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What's the point of buying new phones every years? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Other than your carrier give it for free or cheap, I don't really see the reason why should you buy new phone. I've been using Redmi Note 9 for past 3 years and recently got my had on Poco F5. I don't see the point of my 'upgrade'. I sold it and come back to my Note 9. Gaming? Most of them are p2w or microtransaction garbage or just gimped version of its PC/Console counterpart. I mean, $400 still get you PS4, TV and Switch if you don't mind buying used. At least here where I live. Storage? Dude, newer phone wont even let you have SD Card. Features? Well, all I see is newer phones take more features than it adds. Headphone jack, more ads, and repairability are to name a few. Battery? Just replace them. However, my Note 9 still get through day with one 80% charge in the dawn. Which takes 1 hour.

I am genuinely curious why newer phone always selling like hot cakes. Since there's virtually no difference between 4gb of RAM and 12gb of RAM, or 12mp camera and 100mp camera on phone.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not charging my old phone to 100%, rather to 85% or 90% has helped with battery longevity immensely. After almost 5 years in use, accubattery still shows 80% battery health, and even if that's not accurate, it still lasts quite a while. The SD625 that phone had was very sluggish though, so in the end I still replaced it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I used to do that, but it was a chore to keep monitoring my battery life. I wish there were a "charge phone to 80% and stop" option.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My samsung has the feature built in, but on that old phone I rooted and installed Advanced Charge Controller. (Not feasible for most people i know)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't know why Google hasn't put this feature directly into Android. It's honestly one of the biggest pushes away from Pixel devices for me and it's absolutely silly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There are apps you can install to manage it for you on android, automatically cutting off charging when a given percentage is reached.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure this is root only. Normal apps don't have access to the charge controller and I've never seen an app that claims to do this without root.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

...huh, i wish i knew that earlier. I'm gonna search for it now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Samsung phones let you restrict the battery percentage to 85 percent. I think Apple does the same now.