Got a new phone -- staying 4-5 years behind the technology curve saves money

[eddiehaskell]

bought my mom and i the iphone xr about 3 years ago. paid ~$120 for each phone through a prepaid carrier deal. today i got us the 11 for 100 each from another prepaid carrier because the old phones were around 80% battery health. now we good for about 2-3 years.

i pay around $15/month for the service on our phones.

old/cheap phone benefits -- put it in a case, toss it around or in a bag with no worries about damage. if it gets lost or stolen no huge deal. no need to worry about phone insurance, no contracts, can bounce around carriers depending on where the deal is. still does everything a phone needs to do and less money in a big companies pocket.

[8pieces]

I have an iphone 7 and it works fine. i never get it how people are so obsessed with getting the latest phone all the time

[2011change]

OP, you sound like a financially smart person. Thats good

[Godfrd824]

Times are tough. Sometimes you gotta be thrifty.

[eddiehaskell]

I have an iphone 7 and it works fine. i never get it how people are so obsessed with getting the latest phone all the time

yeah an older phone like that does all the big things a phone needs to do...talk/text/take a pic/look something up while out, etc. people can sometimes get caught up in the newest thing being so cool and convincing themselves they need it for all kinds of reasons. it's like looking for ways to get more absorbed into the technology matrix when actually we should be looking for ways to pull back (no more than 1-2 hours a day interacting with tech).

[eddiehaskell]

Times are tough. Sometimes you gotta be thrifty.

i'll always be thrifty...it's like a game seeing how my needs can be met for the best price.

[fuzzysoup]

I love my iPhone 8, its fits in my pocket and doesn't move around when working out and battery are only like $12 if you change it yourself

[ShipyardChad]

Thinking ill get a iphone 12 next. They run for 2-3 hunit

[iwant2beswole]

11 to 15 is a pretty big and noticeable jump


but if you really have minimal phone use it's not necessary

[eddiehaskell]

Thinking ill get a iphone 12 next. They run for 2-3 hunit

could've got one of those for $150...but the 11 does all i need. don't really care about 5g either.

[atgbrahsrs]

I would make the same purchase choices regardless of how much money I make

but when I just had my first job out of university, I would focus so much on value for money I ended up in that penny wise dollar stupid mindset

bought a supermarket pair of sneakers that literally look and feel like expensive or mid-range nikes, and then yeah the construction is on par but the sole corners are cut somewhere and it became smooth in 3 months and then on a wet surface I fell on my bum hard and learned my lesson

now just buy the best rated generic adidas or nike, pointless exercise to save 50$


was stupid af thinking about it because a few purchases per year saving like this was just a small iota of my salary


agree that the you do not need the latest tiktok integrated gay

[dmaaack]

iPhones last forever. Pop new battery in and they good to go.

[GetComfortable]

i still rock an iphone 6s

[atgbrahsrs]

iPhones last forever. Pop new battery in and they good to go.

can say the same about samsung budget and midrangers

[Legz422]

I have an iphone 7 and it works fine. i never get it how people are so obsessed with getting the latest phone all the time

Your battery doesn't die extremely fast? I had a 7 or 8 for like 5 years and just upgraded to a 13 in the fall.

[Anachron]

In on daily poorcel cope thread.

[Tanerian]

Still rolling with my Note 9, so like 6 years old?

Legit does everything I need a phone to do, and the battery is better than the newer Note/Galaxy Ultra series of phones. Battery still strong af. Not buying a new phone until this one dies.

[ye193x]

In on daily poorcel cope thread.

He's right what's the point of buying a new 2k phone every year ? As soon u buy the newest one and leave the store they have already released a new one a week later, the only difference between the older and newer one is they've moved the camera slightly and called it iPhone xyz or whatever is nowdays.

Dumb phucks lmao tim c0ck and his board are chitting themselves laughing all the way to the bank every year in tears.

[GatorBoy92]

Good luck getting laid once she sees that.




Some things are worth the premium.


Dedfknsrs.

[OliverHeldens]

My entire job is done on my phone. $1300 every 2-3 years is a very small price to pay for everything to be working perfect.

[FelixTheCat1919]

In on daily poorcel cope thread.

This. Miscers brag about being CEO $10k /days, then they talk about how they recently "upgraded" to a phone that's 5+ years old and was someone else's porn/fapping device in a previous life before refurbishment. Or hanging onto the same phone for 10+ years.

brb "lol at non-$10k /days, but I can't afford $1,000 - $1,500 once every 2 or 3 years to buy a new phone for myself, because muh savings and frugality".

[DeputyDong5]

I have the 13. Before that the XR. Before that the 6.

