To be fair the vast majority of people don’t do that and just buy a new phone after a few years when theirs is becoming too old, has issues or lacks useful features
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Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
If you’re upgrading your device every single time a new device comes along, you’re just chasing clout and status. They rarely, if ever, have significant performance upgrades that make sense in upgrading when your current device is perfectly fine.
nyoooom@lemmy.world 1 year ago
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Most people upgrade when their battery is shot.
Furbag@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Planned Obsolescence / E-Waste Entropy seems to have been the main reason I upgraded to a new phone for like the last three phones I’ve owned. Eventually the phone just devours all the processing power and makes it feel bad to use, or the battery stops charging or depletes in hours even while idle.
Goo_bubbs@lemmings.world 1 year ago
That’s why I miss the days when you could just take the old battery out and put a new one in.
nyoooom@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hopefully EU legislation should bring that back in the coming years, I believe they’re working on such law at the moment
danielfgom@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This. The sealed phone is the #1 reason why people are getting new phones and contributing to the eco waste.
It should have never been allowed to happen. I promise you there is a way to make a phone with a removable back waterproof. They just don’t make it because they want you to replace the phone every two years.
They also haven’t rushed to make longer lasting batteries, say 4 years, for the same reason.
Pxtl@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
You don’t even need a hardware change to make batteries last long, capping charging at 80% and slowing the fast-charging will do that, both of which can be done in OS software. They just need a “battery protection mode” option for people who keep their phones plugged in a lot.
ArthurParkerhouse@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I just buy refurbished or “New-Old-Stock” 2-year-old flagship phones off ebay for $100 or so bucks every other year.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
In fact I think smart phones peaked 3 or 4 years ago and we’re going downhill now. The manufacturers remove features that people like in favor of objectively worse ones (lots of people loved having the fingerprint reader on the back, now it’s either gone entirely or under the screen for some stupid reason?, then of course headphone jacks are going extinct).
When is the last time a smart phone had a major improvement over it’s predecessor? And I mean like, “This one didn’t have a camera, this one does.” Especially since they’re converging on the same 5.7" black rectangle.
uberkalden@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I like the finger print reader under the screen
Lemonparty@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Phones also aren’t special anymore. Like the days where phones were flashy and people needed the best/newest phones are gone. Everyone knows everyone has a phone, nobody cares what phone it is. It reminds me of like 2004-2008 when laptops were a big deal and then everyone had one and it became a tool and people stopped caring what you had.