Poll: Did you upgrade your phone this year?

[bill_rae]

I skipped my normal yearly phone upgrade for this year and was curious if anyone else did too? I have an iphone X and didnt see any benefit to upgrading even though i’m on that AT&T plan that lets you upgrade every year.

So the poll is: (regardless of iphone or android) Did you upgrade your phone this year?

• Yes - it was my annual upgrade

• Yes - my phone was a year older or more

• No - didnt see a reason to

• No - I dont partake in the yearly upgrade ritual

• I lost/broke my phone and had to get a new one

[Macgyver15]

Number four for me. If it still works the way it should why waste the money on a new one for slightly better specs.

[TechMan]

Yes. I upgraded to the iPhone XR (don’t judge). I plan to upgrade every two years, because imo it’s the best way.

[tiagomota]

I don’t usually upgrade every year, since I buy the phone on contract so I have to wait a for the contract to be over or pay the phone’s remaining price before upgrading. That said, unless there are some big changes coming this year - which I doubt - or that I have a big income increase by year end - which I hope - I won’t be upgrading this year when my contract ends. I’m on an iPhone 8.

Plus, a little tip for @bill_rae and others on creating polls: https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-create-polls/77548

[Ice1]

4 for me. I don’t usually upgrade every year.
@tiagomota that’s a very good tip @bill_rae why don’t you update your content to look like a real poll survey so easy for everyone?

[Chiquinho]

Not using phone, no upgrade!

[Ice1]

Not using phone, no upgrade!

This is better

[kumar.sachin]

#4 for me too.
I use a factory unlocked iPhone on an MVNO network (prepaid) for till the phone dies.
Used iPhone 4S (32 GB) on Straight talk from 2012-2017 and now have iPhone SE (128 GB) on xfinity mobile (since 2017).
Paid $45 per month on ST and now pay $12/month for 2 lines (total). Great deal

[Ice1]

Wow that’s real cheap! how good is the ST service? they must be using one of the big 3 towers?

[kumar.sachin]

Yes ST uses all the available big 3 towers. They can provide you with a sim as per your needs. I used Verizon sim since other service signals suck big time at my home. xfinitymobile also uses Verizon towers so its the best.

[Ice1]

But honestly, how did you get it down to $12/month for 2 lines

[kumar.sachin]

xfinitymobile for their customers who has xfinity internet service through comcast provides free talk and text (unlimited) and you can pay the data as you go. there are 2 tiers, $12 per gig or $45 unlimited.
And this data when paid per gig can be shared upto 5 lines per account.
So for 2 lines that I have we share the data which comes to $12 per month (each extra gig cost another $12). xfinity also provides free wifi where ever xfinity wifi or cable wifi is available (and its available at a lot of places). I rarely exceed 0.7 or 0.8 GB data per month.

[k_pug2003]

I was alway tied into a 2 year contract so I always ended up going for the S versions of iPhones.

Stopped at the 6s (had 7 for a while but downgraded for more storage) for a while and got Xs last year.

So number 4 for me

[tcbjr23]

2- After a bit over 2 years.

[Shenoy]

You need to add one more option 6. No - still time on contract for phone (iPhone) upgrade, I will have to wait out for some more time to upgrade, hopefully Apple has some thing good lined up then

[Ice1]

@kumar.sachin thanks for sharing. Too bad we don’t have this type of plans in Canada.

[Fuu_bar]

I got a decent deal on a Galaxy S9+ during the Black Friday sales, so it was hard to not upgrade from my S7. Only ran me $300 after everything was said and done and I am beyond happy that I did it when I had the chance to.

[kumar.sachin]

Thats awesome. Upgrading when a great deal presents itself is good. I also upgraded when there was a deal to get unlocked iPhone SE (128 GB) for $99 and thats exactly what I did to upgrade from iPhone 4S

[MSTR]

nope didnt upgrade.

[tugar32]

3.- For me, iPhone X, Did not make sense to upgrade the phone.