Do you need it though? 3 years isn’t that long for a phone. 3 months ago I replaced my Samsung Galaxy S5 from 2014 for Fairphone 4, which I will keep to 2032+
Yup agreed completely. Back in the early 2010s, when we went from 1GHz single core CPUs to 1.2GHz dual core CPUs while doubling the RAM, things were a lot more interesting cause you could actually feel the speed improvements between generations.
These days even a budget phone is gonna be more than enough for browsing your social media of choice, texting, calling and doing the basics which is all I need my phone to do. I’m planning on keeping my Pixel 6 until it either can’t hold a charge for long enough or it gets to slow for my liking, whichever comes first.
While my wallet is glad I don’t feel the need to upgrade so often, I do miss actually getting excited about the next generation of phones and looking forward to my next upgrade so I could marvel at the generational improvements.
People using an S21 (for example) obviously get a bigger jump compared to coming from an S23. It’s similar to upgrading PCs. Upgrading to every CPU generation doesn’t get you huge jumps in performance every time, but upgrading from Ryzen 2000 to 7000 (3 generations) is like night and day.
Sure, but we’re pretty far from the jumps of 10 years ago for the same amount of time between upgrade, that’s what I’m saying. Even Android itself was a good excuse to want an upgrade to have a device that supported the new version, these days I couldn’t tell you what has changed from 13 to 14 because it’s all shit I don’t use (and I don’t know anyone that does).
You buy phones for other things than utility? About every 5-8 years until they break? I’m on my third phone since they came into existence, it can’t do much more than the second.
What I’m saying is that general performance has been pretty stagnant for years now, if you bought a flagship device 3 or 4 years ago then new devices aren’t much of an upgrade for everyday tasks.
Are there still people that really care about phone releases? It feels like we’re at a point where the tech doesn’t improve enough to even bother…
I’m still on the Samsung Galaxy S20+ (2020) so I’m excited for the latest phone.
Do you need it though? 3 years isn’t that long for a phone. 3 months ago I replaced my Samsung Galaxy S5 from 2014 for Fairphone 4, which I will keep to 2032+
It won’t get the latest Android OS update and it’s also starting to lag a bit
Yup agreed completely. Back in the early 2010s, when we went from 1GHz single core CPUs to 1.2GHz dual core CPUs while doubling the RAM, things were a lot more interesting cause you could actually feel the speed improvements between generations.
These days even a budget phone is gonna be more than enough for browsing your social media of choice, texting, calling and doing the basics which is all I need my phone to do. I’m planning on keeping my Pixel 6 until it either can’t hold a charge for long enough or it gets to slow for my liking, whichever comes first.
While my wallet is glad I don’t feel the need to upgrade so often, I do miss actually getting excited about the next generation of phones and looking forward to my next upgrade so I could marvel at the generational improvements.
It’s still exciting if you’re looking for a specific upgrade.
People using an S21 (for example) obviously get a bigger jump compared to coming from an S23. It’s similar to upgrading PCs. Upgrading to every CPU generation doesn’t get you huge jumps in performance every time, but upgrading from Ryzen 2000 to 7000 (3 generations) is like night and day.
Sure, but we’re pretty far from the jumps of 10 years ago for the same amount of time between upgrade, that’s what I’m saying. Even Android itself was a good excuse to want an upgrade to have a device that supported the new version, these days I couldn’t tell you what has changed from 13 to 14 because it’s all shit I don’t use (and I don’t know anyone that does).
You buy phones for other things than utility? About every 5-8 years until they break? I’m on my third phone since they came into existence, it can’t do much more than the second.
What I’m saying is that general performance has been pretty stagnant for years now, if you bought a flagship device 3 or 4 years ago then new devices aren’t much of an upgrade for everyday tasks.