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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am still using my 5 year old phone, which is running just fine

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

4 years and running for me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The legendary POCO F1

[–] IronRain 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I said it before and I'll happily say it again. Removing hardware features while increasing prices will always cause stagnation down the road. When software features, camera bumps, and folding screens are all you have to offer, people will just keep their phones longer and use a $3 app to fill in the missing "feature" on One UI 6, Pixel's exclusive feature drops, or even Apple's Dynamic Island.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Or you know it could be cost of living going up so people have less disposable income.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Oh no people aren't buying their magical glass rectangles to suck themselves into social media (β•―Β°β–‘Β°οΌ‰β•―οΈ΅ ┻━┻)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like people have reached a point where the increased prices of phones has made them more price sensitive to replacing it for a newer model. Bet they'll raise the price again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I bought Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra for 1100 USD. Sure as hell will I use this for 5 years not just 1 or 2. Ain't gonna let myself getting robbed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I just replaced mine but only because my charger port was dying. If that had not happened i had planned to replace it at about this time next year. If it had made it the device would have been 3.5 years old. As is it only got 2.5 years which annoyed me a lot. It was still perfectly fine on software, but the hardware failed me. This phone doesn't, but i would like my next phone to have wireless charging to avoid a repeat. I may have just gotten unlucky though as i have never ever had a charge port die until that one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Got myself a fairphone 4 last year and I try to use it as long as possible.

[–] Charcoal8645 2 points 1 year ago

Same thing I did, but with a S22

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

pixel 7a running calyx os