Why do you upgrade your phone?

[Tsutarja]

I'm curious. What are some of the reasons on why you upgrade your phone? Is it because you like the latest flagship from your preferred manufacturer, or is it something along the lines of your current one is broken beyond repair?

 

[Flowerchild]

I've only had 3 phones in my life and both upgrades were because it got basically unusable. My first phone (Moto G) got super slow within a few years and my previous phone (Oneplus 3) was COVERED in cracks because I dropped it like 8 times and also the camera stopped working so I was like okay iPhone time.

 

[Caite-chan]

I tend to get a new phone maybe every 3-5 years depending on what's going on. Mostly because my phone tends to slow down and I need something that works. I'm never the type that has to run out and get the newest and latest thing.

 

[moon]

I'm curious. What are some of the reasons on why you upgrade your phone? Is it because you like the latest flagship from your preferred manufacturer, or is it something along the lines of your current one is broken beyond repair?

i usually break my phones so much 😂😂 so i need to replace them.

 

[Incineroar]

I usually upgrade for a better camera and processor. While my old phones usually still work, it's nice to have a breath of fresh air. I do keep my old phones in case of an emergency though.

 

[#Not Important]

I've had 3 phones so far, a Samsung galaxy Young 2 (good that that didn't last too long), which was basically unbreakable. I managed to break it. Then I got a Samsung S7 edge. That got broke too. Now I have an OPPO A52, which I'm trying to keep longer than ususal (because it's a good phone).

 

[Palamon]

I usually only upgrade my phone when I absolutely have no other choice to. I've only upgraded thrice so far. And hopefully, I'll never have to again. We'll see. u_u

 

[colours]

i'm clumsy and drop my phones to the point where they have a cracked screen and instead of dealing with the cracked screen, i just get a new phone lol

... but i'm much more careful with my current phone. can't be assed to upgrade after this one, so i made sure to put a sturdy case on it!

 

[twocows]

i upgrade my phone when the old one is no longer usable. i'm currently using the nokia 2.2 which was about $100 no contract and has a removable battery, headphone jack, and android one (stock android with guaranteed two years of feature updates and three years of security updates). this ticks all the boxes i wanted. it's not waterproof, though! i learned that the hard way with my first one, that's why i buy cheap phones though lol. and the battery from the old one still worked! so now i have two batteries in case this one ever fails.

 

[Sonata]

I typically run my phone into the ground and then utilize my one free warranty replacement. It always starts with a case, but as time goes on that disappears and I end up dropping it. I currently have an S9+ which is covered on both sides in spiderwebs and has bits of glass falling off of the back every now and then. There's still about 6 months left on my payment plan for it though, so I've got a little bit before I have to replace it. Probably won't end up upgrading until something truly revolutionary happens. The only reason I had upgraded from the S7+ to S9+ was because of the "waterproofing" which was helpful at the time since I was working fast food and getting greasy smudges off of my screen was much easier with being able to simply run it under the faucet.

I'm also addicted to mobile games since I have a significant enough amount of free time at work to keep up on daily tasks in them... so sad to say that if there's one I got excited for and couldn't play due to having an outdated phone, I would likely make a jump just for that.

 

[starseed galaxy auticorn]

Honestly, the last time I upgraded mine was because I got my iPhone 6 as a hand me down from my mom. It had tons of problems, and it didn't function all that well either. So, I was able to upgrade it to the iPhone 8 because they said I was in need of he upgrade. I usually don't bother upgrading to the latest phones because there's no point. There's nothing wrong with my current phone. It's held up really nicely for me and endured a lot of drops and bumps. XD

 

[Sydian]

bc it doesn't work anymore lol........i literally just got rid of my iphone 5 this year. i'll go until it quits working on me. i never upgrade out of leisure or just to have the latest model.

 

[Fairy]

Girl, I'm waaaaay too poor to be upgrading to new models, lol. Never had the "latest and greatest" phone in my life.

