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What's the point of buying new phones every years? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by Uluganda@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Other than your carrier give it for free or cheap, I don't really see the reason why should you buy new phone. I've been using Redmi Note 9 for past 3 years and recently got my had on Poco F5. I don't see the point of my 'upgrade'. I sold it and come back to my Note 9. Gaming? Most of them are p2w or microtransaction garbage or just gimped version of its PC/Console counterpart. I mean, $400 still get you PS4, TV and Switch if you don't mind buying used. At least here where I live. Storage? Dude, newer phone wont even let you have SD Card. Features? Well, all I see is newer phones take more features than it adds. Headphone jack, more ads, and repairability are to name a few. Battery? Just replace them. However, my Note 9 still get through day with one 80% charge in the dawn. Which takes 1 hour.

I am genuinely curious why newer phone always selling like hot cakes. Since there's virtually no difference between 4gb of RAM and 12gb of RAM, or 12mp camera and 100mp camera on phone.

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[โ€“] zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can do even better than five years with Fairphone (...Speaking as a Pixel user)

[โ€“] cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But will Fairphone be around in 5 years?

[โ€“] Ranessin@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It has been around for 10 years and 4 phones by now, and only gaining in popularity and market share. No reason to predict an early demise yet. The Fairphone 1 controversially only received 3 years of updates, but since then it's 5 years.

[โ€“] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fairphone is also guaranteed only 5 years. If not, then they are probably using a custom ROM that is not directly supported by Google. I'll keep my eye out for this company though, the repairability is great and I love the repairability of the phone.

[โ€“] zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The article I just linked says they're extending support to 7 years: Out to 2026 for their 2019 model, the Fairphone 3. The article also links to an older article talking about how the Fairphone 2 ended up with 7 years.

I'm in the US so the Fairphone was never really a consideration for me, but if it's available whenever I need my next phone I'll definitely look into it. It's pretty annoying to be using Google's own phone, and still only have access to 3 years of OS updates.

[โ€“] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Interesting. So 7 years for the Fairphone 3 but it seems on their website, for the Fairphone 4, it is only 5 years, they might extend it to 7 years like their previous phones though.

Edit: Apparently Fairphone 4 is coming to the U.S, but with /e/os instead of the fairphone os.

https://shop.fairphone.com/?ref=header

https://www.fairphone.com/en/open-source/

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/fairphone-is-coming-to-america/