Poll: How old is your smartphone?

How old is your smartphone?

  • Under one year

    Votes: 113 22.5%

  • One to two years

    Votes: 90 17.9%

  • Two to three years

    Votes: 112 22.3%

  • Three to four years

    Votes: 86 17.1%

  • Four to five years

    Votes: 53 10.5%

  • Five to six years

    Votes: 24 4.8%

  • Six to seven years

    Votes: 9 1.8%

  • Seven to eight years

    Votes: 6 1.2%

  • Older than eight years

    Votes: 10 2.0%
  • Total voters
    503
Samsung Galaxy S8, it does everything I need, the battery still lasts a full day for my usage but I'm thinking about replacing it, beacause the screen is cracked in the corner and it is probably not waterproof anymore.

I need it to be somewhat waterproof as I use on the bike as GPS.
 
5-6 years with iPhone XR. Only just starting to show its age to be honest. Hoping to get at least a year or two more from it. A better low light camera would be good.

My iPhone 6 I had until 2018 for a long time was still good, even replaced the battery but it was software and app support that caused me to leave it. It still works now as a backup and I prefer the form factor over the XR.
 
My bargain price Pixel 6 is still fine - screen has a tiny chip at the edge, and there are a bunch of micro scratches on the rest of the screen; but these aren't visible during use. Hopefully this'll do for a good few more years
 
Over 2 year old Poco F3 here. I saw that its not going to get any more OS updates after this year. Probably a good time to shop around for a newer phone. Then again I don't really care for the newest fancy models, maybe I'll just hang on to it..?
 
S22 Ultra so just over 2 years? It's the longest I've gone without upgrading a phone but absolutely nothing really catches my interest atm. I think my next phone will be a folding phone but when they've got it spot on and then when the price drops to something sensible, so not any time soon for me.
 
Bought my Pixel 4a 3 years and 4 months ago.
..replacing it very soon though, probably with a pixel 7

I actually don't need anything 'better' than the 4a but the battery is a bit tired now and I fancy a new reasonably priced phone.
 
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8 year old Sony xz2. still happy with it but i could probably do with a 5g phone now.
 
My Iphone 8+ is still going strong, had a new battery approx 2 years ago when apple were offering a replacement for I think £25.00.
 
Still using my late 2018 vintage iPhone 7 and will continue to do so until it dies.

Herself was recently upgraded to a refurbished iPhone 12 as her 7 was down to 70% battery and not lasting a day. The improvement in camera performance was understandably impressive.
 
Galaxy s22 plus. About 18 months old. Really fed up with it. Battery won't even get to 7pm. Bluetooth drops out when in the car.
 
My iPhone SE is about three and a half years old and I'll keep it until it stops getting security updates or it packs up. Nice thing about Apple is they support their phones much longer than other companies.
 
Surprised to see under one year is out in front. Even though I voted for it because I have a 15 Pro Max. Before that I had a 11 Pro max and was largely happy with it for all that time. It started to feel only a tiny bit slow compared to my m1 iPad Pro just before I sold it. I expect to keep this one for 3-4 years again.
 
mattpj said:
Surprised to see under one year is out in front. Even though I voted for it because I have a 15 Pro Max. Before that I had a 11 Pro max and was largely happy with it for all that time. It started to feel only a tiny bit slow compared to my m1 iPad Pro just before I sold it. I expect to keep this one for 3-4 years again.
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If you look.. the first 4 option's are roughly equal...I'm guessing as after 4 years the batteries are usually pretty degraded and people fancy a change anyway.
I answered three to four years but I bought a new phone a couple of day's ago so if I voted again I'd vote under 1 year...

So looking at the figures as a whole, it suggests the majority People keep them 3 to 4 years, but how they vote depends where they currently are in that time cycle.
For example the number's drop right off at 4 years or more.
 
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mattyfez said:
If you look.. the first 4 option's are roughly equal...I'm guessing as after 4 years the batteries are usually pretty degraded and people fancy a change anyway.
I answered three to four years but I bought a new phone a couple of day's ago so if I voted again I'd vote under 1 year...

So looking at the figures as a whole, it suggests the majority People keep them 3 to 4 years, but how they vote depends where they currently are in that time.
For example the number's drop right off at 4 years or more.
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That's true, the spread is very thin indeed.
 
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