Well sure, a 5 year old phone will lose most of these performance comparisons against modern phones, but will it lose badly enough for consumers to care?
Still using a 6.5 years old iPhone 7. Can’t fine a downside, still runs perfectly well. The only thing that needed a replacement is its battery. I hope it holds for another 4.5 years (with battery replacements).
Phones were already far more powerful than what most people needed back then so I’m not surprised that, performance wise, they still hold up.
I’m still using a 4 year old Xiaomi Mi Max 3…
I have a few old phones that still work great. Yes Google might pull their support on the phone because it has an old version of android but you can always use fdroid or side load apps.
I have a couple of old phones here. A 10 year old phone that is used as a bedside alarm and flashlight when needed. The other is a 6 year old phone that is used as a practice device of loading custom ROMs and jail breaking purposes.
Great video Juan. Your last point about lazy reviewers is why you’re the only phone reviewer (he does way more than review phones people) in my subscriptions. And as far as android content goes, it’s only Android Faithful & In Depth Tech Reviews. It’s frustrating seeing reviewers increasingly go the pay to play route and often not even disclosing the fact their “review” is really just a commercial.
I was hoping to see more recommendations in the comments but I’m sure that’ll come in time.
According to my earliest photo taken, I got my current phone about 5,5 years ago. It still runs perfectly fine and I have yet to encounter performance problems on any app I have used. Haven’t even used up more than 50% of its memory. The battery still holds the entire day. Why would I ever get another phone until it breaks? Granted, I don’t play any games besides the occasional handheld emulation on long train rides and I’m on an outdated android version, that’s not supported anymore I believe.
I wish my old phones would work that long. Performance usually isn’t the problem. It’s hardware degradation. Battery dying. Ports wearing out. Boot loops and crashing.
The problem is vendor support. As soon as a device stop receiving OS and baseband security patches, it becomes potentially insecure.
My oneplus 7 Pro is almost 5 years old and it’s still snappy and works just fine with what I want to do on it.
I was using my samsung S7 until the power button fell off a year and a half ago. Yes I would still be using it today if that didn’t happen. I was still using it for like 6 months after too.
Consumers will buy what they’re told.
I’m using an LG K9 right now. Works ok, but I’d prefer a smaller screen
I’m using a v60 and really don’t want to give it up. I’ll probably try a battery swap before buying any of the new crap on the market.
Laughs in LG v10…
Maybe it IS time for a new phone!
I made the mistake of buying an international V20 model at the beginning of 2018, which didn’t have VoLTE capability. When they started shutting down 3g networks here it could no longer make phone calls. :( If it weren’t for that I’d still be rocking it
