For me it’s just battery life at this point. Once that starts degrading significantly, I upgrade. It’d be nice if they still allowed you to access the battery easily.
I think phones from 8 years ago were fine, but phones from the last 3-5 years are in my opinion basically fully developed.
Good batteries, good cameras that are no longer really getting better (we’ve looped back to the megapixel wars), basically desktop class chips that can run full 3d games or even AR with on the fly ML. They’re waterproof, the glass is durable (I dropped a Pixel Pro down the stairs onto ceramic tile yesterday and it’s perfectly fine), antennas are super fast, NFC works, they support strong encryption quickly… The screens are all super high def OLED with HDR and amazing colour quality which looks amazing and I’ve never seen one burn in.
Really the only new stuff to add is generative AI for like text completion, and that doesn’t even run reasonay on 99% of desktops.
Things are slowing down a bit. Isn’t this a good thing for the planet?
Even my phone from 8 years ago was fine. My current phone has a nicer camera and is faster, but all the other stuff is not that important.
For me it’s just battery life at this point. Once that starts degrading significantly, I upgrade. It’d be nice if they still allowed you to access the battery easily.
I think phones from 8 years ago were fine, but phones from the last 3-5 years are in my opinion basically fully developed.
Good batteries, good cameras that are no longer really getting better (we’ve looped back to the megapixel wars), basically desktop class chips that can run full 3d games or even AR with on the fly ML. They’re waterproof, the glass is durable (I dropped a Pixel Pro down the stairs onto ceramic tile yesterday and it’s perfectly fine), antennas are super fast, NFC works, they support strong encryption quickly… The screens are all super high def OLED with HDR and amazing colour quality which looks amazing and I’ve never seen one burn in.
Really the only new stuff to add is generative AI for like text completion, and that doesn’t even run reasonay on 99% of desktops.