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Allow me to counter your experience with my experience. I don't know about the Pixel, but my Samsung phones last yeeeeeeeeeears. Wife and I use Android phones,
by y-c-o-m-b 4y ago
Allow me to counter your experience with my experience. I don't know about the Pixel, but my Samsung phones last yeeeeeeeeeears. Wife and I use Android phones, kids use iPhone. The kids have been through way way way more iPhones. My Samsung Galaxy S7 was used from approximately 2016-2020 until I finally updated to the S10e which has been equally - if not more - reliable than the S7 before it. In fact I was honestly looking at this thread and wondering why people bother upgrading to these latest and greatest devices so soon when these older phones last so long.
BTW that Galaxy S7 still works. I only upgraded because all the updates to Google Maps, Gmail, and other newer versions of software were understandably too slow for the device.
- kyriakos 4y agoI go through an android phone every 3 years. All my old models work fine (minus the battery life being less). Bottomline it depends on the usage.
- kaba0 4y agoWell, presumably you as an adult take better care of your devices than children do? So I’m not sure it is fair to take anything away from it. As a more objective, non-anecdotal data point, second (and often third-, fourth-) hand market of apple devices is always blooming, not giving way to such a device churn as all the androids do (but again, it is not a fair comparison as most android is not high end out there)