A new survey reveals users are waiting longer to upgrade. Over 49% of readers now wait three years for a new smartphone.

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    2 days ago

    I upgrade every 4 years or so, and that’s really only because it’s also when battery life usually declines.

    These days the only improvement seems to be memory, storage and camera. Somehow I feel some of those will stagnate.

    But the new Samsung s28, it’s totally a bigger number than what you have now.

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      I’m really surprised that 256 GB is still the maximum many today’s phones offer. My phone from 2018 has that amount of storage. I know there are a few that offer 512 but after 8 years I would expect the baseline to be higher and terabyte area to be the norm in the higher end phones.

      Compare that to 2010 vs 2018.

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        512GB variant is going to be rare. There was a time in 2023 when you could get a midrange phone with 1TB of storage.

        Now, all they talk about are downgrades. Greed has been affecting us all this time.

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          I understand that with Pixels and iPhones, as they’re made by the same companies that sell cloud space. Is there a Samsung cloud?

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            12 hours ago

            Samsung did make 1tb phone models. Not sure if they still do. When I got my s24, 1tb was an option.