Everyone should keep their current devices as long as possible (either the device breaks or can no longer run work related software) to reduce the upgrading culture. You can shoot 4k now, that's great! Keep the device even if the latest device supports 8k video. Same applies to other hardware/software features.

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Somewhat agree. Manufacturers releasing successive models at less than a year's interval now is ridiculous and you buying each new one - even more so, but on the other hand using the same phone for 5-6 years just because you can is also a bit drastic (even if you swap the battery midway through, by the time the second one's dead the phone will be obsolete). Maybe a bit more doable with computers, especially given that you can upgrade one component at a time. 2-3 years seems doable for a phone.

[–] spiderplant@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

I mean its not that crazy, I'm writing this on a moto Z2 play. It was released June 2017, not long till year 6 bit hope it goes longer. It's perfectly usable, runs most apps fine, can even run TFT.

Phones haven't changed that much recently, this model has a great screen, 4gb of ram(more than some laptops that are still being released!), and a decent chip. Only issue is the battery is sub 3000mah but I know of a few models from around the same time went up to 5000mah.

You do get better mileage running an OS like lineage and being degoogled since a lot of their tracking processes kill the battery and slows things down.