I still have my Galaxy S4 (or something, I don't even remember tbh). I really, really try to avoid spending money on new tech in general. If I absolutely have to, I'll always go with the oldest, cheapest, refurbished, but still supported, model I can find. I think I've had a total of three phones in my lifetime. I will use phones until they are dust and put off getting a new one for a long as feasibly possible. Shit's expensive!

 

[Roni]

Because devs upgrade their websites/apps and thus make it heavier and heavier for my phone to handle til I'm basically forced to get a new gen one.

I honestly just might go full Hermit if the day actually comes that social apps get too heavy for me to use.

 

[Starlight]

I don't game on my phone and I don't use social media much, so I am not the sort of person to upgrade every year. My last phone was a hand-me-down from my partner, so it was old when I got it, and I still kept it for a few years. It had a new battery and screen along the way though :)

Even though I don't need the latest, there are certain things I require in a phone that usually only come in a flagship, so I tend to get one of those, even if it's an older one.

This year I actually broke tradition and bought myself a new phone! Brand new, but it was still a year old model 😂

My reasons for buying this particular model were: better camera because I'm unable to carry my actual camera right now, bigger screen for reading comics, 45w charging, stereo speakers, good aptX support and I just really wanted an S-Pen again for writing poetry after not having one for many years.

Things I require in all phones: waterproof, decent battery life, good cameras, good handling of otg devices, full range of sensors for night sky apps and an sd card slot.

 

[Figure]

I honestly couldn't care less and would probably still be rocking like an IPhone 6 if it wasn't for my girlfriend. Every other generation or so she likes to upgrade and then gives me her old one. I am rocking an IPhone X (I think?), the one with two camers because she wanted the one with three cameras.

 

[lilaë21]

I've had four phones in my entire life (five if I count my father's old feature phone that I used for a while when I was 11).

- the first one was a feature phone that lasted me three years. I changed it (it was 2011 and I was 14, for context) not because it was not working anymore but because I found a smartphone on sale that I could replace both that phone and my (at the time) very old iPod with a single device with lots of storage (32 GB - which I mostly filled with music -compared to the 4 GB of my iPod). Besides, I hated and still hate texting with feature phone dial pads so having a QWERTY keyboard - even if virtual - was a huge pro towards changing it.

- that smartphone lasted me actually little over two years as it started having some weird problems (the worst one was that if I got a text message during a call, it started playing the notification sound over and over even during the call and until I turned the phone off...) and it was already running an unsupported version of Symbian.

- my next phone lasted a little less than five years. Battery life was its main problem, and even while I could change it and keep using it, I found a really good offer for a new model which had a huge pro - a larger screen. My old phone had a 4-inch screen and as I found myself reading PDFs or articles on it while on trains, the prospect of upgrading to a much larger screen ultimately sold me the new phone.

- I'm still using that phone today, two and a half years later. I've already decided that I will likely not choose to change the battery to use it more as I want to shift to a more privacy-friendly alternative (a de-Googled Android ROM such as LineageOS or /e/), but not until I meet one out of three deadlines I have calculated - the earliest of which means that phone has to last at least until September 2021, which is when the amount I paid for it divided for the days I've used it will result in a cost of 0,70€/day. The other deadlines are May 2022 (matching the same cost/day of my previous phone) or April 2023 (matching the exact same number of days I've had my previous phone for).

 

[Joey Montag]

circa 2010 I went from a Motorola Razr to the iPhone because smart phone were new culture at the time, so that reason was a cultural shift I suppose.
everything after that was basically because my phone stopped charging/wouldn't turn on anymore. tbh I have no idea was my phone is now lmao iPhone 6, 7, 9?? all I know is I bought it in 2020 at an apple store

 

[Allen303]

I don't have a phone 😔😔😔
And my laptop is really really pottato😥😪😥😪😫😫😭😭😿

 

[Soaring Sid]

I usually only upgrade my phone when I absolutely have no other choice to. I've only upgraded thrice so far. And hopefully, I'll never have to again. We'll see. u_u

That's just like my father.
But imagine a world where you don't have to upgrade your phone :0


I've upgraded just once for..um, I didn't have any smartphone sonwas using an old Nokia. So my parents bought me one and it's been the same.