Current Events > How often do you usually wait to buy a new phone?

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a few yrs or something?

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a few hours

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Every 2 years. I finance for 2 years and then get the newest Galaxy when mine is paid off.
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as long as I can. I have an iPhone 11 now, but before that I had an iPhone 6s

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5+ years
I still have an iPhone 6 plus that I got back in 2016. It's still working great and I intend to use it for a couple more years.


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2 years now that Im finally up to date on the best phone to make it worth the trade in credit.

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Until it breaks or apps stop supporting it.

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Every 4 years or so.

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Until it breaks.

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BTH_Phoenix posted...

Until it breaks.

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I keep my phones until they break.

BTH_Phoenix posted...

Until it breaks.

Until its unusable. Get my moneys worth out of it.

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Usually I replace phones when the battery has degraded over 3-5 years.

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Basically until it becomes too much of an inconvenience to constantly charge it. My current phone is approaching that mark it'll be 4 years old in about a week.

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BTH_Phoenix posted...

Until it breaks.

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I've never broken a phone or had one fail on me (legendary Apple build quality) so I've been going 4 years between upgrades.

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Current phone is at or near (or perhaps past) 4 years. Got it late in 2017.

LG G6. Held together with popsicle sticks and glue.

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Usually when it can hold its battery charge for less than 1 day. My current phone is getting there.

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My phone is currently 2 years and 1 month old. I plan to keep at least another 2 more years.

Like others, I keep it until it quits or no longer works optimally (battery) - 4-5 years. I used to get one every 2 years but not anymore.

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Typically about every 4 years or so. Ive had my current one for nearly 2 years. My previous phone was having a hard time keeping a charge for more than like 1-2 hours if it wasnt plugged in, so I was in a pretty good big need of a new one.

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Min of 2 years, no more than 4 or 5.

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4 or 5 years

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The only reason I got a new phone was because the calender of my previous phone wouldn't go any further and automatically reverted back to 10 years earlier

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I usually get a new phone when something happens to my current one

One phone I had, I dropped it and the screen cracked. The phone otherwise worked fine, but the crack on the screen really pissed me off so I bought a new one. Fuck it.

I've had this phone for 2 years. Phone works perfectly fine, only thing I don't like is it isn't a 5G phone. I feel like I should upgrade simply so that I have 5G access. But I feel like it doesn't matter right now, because 4G works perfectly fine with at&t.

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when the battery gets so bad that the phone starts dying at 30% charge, or if I destroy it accidentally. My last phone lasted a good few years before I dropped it and the screen got cracked hard, still actually worked pretty well though lol.

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smoke_break posted...

Until it breaks or apps stop supporting it.

This, went from a 6S to a 11 Pro.

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BTH_Phoenix posted...

Until it breaks.

Yep. I've only had 3 smartphones ever.

Nexus 6 - Screen got burn-in from those stupid icons at the bottom

Galaxy S8+ - USB port stopped working

Currently have a Pixel 4XL that's doing ok but a little huge in my pocket

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2 years. I find joy in using very new tech

I buy one when I need a new one.

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My work gives me a new one every 3 years

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2-3 years. Flagships are kind of designed with a two year lifecycle unfortunately.

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Until it breaks.
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Im still going strong on an s6

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I had an iPhone 3 and now I have a 7+. I will probably wait until mine stops getting WiFi/4g to re-up. Before my iPhone 3, I had a flip phone (that was probably 12+ years ago).

Edit- I might have had a 5 in between the 3 and seven. My current phone drains battery life like crazy, so it might be on its way out. Well have to see.

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Still on an S8. Been very lucky, never damaged it, and knock on wood, never broken a screen for any smartphone ive ever owned.

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Back when phones were making big stides every generation, I was an every year guy, but in the past 3-4 years we've hit what seems like the apex of this particular formfactor, and the upgrades between phones is smaller and smaller each year. So now i'm on a 3 year cycle.

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I'm still on my first smartphone. A galaxy s7. No plans to upgrade, it's been a solid phone.

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BTH_Phoenix posted...

Until it breaks.

Either every 2 or 3 years, or until my old one either breaks or craps on me.

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My OnePlus 7 pro is still running excellent after 2 years, so going to be going for as long as I can
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Until it breaks or becomes too outdated to be practical. Same with PCs, for that matter.

I don't remember so much before that, but I got a Galaxy S3 in 2012, kept it until I was gifted a Meizu M3 Note in IIRC 2016, which I replaced in 2019 (due to the charger port starting to crap out) with a Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 that I'm still using (though now on a custom ROM because there's no sign of an official Android 11 update).

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