And it’s perfect!

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    1 year ago

    One of my biggest gripes with using old iPhones and iPads as offline media devices is that Apple is extremely stingy with storage space so most likely these old phones only have 16/32GB of storage, making them a pain in the ass to curate a media library in them.

    If only they had expandable storage. But they don’t even support mounting SD cards directly from an external adapter, you have to import the media in bulk, making them useless.

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      1 year ago

      If you’re like me and use old phones at home while on Wi-Fi, you could have a media app that streams content from a NAS on your LAN.

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    1 year ago

    Maaan that sharp screen and case design made me wanna switch back from my 13pro! Hold me back people don’t let me do that silly move🤯

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    1 year ago

    I love this. Serious question(s). Does it still have cell service? Im curious how the music will play and if you need to download the songs. And if the tracking and fitness has to wait and update when you get to WiFi.

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      1 year ago

      No cell service. No SIM card. Strava tracks the runs via GPS and saves them, but then uploads them to the Strava profile upon connecting to the WiFi. I don’t use Apple music subscription, I have my own music that I sync via iTunes…

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    1 year ago

    That’s awesome, and that’s what I’m gonna do with my old iPhone 6s PS: I switched to Android recently

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      1 year ago

      It is awesome (did the same thing with a 6s) no need for being constantly interrupted by text messages or emails or other distractions while running/exercising

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    1 year ago

    Amazing simplicity! So when you get a text message, it doesn’t show here because you deleted the message app right?

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      1 year ago

      15 is too big and I don’t like running with it on my arm. I wish I still had my old iPod Nano, not sure why Apple stopped producing those.

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      1 year ago

      Unfortunately I no longer have a real iPod (I used to have a Nano back in 2007.) and my current iPhone 15 is kind of too big / annoying when attached to my arm while running, so this was the best solution I could come up with.

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      1 year ago

      If they get robbed theyd much rather their old iphone 7 be stolen than a brand new more valuable/expensive phone.