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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€“] dditty@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Another piece to this is that smartphone innovations have slowed down significantly. I used my Samsung S8+ from launch 2017 until 2022 and couple kept it going longer but it wasn't getting security updates anymore and it's performance for Android Auto had intermittent issues, so I sold it to my friend (who's still using it) and upgraded. But as far as new features on new phones, by upgrading I got a faster display, faster SoC, and more RAM, which are nice to have but not game changers imo, and I lost a headphone jack, micro SD card expansion, and downgraded the resolution of my display (S21). I'm planning on holding onto this phone as long as possible and maybe I'll upgrade to a foldable if they iron out the kinks and come down in price.

[โ€“] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Foldable

Iron out the kinks

I don't know if this was intentional, but if it was not, you're a goddamn comedic genius.

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

So since it was intentional I'm just a dude?

[โ€“] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

A very funny dude.