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Am I the only one not caring about new phones anymore?

Who upgrades every year?
How about several times a year?!
Yup, definitely my weakness.
Getting ready to import an Oppo Find N6 in Stellar Titanium!
At least while the prices are still low. Yeah a $2k phone. But it can be worse and cost as much as a decked to the gills Macbook Pro M5 Max. At least being an hour from the Christiana Apple Store (no sales tax) and military discount gives me 16% off.
That would be nuts. Kind of like GPU and DDR5 prices.
 
I got my first phone when I was 35, it was a 4S.. and it was already 2 years old lol. Back in the days of the 3 year contracts..

Anywhoo.. I have never owned a current gen phone until this one, they are usually a couple of years old already by the time I buy one new lol.

I will say it is pretty nice, I could probably get 2-3 days out of a charge if I didn't use it at night to play music. Low power mode ftw lol..
 
freeagentt said:
I got my first phone when I was 35, it was a 4S.. and it was already 2 years old lol. Back in the days of the 3 year contracts..

Anywhoo.. I have never owned a current gen phone until this one, they are usually a couple of years old already by the time I buy one new lol.

I will say it is pretty nice, I could probably get 2-3 days out of a charge if I didn't use it at night to play music. Low power mode ftw lol..
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My first smart phone was an Android that I put custom ROMs on after it couldn't get software updates anymore. I ran that thing into the ground until it wouldn't turn on anymore. My first iPhone was the 4S that I jailbroke as I missed doing that on Android. Those were good memories. And yes low power mode on these new phones with massive batteries is pretty crazy for battery life.
 
Shoganai said:
My first smart phone was an Android that I put custom ROMs on after it couldn't get software updates anymore. I ran that thing into the ground until it wouldn't turn on anymore. My first iPhone was the 4S that I jailbroke as I missed doing that on Android. Those were good memories. And yes low power mode on these new phones with massive batteries is pretty crazy for battery life.
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It's fascinating that phones like the OnePlus 15 can last for a couple of days of heavy use in normal mode... in low power mode, the battery life reaches "your lifeline during an extended power outage" levels.
 
i buy old phones when i need to upgrade. im using s21 now. im usually a few years behind. trying to get rid of samsung and go oneplus or something else. i hate samsung
 
greygoose said:
i buy old phones when i need to upgrade. im using s21 now. im usually a few years behind. trying to get rid of samsung and go oneplus or something else. i hate samsung
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I wouldn't go OnePlus, I'm afraid. The OP13 was great, and the OP15 still has some worthy features (namely that exceptional battery). But it sounds like the company is bowing out of the US market, and you don't want to be left with a phone that has only minimal support.

I'd pick a Google Pixel 9a if available, or 10a if you don't mind going new. I've used the 9a and it honestly feels like a flagship outside of a handful of areas (mainly thicker screen bezels and no telephoto lens). Just go with at least 256GB of storage, as 128GB is already barebones.
 
My last two have been oneplus they have each lasted many years and I've loved them BUT if I had to buy again today I'd be looking carefully to see if they are continuing in the US. I don't think oneplus is looking too healthy at the moment but I hope to be wrong.

Almost any mid phone has enough CPU and RAM for me. The features I have to have are dual sim and wifi calling support that actually works and it needs to be fully unlocked and work on affordable carriers like Red Pocket.

Everything else is secondary.
 
I have a 1TB S26 Ultra now, from a 512GB S23 Ultra.

Most of it was that I just wanted more space. I like hoarding huge amounts of media on my phone in case I need some entertainment in some weird situation, and I play mobile games. Some of which can get fairly big. Performance wise, there's basically no point. There's not really any noticeable difference.

Now obviously in theory you can get a phone with an SD card slot, but most of those aren't sold through my carrier, and 0% APR financing just makes the math work out much better for me. Also you can't offload storage for apps to a MicroSD. You can, but only a small part of it. That's what makes one of my tablets kind of worthless despite having a 512GB card in it. I think 1TB should be all I could ever need in a device, so I plan to baby this one. The usual Otterbox treatment and then screen guard and then probably will pick up a camera guard soon. Thankfully the batteries only got easier to replace on Galaxy line, so this one should be moderately simple if the JerryRig video is anything to go by. I don't suspect to ever need another one after this. There would just really be no point.
 
freeagentt said:
If you can make it 4 or 5 generations with your phone intact, you are doing alright. By then you would have had a new battery installed, or the one you would be using at that point would be ultra shitty.
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Yea. I just replaced a s21 ultra almost entirely because of the battery life degradation. I really liked that phone though. I hope I can keep this 26u running nearly as long as I did the 21
 
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