	#11771
landcruiser123 Senior - BHPian Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: Chicago Posts: 3,002 Thanked: 6,921 Times	Re: The iPhone Thread I was getting pretty annoyed with the battery life of my iPhone 8s 18xx mAh battery. Finally bit the bullet and bought a USB-C to lightning wire and used it with my pixelbook adapter. Boy oh boy! The fast charging speeds are incredible. I think it's stupid of apple not to highlight that fast charging is a feature built into iPhone 8 and later models. Most people would appreciate that over wireless charging.
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