I've been looking to up grade my phone for a while now, I had an iPhone 4 and the battery was starting to run down very quickly and there were some apps I wanted to add to the phone but could not because of the software version that was on it. I was watching the pricing on the iPhone 6 & 7 but as you know there aren't a lot of good deals very often on Apple products. Then I saw a deal at Best Buy, the price of the iPhone 7 was the same as Verizon's and a little less then at Apple BUT it came with a $200 Best Buy gift card so I made the move. Boy am I happy I did, this is a GREAT phone. The bigger screen, on the standard not the Plus, makes everything you do on the phone better, the camera takes fantastic pictures, it seems to navigate the web better and faster plus it is lighter and thinner then my old phone. I got the 256 GB model because I wanted a lot of storage so I could add all my music, over 6000 sings. I really did not need that large of capacity as with my music and apps I sill have over 200 GB left. I bought the LIFEPROOF case with part of the gift card and it is the perfect protective case for this phone. If this phone lasts as long as my last one without any issues I will be 1000% satisfied and very happy.