In 2016, having the remarkable experience of being really happy with a refurbished 2011 Apple iMac, at under half the price of a new one, I am looking into the purchase of an apple factory refurbished 5S iphone. 600 dollars cheaper than a new iphone. In CAIRNS, over 25 years, i have never actually needed a mobile phone at all, but Im thinking it may be a useful thing in Melbourne. I think we should all take up technology with sufficient wisdom to know, as is true, that mostly the new technologies simply dont deliver anything useful for about at least 5 to 10 years between models. This is usually how long things usually take, unless you enjoy disappointment as a way of life. Personal human development obviously takes decades longer than that...and hasn't changed its speed in at least a thousand years, at each essential generic individuated step. Unfortunately, there are no specials or bargains with that. As time goes by, we are all refurbished by these years, by ourselves, to some small extent, as individuals, but still yet mostly as our designers see fit to release or re-release us onto the market.