Has phone upgrading peaked?

Flashing it to the One M8 was the one way to make the phone half useful - Doubled the battery life too. It was great. Integration with InTune made administering a synch as well.
 
I think that once you get out of the habit of getting a new phone every year you soon realise that there really is little point. If dropping £1000 was of absolutely no consequence to me then I would consider the X but it not. I would rather put that money towards something else like a holiday.

I have just bought a new iPhone 7+ 256gb for £550 which should last me another 3 years like my 6+ did. The only reason I am upgrading from my 6+ is that its getting a little slow and I want 3d touch and a device that is future proof for a few years.

Everyone spends their money on different things so I don't know why people get so passionate about telling others that their priorities are wrong if they spend crazy money on the latest handset.
 
Phone development peaked a while ago now, updates across the board have become incremental and predictable of late. I tend to buy one every other year now rather than every year.

The big breakthrough will be battery life at some stage.
 
I've upgraded every year since the... 4S I think, but I'm not going to this year. Having a 128GB 7+ I've either got to up or down in storage for the same/more money, the 8+ doesn't interest me in the slightest and it feels like the X is different enough that it counts as 'first-gen' and I typically avoid buying those products and wait for kinks to get ironed out.
 
Minor incremental battery updates are just evolutionary and not particularly a reason to upgrade any more than the slight increase in processing power etc.

If someone designs a phone with a one week battery life* or one that recharges itself through heat/motion/sweat that needs relatively minimal recharging then that would push a lot of people to upgrade.

Not needing the charger for a weekend away, or that business trip would be a big benefit to many people. Probably not going to happen for a while though.

IMO the last step change was the release of fingerprint reading and it's use for secure apps on phones (ie payment and banking). It's more specifically TouchID/Apples iteration as they made it work and integrated it well. Everything since have just been minor changes. FaceID included, which is at a base level a fudge to get the same end usability in a device they couldn't get touchID to work with properly.

*hello 1990s feature phone!:D
 
Tauren said:
Lacking in pretty much every department. It couldn't even get notifications right !

Agreed it was light weight... but it was lacking features big time.
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It was going through the same development cycle as iOS (and Android did). Remember when you couldn't copy/paste on iOS for example?

It was as fast and smooth as iOS (far better than Android at the time) but lacked the apps unfortunately.

Android users wouldn't have liked it as you couldn't customize it.
 
I’m still using my trusty 5S. Personally, I have no reason to upgrade at this stage and if the current one died I’d probably replace it with an SE. For me there are better things to drop £800-£1000 on!
 
Amp34 said:
It was going through the same development cycle as iOS (and Android did). Remember when you couldn't copy/paste on iOS for example?

It was as fast and smooth as iOS (far better than Android at the time) but lacked the apps unfortunately.

Android users wouldn't have liked it as you couldn't customize it.
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Copy paste on ios is still bloody awful with regards text selection boxes on ipads.
 
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