How often do you get a new phone?

[Lamb]

How often do you get a new phone?

 

[tango]

Usually when the old one stops working. It's far from rare for me to keep a phone for 4-5 years.

 

[overcast]

My current one worked for around 1 year exactly and got damaged in the April this year. I wanted it to stretch upto new year eve. But yeah no chance and had to buy new phone recently. I didn't spend much but hoping that new phone I can get later in 2021 and hopefully it's apple this time.

 

[NewCreation435]

My current phone is about a year or two old but I have the same phone number for it. It is common for me to go several years with the same phone.

 

[Lucian Hodoboc]

hopefully it's apple this time.

iPhones get boring after some time. The customization options are limited, unless you jailbreak the device, which is something I'm not willing to do.

 

[tango]

I just realised my current phone is 21 months old. When I bought it the carrier very kindly allowed me to take 24 months interest free credit to pay for it, so I figured I'd use their capital instead of mine. They add 1/24 of the cost of the phone to my bill every month for two years, then that part of the bill goes away. I have three payments left.

The previous phone was the only one I replaced when it was still working perfectly, because I wanted to move to a new carrier and they didn't support my old phone. I think it was four phones ago I had one I grew to hate. One day I literally threw it against the wall in frustration with it and was quite disappointed when I picked it up and found it still worked. Although I said earlier I tend to replace phones when they stop working, if I get annoyed enough with a phone to do something like that with it the chances are it's getting replaced before too long.

 

[Alexander]

Usually when the old one stops working or becomes out-dated. Sometimes I'll purchase a new phone instead of repairing a broken screen, for example. It works out better value for money this way.

 

[Forgiven1]

Like many others, when the phone is not working. My previous phone was buggy from the beginning and was replaced twice, but still had some issues. After about 20 months, I replaced it last month. It is nice that Apple is now giving trade in credit. We used the credit for mine to purchase a new one for my husband which was about 6 or so years old. Updated his because Apple is no longer going to be supporting that one in the next year.