Battery replacement is $50-100, don’t replace the whole phone for battery performance.
Comment on Survey reveals most people are holding onto their phones for a long time, and it makes sense
snooggums@piefed.world 4 days ago
Three years is a long time?
I usually have mine for at least five years, and only replace them when the battery won’t hold a charge and there is some kind of massive discount.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 days ago
snooggums@piefed.world 4 days ago
While good advice, the replacements have been between zero and $100 but I wouldn’t have bothered switching for free if the battery wasn’t going dead.
nova@lemmy.wtf 4 days ago
Yeah, my last phone’s battery was starting to go and I was able to get a last gen flagship for a riddiculous £400 with a £200 cashback from Samusng just for buying it and I got £75 for my old phone in trade-in so it ended up being not that much more expensive than changing the battery. I’d had the last one for almost 5 years before trading it in.
ragas@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
My last phone was 8 years old and was still doing well.
Really after 8 years the new phones were finally significantly better for the same price.
RamRabbit@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I usually keep mine for as long as it is getting security updates (plus a few months). This currently means 5-7 years.
And quite frankly, I would like to keep it longer. New phones just aren’t that much better anymore.