Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand

Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My main reason to get a new phone the last 20 years have been “oh shit, phone’s broken, I need a phone”

  But I understand people who buy from shit companies with shit support and 5 days of updates. They didn’t take updates into account and suddenly they find themselves vulnerable…

  But flagship phones? GTFO! There’s an order to what stuff should cost ie. a home > a car > a months rent/mortgage > a months groceries > a phone

  When phones jumped groceries I shook my head, and now where flagship phones are in the rent/beater car territory… Wtf?!? How are people getting this kind of spending money?

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• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because they have better camera sensors and optics by far, and I take a lot of photos.
  A few gens was being generous

  Why would what people think of you factor into this at all? Who gives a fuck what phone people have?

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• BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Or, alternatively, my phone needs replaced and I buy a flagship because they have much better cameras, I take a lot of photos and don’t want to carry a second device. I also intend to keep it until it’s unusable. Sent from my 5 year old flagship absolutely nobody thinks is a fancy phone and I doubt ever did.

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