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Cake day: July 30th, 2023

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  • It’s like the old adage about buying $30 boots versus $300 boots.

    I typically go for high-end phones and then keep them for as long as possible. I used my Note 4 from release until around 2020 when I bought a used V20 for a short time until buying an S21 Ultra which I’m still using today. You can’t get the longevity out of budget phones with worse hardware than a $40 Amazon tablet or $50 Raspberry Pi unfortunately. From what I’ve spent on my S21, it’s the equivalent of buying a $200 phone each year and that only goes down the longer I keep it.

    That aside, modern phones seem to get fewer and fewer useful features with each release so I don’t really see the appeal of ‘upgrading’ until I literally have no choice.