Where to get an iPhone 5s for dev purposes?

**d000hg** · 23 January 2015, 15:06

eBay could be as good as anywhere, but I thought you could still buy the 5S on contract or new from the regular places?

Why the 5S specifically?

**monoceros** · 26 January 2015, 08:30

Tesco Mobile still offers the 5S (and 4!).

Alternatively DeviceAnywhere (though the setup costs may be higher than you want).

**Boo** · 26 January 2015, 22:33

Thanks for the replies, DeviceAnywhere is not what I am looking for - I really need something to hand to do my testing on without the complications of remote working and not knowing whether it's the phone or the connection that's busted. I can see the attraction for testing on multiple device types after initial proving though.

Reason for the 5S is it supports 32GB which I think is a better bet for a test platform than 8GB which is all the 5c supports. It also has the motion processor which seems to be Apple's plan going forwards, don't know what difference it makes exactly but...

Boo

**PerfectStorm** · 26 January 2015, 23:46

iPhone 5s 32GB Gold Unlocked - Apple Store (UK)

**d000hg** · 27 January 2015, 08:18

The 5c supports more than 8Gb, and that seems an odd reason unless your app is going to be gigantic... how does the phone storage affect anything?

A 5 would be an alternative to the 5c if cash is an issue but if you just want to limit your testing to the (nearly) newest hardware (most iPhone users don't have a 5s or newer yet) the 5s is probably a good cost/newness tradeoff.

**Uncle Albert** · 27 January 2015, 09:14

CEX https://uk.webuy.com/search/index.ph...ne+5s&section=

**yasockie** · 28 January 2015, 17:03

You can get iPhone 5C on o2 contract and then unlock and then 'pay off' the contract. You get the brand new phone for ca £200

**Boo** · 30 January 2015, 13:36

Originally posted by yasockie View Post

You can get iPhone 5C on o2 contract and then unlock and then 'pay off' the contract. You get the brand new phone for ca £200

Afaik all 5c phone on uk contracts are 8GB ? I want 32GB as per OP. I also want the phone to have the motion processor as that seems to be Apple's plan going forward.

Thanks,

Boo

Where to get an iPhone 5s for dev purposes?