Six years ago, we asked you “how often do you change your phone?”. The most common answer back then was once every three years, with once every two years coming in a close second. So, if the statistics hold up, most of you reading this have changed your phone two or three times since 2020.
But back then AI was just a curiosity. No one could have predicted the effect it would have on RAM and storage prices in just a few years. Yet here we are in a time when the prices of phones go up instead of down after they launch.
Okay, if we look past the doom-and-gloom state of the memory market, we’ll see some positive changes too. Phones with 6 or 7 years of OS updates are quite common now, while they were quite rare back then. Such a level of support was nigh impossible for anything without an Apple logo on the back.
Chipset performance, battery capacity and image sensor capabilities keep improving every year – these are normally incentives to swap your old phone for a new one.
