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urbanriot

An old phone will feel slow.

An old phone may feel slow to some people depending on what they’re doing but honestly a best-bang-for-the-buck phone shouldn’t feel slow until 5 or more years later. My wife has my ‘old’ Galaxy S22 and it runs great for her, I don’t see her upgrading it for years. I bought an S25 Ultra and honestly I expect I’ll have it for at least 7 years if it doesn’t have a hardware issue before then.

ugly95

urbanriot An old phone may feel slow to some people depending on what they’re doing but honestly a best-bang-for-the-buck phone shouldn’t feel slow until 5 or more years later.

Yes, I think we’re getting closer to that point. My current phone is about 5 years old, and it feels fine. It was a bang-for-the-buck phone.

My older phone (probably about 5 years) was similarly a bang-for-the-buck phone. It is noticeably slow and struggles with a few things if I use it now. And I think it was more of an upgrade over my first phone than my current phone is over my previous phone.

AlphaPhoenix

urbanriot Yeah, I have a 512 GB Pixel 6 Pro, and my phone is still going strong. I’m only noticing a little slowdown, but not really much. Honestly I could probably still hold on to this phone for another year or two and it would still be working great and kicking ass.

Many years ago I used to be one of those people that would upgrade to the newest and best phone that came out each year, but honestly that was in the earlier days of cell phones when the differences from year to year were much more significant and more noticeable. But now, the phones have gotten to the point where the changes/upgrades aren’t that huge, and have started to feel more like incremental updates, than really meaningful and noticeable upgrades; hence why I don’t feel the need to jump to the latest and greatest every year anymore. (Plus that’s a lot of money to be constantly putting out needlessly.)

I will however say I’m strongly considering getting the Pixel 10 Pro Fold (or whatever that version will be called if they come out with one) later this year. But I have also had my Pixel 6 Pro for years now, and I use my phone heavily, so I’ve been getting years of heavy use out of it so far. And like I said, honestly it could probably still continue kicking ass for another 2 years.

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