Comment on This New Android Smartphone Is For Everyone Who Misses the Blackberry

• innermachine@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Could also try being frugal, there are plenty of smart phones for 200-300$ that will do everything your $1200 iPhone will do with a longer battery life. Most people I know spend more on a phone annually than I spend on my last car! And no u don’t need a new phone every year or two. Currently typing from my Moto G I got for 200$ new.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t buy a new phone more often than probably one every five or six, so I don’t really mind buying an expensive flagship.

    The problem tends to be though that people buy an expensive phone and then later have financial difficulties. And people criticise them for having an expensive phone as if they could have known that that would be an issue a year or so down the line.

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    • innermachine@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The other part of the equation here is not every body has 200$ to buy a cash phone, but these days you have to have a phone. So if ur poor what do you do? Spend 200$ you don’t have on a cheap phone or walk out of verizon for 0$ with a brand new iPhone that retails for 1400$ but only cost u an extra 20$ a month for the rest of your life? It’s the same reason a lot of poor people buy new Nissans (read about how they made money on subprime loans if ur interested) and it brings into perspective how expensive it is to be poor!

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  • TheFarOutMan@lemdro.id ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Legit sound advice, I use the cheaper android phones so I never spend more than £120 on one. Only issue I ever have is the lacking RAM, otherwise they’re great.

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    • vaionko@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I paid 70€ on my current phone, and it has 8GB of RAM, and even a headphone jack. Buying used is great

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      • TheFarOutMan@lemdro.id ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Damn, I need to start buying used then.

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