I bought a new phone after having the old one for 3 years and as a treat to myself. It was an S22 Ultra. I regret buying it as the improvements are very minor compared to my old phone, and definitely not worth the massive hike in cost.

The camera is better but tbh, I barely notice it as its mostly a few photos for memories. I'm not printing them on canvas or anything so no point really having such high quality photos. Will definitely hold onto this one for as long as i can

I generally upgrade every 4 years too these days, at least the last few times and for the next upgrade. Let's see if I can remember my whole phone list.

• Motorola M301
• Ericcson 628 or 688 I don't remember which (or whatever the modified name was on one2one back then)
• Nokia 8100/8146 (you know, the ACTUAL matrix phone)
• Gifted Nokia 3110 or 3210 (8100 broke down)
• Nokia 6100/6126
• Sony Ericson T68i
• Sony Z1010 (my first phone with a camera, spoiler alert, it was terrible)
• iPhone 3GS
• Samsung Galaxy S2
• Samsung Galaxy S4
• Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+
• Samsung Galaxy S20+ (current)

Wonder if I missed any that were that forgettable?

Generally an upgrade outside of 4 years was because there was a feature I particularly wanted or needed. On early phones this was quite often (think SMS support, WAP, EFR, GPRS). But then contracts were generally for 1 year so it didn't matter too much. Later phones it's been 3G/4G/5G/Wifi calling etc that generally drove upgrades.

Those damn Brits, how dare they?! Buy more, more often!

ive only upgraded from my 2014 shit phone in 2021, and i plan to do the same with this one for as long as i can

You'll have to prise my 4a 5G out of my cold dead hands...

Meanwhile, here I am with a Galaxy S8 from 2017, doing just fine. Only bad thing is some stuff burned into the screen from overuse of some apps in the past coughs reddit coughs.

i used to buy a new one every 2 years or so,but after switching to pixel 6 and graphene os, I think I will replace it once it's no longer supported.

The 2 years life span had a ridiculous affect on the 2nd market that, now will never be the same.

I bought a second hand pixel 6a a couple weeks ago, my previous phone was the OnePlus 3, lasted me 5 years and at the time of purchase it was already a two years old second hand, bought them for basically the same price, 200€.

my XR is still going strong. unless the quality starts decreasing dramatically, I see no reason to upgrade just yet

4 years? How cute.