My nieces husband couldn’t repair my phone last night they thought it would be best I stuck with Apple as so easy and the swipe action on her mums my sisters android Samsung would be hard with me not moving my fingers ! Anyway this is the good news my niece said her friend 2 doors down is having a sky package with mobile phones and so she going to sell her iPhone 11 and she said to my niece she isn’t on eBay etc and did she know who may want it ? My niece said she had a new battery and screen fitted at the Apple shop last October ! Now is this a good thing or a bad thing how much would have cost her ? She is seeing her today as it got late last night my niece certainly thinks she wouldn’t want more than £100 will let you know more later
If the apple shop near your niece is also listed as an apple authorized service centre, the screen and battery replacement would be about £300 for both the creen and battery. If she had apples care+ cover the repair would have cost about £30 for the screen and battery replacement is free. An authorized repair centre would amost definately of gave your nieces friend a receipt with the apple logo on.
If it was repaired at a general apple phone repair shop you see in town, they would use oem parts and the rapair cast would have been under £150 as they would use non genuine parts.
If you can get it for £100 I would say its a very good buy, as you are getting a 3yr old flagship phone for the budgety end of uncharterd waters android phone 🙂
I’m a bit bemused with the swipe action, moving fingers bit Mike. Android swipes just like an Iphone does, I only have to touch the screen and move/ my finger ever so slightly (small flick) in the direction I want and the it will swipe just as it does on an iphone 13 say, so that has confused me lol. Unless your sister has the screen sensitivity turned right down, then you need to swipe from one end to the other, very tedius! Even a budgety version of samsung should be no different than an Apple in swipping. The only other that would cause that is if your sister as had low quality screen replacement at some point, my bets on the creen sensity turned down!
One other thing Mike with having a phone stollen before, remember the theiving sods are on the look out for flaship android and apple devices, maybe a phone case you can fit a small chain to and then attached to a belt loop may pursuade them to look elsewhere, but if they want it they will have it and its not worth putting your life in danger for these idiots.