• innermachine@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Could also try being frugal, there are plenty of smart phones for 200-300$ that will do everything your $1200 iPhone will do with a longer battery life. Most people I know spend more on a phone annually than I spend on my last car! And no u don’t need a new phone every year or two. Currently typing from my Moto G I got for 200$ new.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      6 hours ago

      I don’t buy a new phone more often than probably one every five or six, so I don’t really mind buying an expensive flagship.

      The problem tends to be though that people buy an expensive phone and then later have financial difficulties. And people criticise them for having an expensive phone as if they could have known that that would be an issue a year or so down the line.

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      7 hours ago

      Legit sound advice, I use the cheaper android phones so I never spend more than £120 on one. Only issue I ever have is the lacking RAM, otherwise they’re great.

      • vaionko@sopuli.xyz
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        2 minutes ago

        I paid 70€ on my current phone, and it has 8GB of RAM, and even a headphone jack. Buying used is great