Comment on Vodafone Finds Brits Keep Mobile Phones for 4 Years Instead of 2

• aeternum@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  yup. they might upgrade the camera, but i mean, who cares? iOS gets updates a LOT longer than android, and so what is the point of upgrading?

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  • li10@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, marginal camera improvements are kinda meh to me. Has there really been anything that significant since Face ID?

    5G is the only thing that springs to mind for me, but I’ve honestly never felt that 4G held me back on a phone considering it works perfectly for playing videos…

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    • WagesOf@artemis.camp ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Android has gotten high refresh and variable refresh which is great for battery life. Other than that just raw speed, which is usually just throttled down for better battery life and monstrous huge screens.

      As far as I can see on the apple side they haven't seen anything but incremental, and sometimes increments in the wrong direction, changes in the last 6 years.

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  • nezbyte@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Emergency satellite SOS was a massive selling point for upgrading to the iPhone 14 to a lot of people. To your point though, my 2015 iPad is just now being dropped from future updates.

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    • Pat@kbin.run ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Meanwhile in Canada it's being recommended to disable emergency SOS on both iPhones and Androids because of how many false 911 calls they end up placing, causing first responders to waste time on non-emergencies.

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      • narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        These are two separate features.

        I doubt many people actually have a use case for satellite SOS though.

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      • thejoker8814@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Very interesting, do you have any source or references that springs to your mind? I have emergency SOS enabled, but it never happened to me that it has been falsely triggered. And I can’t imagine many scenarios were it would be.

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  • smolyeet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Recently , 5G in the 12, 144hz in the 13 pro , satellite and crash detection in the 14 , this year usc-c. Upgrading that often is an enthusiast thing really (or marketing).

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• giant_smeeg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Similar with android. I had a pixel 5 and loved it, the pixel 6 pro came out and I was dragged in (higher res screen, 120hz etc etc). Then the pixel 7 pro came out and I bought that too (mainly for signal improvements).

  Looking back, my pixel 5 did/does everything these do. I’ve decided my next upgrades will be whenever the below happens:

  • Phone broken
  • No more updates
  • Feature I need, and I mean need (it would be hard for a phone to come out to do this)

  I don’t need some random AI features/camera improvments. 99% of my phone use is podcasts, browsing the internet and any phone from the last 5 years will do that nicely still.

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  • InverseParallax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They need to give us back the headphone jack, that’s a feature worth getting a new phone for, but then again we can just use an old phone instead.

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    • giant_smeeg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Again I was sucked in here… I bought WF1000XM3, then XM4. Since having a kid, we’ve had to watch spending a bit more and i’ve really started to embrace repairability and longevity. Recently picked up a Framework laptop that I plan on keeping for a long time.

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      • InverseParallax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Have a framework, probably the 1st gen.

        It had a big bug where it would go to sleep and never wake up, but I finally found a firmware upgrade and it’s been perfect since, maybe a bit on the power hungry side while asleep.

        You might want to consider a used thinkpad, they last literally forever and you can get a decent one for $500 or so.

        Just my thought, the fw is great, tempted to upgrade the mobo at some point, or get the 16, but it’s not cheap, it’s more about being able to upgrade and the flexible i/o, which is actually cool.

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    • WagesOf@artemis.camp ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Or you could put a usbc dongle on all of your headphone cables for $1 each and finally move out of the 80s tech bubble.

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      • giant_smeeg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Not sure they’re $1 each if you need a dac.

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      • fubbernuckin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You say it’s from the 80s like it… matters at all whatsoever. It works, and it works well. It doesn’t stop me from adding an extra useless bit of cable on the end of them either, if that’s what i really wanted to do. Not like you have the choice.

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• waz@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Reading this on iPhone X

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• 6xpipe_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have an iPhone 8 and see no reason to update in the near future.

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