10 Things they dont say when you buy an iPhone

You are out on the market searching for a new mobile, and most people would blindly recommend you an Apple iPhone. When you ask them why is it cool, they'll say , "Oh, because its an iPhone.". Yes, the phone may act as a good status symbol and the latest versions are pretty fast. But that's about it. When you boil down to the finer tech specs, this is what you'll be missing , when you compare to a 10,000 Rs Android phone :

1. No Dual Sim Card Slots : Yes , every basic Android phone worth 5000 INR has a dual sim card slot, but with an iPhone 6/6S you always have to stick with a single sim card (Probably a easier way to make you buy 2 iPhones for 50,000 each)

2. No Radio. So if you're someone who loves to listen to the FM radio, you'd be sorely disappointed

3. No Expandable External Memory  : If your phone comes with a default 16 GB or 32 GB, your available internal memory will be 5GB lesser than that . So you always need to be conscious of that growing space with every photo you click or every song and video you upload through iTunes (iPhone OS updates require atleast couple of GB left for it to do a complete updation, so you need to keep check on that as well . This is also an easy way to make further money by forcing you to buy an expensive Apple iCloud subscription

4. Quality of Lightning Cable : The data/charging cable which is called a lightening cable comes only for 6 months or max 1 year ( if you're lucky) . So get yourself a new cable in your warranty just before the 12th month (even if your existing cable is working fine) so that you can work for another 6-10 months.    The failure rate of the cable after 10 months is nearly 90%. Those new cables come at a hefty price of a min 800-1000 INR

5. The phone doesnt support OTG  cables or OTG Pen drives. OTG pen drives is a dual pen drive which can be used in a laptop and the other end of the drive in a phone ( http://fkrt.it/c7DkGNNNNN).     But iPhone given their different size specifications as well as compatibility doesnt support this.

6. Syncing : File transfer is the biggest thing that you may crib about post getting an iPhone. It'll never be the easy Ctrl C + Ctrl V that you always did in an Android or Windows phone. Files has to be synced to a iTunes app, synced, and then the phone has to be resynced to download those songs or pictures. Every single time ! You may feel better off not listening to those songs than doing the whole sync process

7. No Gorilla Glass Protection: Yes, your 50,000 INR iPhone lasts only until the first accidental drop with no hardened display or gorilla glass protection . The display can easily get shattered even if you use a tempered glass on top of it.. So you need to think whether you need to get a 50K iPhone that can last only one single drop

8. Display Problems : In case you do damage your display accidentally you have the following 2 choices:

• Original Display Replacement: An original iPhone display will not be usually available. In the case of say iPhone 6 or 6s, the iPhone service center will offer you a refurbished iPhone for 24,000 in exchange for your old phone. This refurbished device has no warranty, will not come with any accessory and you have no idea how long it will last. Paying 24K for that is downright ridiculous

• Duplicated Display Replacement :  Unless you live in the metros, getting a replacement display for an iPhone is very tough (Irrespective of which model) . In the big cities, you can only get yourself a duplicate display imported from China in a local bazaar which will cost you roughly 8-10K including labor charges (for iPhone 5C/6/6S). The guy will usually offer you 3 months local warranty and chances are that the display will go off in 6 months is fairly high. Consider yourself lucky if it works for more than a year .

• Get a display from Amazon  http://amzn.to/1Q4LfSE  and get it fixed with a repair center guy

9. Loss of Value : When the next iPhone version gets released, the existing's model retail price will be reduced by almost half and your current phone's valuation goes for a huge nose dive. Eg. iPhone 5S that was selling initially at 50K is now 21K in Flipkart and Amazon

10. Non Bluetooth Tethering : You want to transfer that important photo or song from a friend's phone. Well you cant do that with Bluetooth unless he has an iPhone too