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Vodafone Finds Brits Keep Mobile Phones for 4 Years Instead of 2 (www.ispreview.co.uk)
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[–] r00ty@kbin.life 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I generally upgrade every 4 years too these days, at least the last few times and for the next upgrade. Let's see if I can remember my whole phone list.

  • Motorola M301
  • Ericcson 628 or 688 I don't remember which (or whatever the modified name was on one2one back then)
  • Nokia 8100/8146 (you know, the ACTUAL matrix phone)
  • Gifted Nokia 3110 or 3210 (8100 broke down)
  • Nokia 6100/6126
  • Sony Ericson T68i
  • Sony Z1010 (my first phone with a camera, spoiler alert, it was terrible)
  • iPhone 3GS
  • Samsung Galaxy S2
  • Samsung Galaxy S4
  • Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+
  • Samsung Galaxy S20+ (current)

Wonder if I missed any that were that forgettable?

Generally an upgrade outside of 4 years was because there was a feature I particularly wanted or needed. On early phones this was quite often (think SMS support, WAP, EFR, GPRS). But then contracts were generally for 1 year so it didn't matter too much. Later phones it's been 3G/4G/5G/Wifi calling etc that generally drove upgrades.