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
iPhone 8 - purchased it when it first come out back in Sep, 2018. I currently have a £7 mobile monthly plan in the phone. I won't be changing until it no longer supports an updated OS. This should give me 2 years to save from now to get the next gen. As long as it survivies that long. Over this time I have had to replace the battery myself once.

Before this I had an iPhone 6S which come out in Sep 2015, so had that 2 years on contract.
 
SixTwoSix said:
Pixel 4, out of contract next month (2 years) and can't see any reason to upgrade, so will drop from about £40/month down to a sim deal with Voxi for a tenner. Frankly, had my Pixel 2 not broken 2 years back, i'd likely still be using it, I loved that phone.
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LOL - this aged well, just got a Pixel 6 contract with 250GB data that works out cheaper over 2 years than staying on my current Pixel4 with £10 PAYG.
 
My P30 Pro is still working fine. My guess is that Huawei will look to maintain their customer base in the western world by not nerfing this phone as quickly as other manufacturers have been known to.

Now on a £12 a month for 100GB contract - so pretty happy with the lack of expenditure. :p

In reality, I don't think phones have moved on much since this phone was released - certainly not enough to justify buying a new one.
 
I'm still using my OnePlus 5T. Thinking of going for an S22 during sales. My 5T is sluggish after a factory reset, the alert slider decides that sometimes my phone will be on loud, sometimes it'll be silent, and the camera takes over 5 minutes to save video...
 
Well, a year on from starting this thread and my Huawei P20 lite is booked in for some major surgery.

It's 5 years old now, and just ordered the parts to do:

- New battery
- New glass rear cover
- New charging port
- Camera lens cover


All the above less than £30 in parts. The battery isn't too bad but worth doing, it's the charging port that is really the issue, you have to get it in at just the right angle for it to fast charge, also the rear glass cover is smashed.

I have done replacement screens and batteries on phones before with no failure rate so far, so fingers crossed, I figure for less than £30 it'll be worth a go as it'll give this phone a nice refresh and should give me further years yet, bit if it goes wrong I won't be too upset and it'll be new phone time, probably a Google pixel 6/6a.
 
OnePlus 7 Pro. Accubattery says the battery is at 75% health.
3,001mAh Vs the original 4,000mAh

I might look at just getting a new battery put in it if that can be done at a fraction of the cost of a new phone I'll keep it.

I'm amazed there isn't a law saying batteries have to be user replaceable. They don't want us having to buy new chargers all the time but happy for us to buy new phones purely because the battery degrades.
I long for the days of my Galaxy S3 I went through 4 batteries with that.
 
robj20 said:
OnePlus 7 Pro. Accubattery says the battery is at 75% health.
3,001mAh Vs the original 4,000mAh

I might look at just getting a new battery put in it if that can be done at a fraction of the cost of a new phone I'll keep it.

I'm amazed there isn't a law saying batteries have to be user replaceable. They don't want us having to buy new chargers all the time but happy for us to buy new phones purely because the battery degrades.
I long for the days of my Galaxy S3 I went through 4 batteries with that.
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They are generally not that hard to do, and most of the time when you buy the battery it comes with all the little tools.

You don't need a heatgun either for the glue, a hairdryer will work perfectly fine, in fact I prefer using a hairdryer over a heatgun as you can literally start melting stuff with the heatgun if you are not careful.

The most involved job I did was a replacement screen on a Nexus 5x, basically dismantling most of the phone, usually... batteries are not to bad.
 
BUDFORCE said:
They are generally not that hard to do, and most of the time when you buy the battery it comes with all the little tools.

You don't need a heatgun either for the glue, a hairdryer will work perfectly fine, in fact I prefer using a hairdryer over a heatgun as you can literally start melting stuff with the heatgun if you are not careful.

The most involved job I did was a replacement screen on a Nexus 5x, basically dismantling most of the phone, usually... batteries are not to bad.
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I'd do it at work, got a heatgun you can set the temperature on.
I'll have a look and see what is involved, any good sites with guides?
 
My S22 Ultra is a few months old and I havea bit of buyer's remorse. As a phone it's great, camera is great, but battery is absolutely shocking. It's worse than the OnePlus 5T I replace that had 75% battery health and needs charging twice a day if I use the phone. I get about 6hrs screen on time with Discord, WhatsApp and YouTube if I'm lucky.

I shouldn't have to turn all the features off and use battery saver just to use my phone for a few hours in a day.
 
MatteRB26 said:
My S22 Ultra is a few months old and I havea bit of buyer's remorse. As a phone it's great, camera is great, but battery is absolutely shocking. It's worse than the OnePlus 5T I replace that had 75% battery health and needs charging twice a day if I use the phone. I get about 6hrs screen on time with Discord, WhatsApp and YouTube if I'm lucky.

I shouldn't have to turn all the features off and use battery saver just to use my phone for a few hours in a day.
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6hrs screen in time isn't bad.

Depends on screen brightness and data signal and load.
 
2 years and 3 months now.

S21 ultra 16GB model

Still overkill for most games and tasks I use it for. But native resolution kills fps of games so dropping it to lowest resolution and it hits 60fps on anything I play.
 
Still really loving the oppo find pro X2, not sure of the gorilla glass used but I use it naked apart from the supplied silicone back case and it's still immaculate, my Huawei mate 20 pro was wrecked in the same time.
What would make it perfect, well maybe better battery life bit a day and a half is easy, wireless charging but the 65 watt charging mostly makes up for it, I just use usbc dust plugs to keep the port healthy plus no cheap cables used
Edit bought as new old stock £300 iirc
 
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Pawnless Endgame said:
The longest I had a phone was the Nokia 402 (re-badged Nokia 5110 from Orange). Had it for 4 years, 2000 to 2004. I kept it for that long because I wasn't interested in a contract and just ran it on PAYG sim.

The shortest I had a phone was the Samsung A70, for 10 months. It was good in most respects but the camera was a let down for indoor shots.

Current phone is the S20 Ultra which is 2 years old. I will keep it for another year, which will make it my 2nd longest running phone by then.
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Returning to this thread from a year ago, and I did keep my word about the S20 Ultra. I kept it for another year to make it 3 years, then returned it to Samsung (trade-in) when I recently bought an S23 Ultra. I intend to keep this for 3 years too.

Handset contracts have been a mug's game for at least 5 years now, so buy the handsets outright or use PayPal 0% pay-in-three.
 
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