Lol @ wagies, drowning in debt on the car, renting, upgrading to the new iphone every year

[DeputyDong5]

My entire job is done on my phone. $1300 every 2-3 years is a very small price to pay for everything to be working perfect.

Shouldn't your company be paying for that?

[GetComfortable]

This. Miscers brag about being CEO $10k /days, then they talk about how they recently "upgraded" to a phone that's 5+ years old and was someone else's porn/fapping device in a previous life before refurbishment. Or hanging onto the same phone for 10+ years.

dont forget about crying how eggs went up 2$ a carton due to covid inflation or how they wont tip

LMAO bunch of frauds on this site

[GooBaaa]

Broke talk tbh

Verizon gives me free upgrades pretty much whenever a new iPhone comes out

$130 a month for unlimited everything with Canadian service plus Netflix and hbo and my service for my watch

[GetComfortable]

Broke talk tbh

Verizon gives me free upgrades pretty much whenever a new iPhone comes out

free upgrades
pretty much

you mean when you pay for them? LMAO

[Visel]

The 1, 2, even 3 year phone upgrades are usually not worth it. In fact, if you go on Phone Arena and compare specs, sometimes the "upgrade" can have hardware DOWNGRADES. A good example is how the S20 came with 12GB RAM, but the S21, S22, S23, S24, all come with 8GB RAM. And no the RAM isn't faster, it's the same LPDDR5.

However all it takes is one great new feature or technological breakthrough to make it worth it.

The most obvious example is when the Galaxy S20 or iPhone 12 came out as the first phones to break the edge and have 5G compatibility. Some viewed being an early adopter of a 5G device as an investment in itself, regardless of how recently they purchased their last (4G) phone.

For some people a newer BlueTooth version is sufficient enough to warrant purchase. For some people the S24's "Live Translate" feature is worth the purchase if they constantly interact with people from other languages for business or what have you.

Depends on you and your needs. I wouldn't shame someone for buying a new phone the day it comes out. But I would judge them if they'd done it every year for like 5 years.

[GooBaaa]

free upgrades
pretty much

you mean when you pay for them? LMAO

Why would you pay for them if they are upgrading them for free? They probably send the old phones to India to be wiped then sold on eBay to poor people like OP trying to save a few dollars

[Visel]

Why would you pay for them if they are upgrading them for free? They probably send the old phones to India to be wiped then sold on eBay to poor people like OP trying to save a few dollars

It's not actually free. Have you ever purchased a phone outright before? The telecom retailers ALWAYS try to talk you out of it.

Let's say you buy a $1k phone for $42/mo for 24 months. Your phone provider will lump that onto the bill.

A year goes by, and they say "want a 'free' upgrade to the next new $1k phone? No increase to your plan there it's free!" False, you're actually extending your device payment portion of your phone bill by another 12 months. The alternative could've been that you bought the phone for $1k cash, and then your phone bill no longer includes a device payment, solely the service, so it would be $42/mo cheaper, at which point there is zero incentive behind buying the new phone that only has a slightly better CPU and camera or something. There's no difference in actual price between "buying a phone for $1k" vs "buying a phone for $42/mo 24 months", with the exception that it's easier on the retailer's end to persuade you into saying "no change to your payment... get this new device... btw we're tacking on another 12-24 months of your device payment portion part of the monthly payment." It's all a tool to trick you into justifying a new phone every year since it "feels free", but really it's just keeping your total monthly bill higher and doing business with your phone retailer every year.

Overall: If you plan on keeping your phone for longer than 2 years, it doesn't matter which you choose (buying outright or monthly payments), except from the tactic of "but cmon OP, lets extend that device payment plan by another 12-24 months since it's "free", tempting you to buy a phone upgrade even sooner.

[GooBaaa]

It's not actually free. Have you ever purchased a phone outright before? The telecom retailers ALWAYS try to talk you out of it.

Let's say you buy a $1k phone for $42/mo for 24 months. Your phone provider will lump that onto the bill.

A year goes by, and they say "want a "free" upgrade to the next new $1k phone? No increase to your plan there it's free! False, you're actually extending your device payment portion of your phone bill by another 12 months. The alternative could've been that you bought the phone for $1k cash, and then your phone bill no longer includes a device payment, solely the service, so it would be $42/mo cheaper. There's no difference in actual price between "buying a phone for $1k" vs "buying a phone for $42/mo 24 months", with the exception that it's easier on the retailer's end to persuade you into saying "no change to your payment... get this new device... btw we're tacking on another 12-24 months of your device payment portion part of the monthly payment."

I don’t have a device payment so not sure what your talking about

You upgrade keep the phone for two years then upgrade you again and still don’t have a device payment the old trade negates that