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Now smartphones are mature products we’re into the annual “this is an incremental upgrade over last year. I’m so mad replacing my 2 thousand quid perfectly functional phone with one that’s almost the same for another 2 thousand quid” cycle.

My brother in Christ; have you considered just … not?

I’m upgrading this year. My phone is 3 years old and the camera stuff is worth it for me. My step daughter is getting my old one, which she is thrilled with.

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Jae

The reason I went back to iPhones is that I’m not bothered about latest & greatest hardware, but I *am* bothered about losing OS updates, and it annoyed me how little commitment Android manufacturers have to updating their phones “long” term (though I get the economics of it: their margins are so much lower than Apple’s). I’ve now had my iPhone 11 for 3.5 years, the longest I’ve *ever* owned a phone – and since it’s due to get iOS 18 I’ll probably wait till the iPhone 16 price drops at the end of next year before updating
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Rachel Greenham

@christineburns i was thinking of getting a new iphone this year, as it would be replacing an iphone 11 (five years old). I still might, but unless i decide i'm going to really try to make use of that camera... it's just a nice-to-have, not compelling.

possibly thinking of a watch 10, as that would be upgrading from... no watch at all. but then i remember i've never even liked wearing watches. you forget that while the keynote's playing… 🙄

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MarjorieR

are you actually going to spend £2000 on a new phone?
I'm a bit chary of upgrading my 2 year old £400 Android phone as camera wise the newer versions have gone from 3 to 2 lenses and probably added even more AI trickery to the imaging.
They have also added a more powerful processor which simply means the battery would be dead more quickly: this one is fast enough for my needs and currently runs for up to 5 days. And it has both phone socket and SD drawer.
And phones have now become phablets - they no longer fit it anyone's pockets or handbags so people end up hanging them round their necks.
As it is my previous, now 7 year old, phone, which I keep in a drawer, does still work but the OS no longer gets updates and it wont 'see' 5G towers.
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marlies

@christineburns it’s incremental but to me that’s a good thing. Phones are good now, we’re making small improvements (like over the past year or four they’ve gradually gotten way more shatter resistant), they last long. You upgrade every 3-5 years and you get the sum of all the incremental changes. Much better than the days of FOMO when you skipped a year.
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Mx Autumn

i've previously upgraded because the battery became too weak to hold a charge; although getting five years daily usage out of a somewhat fragile device is pretty decent in my books.

I did concider upgrading before hardware failure forced my hand in order to obtain a better camera until I remembered I have a compac camera that's still better than phone cameras which I have since bought a new battery for and use instead.

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