Whether you use a camera, a phone or a card to pay for your transactions, £1800 is still a lot of money to pay for a phone even though you can see a bigger selfie of yourself! 
There's a segment of society that has to have the latest and greatest. For me there has to be some added value in upgrading and personally I can't see much difference between one version and the next one six months later.
One problem these days is the lack of support for older ( i.e more than six months) devices. Not that they have any additional features but they lack the security updates that newer devices have.
One problem these days is the lack of support for older ( i.e more than six months) devices. Not that they have any additional features but they lack the security updates that newer devices have.
Apple support software and rapid security updates for far longer than six months. Whilst Apple doesn't give a firm period the recent stats show IOS devices are getting 5-6 years of software updates, with stand alone security updates some going to 8 years, but the software would not be updated in parallel. Thats one reason why our family are all Apple, plus the devices are reliable too.
One problem with Android is that the software is on the phone but the different makers add to it for their own offering and when Google issue a software or security update the makers of the phones can be very dilatory in issuing the overall updates, This isnt a problem on Google Pixel phones as only Google manages to total software installation and Google will do timely updates.
My current Samsung A53 phone just over a year old gets updates and OH's Samsung S10 a couple of years old still gets updates.
Software is such a buzz word! After 10 years the Galaxy note was succeeded by the I phone 12. It talks to the I pad and also now for £2.99 a month a mammoth Cloud storage for thousands of photos etc.
The world is my oyster googling things instantly. Years back when researching things it meant a trip to the reference library. Not now. Something I will not be without. We even use tethering when away watching TV on the I pad linked to the I phone!
The world is my oyster googling things instantly. Years back when researching things it meant a trip to the reference library. Not now. Something I will not be without. We even use tethering when away watching TV on the I pad linked to the I phone!
When I was at University back in 2000 doing my BA in Business studies I found it quite interesting researching articles using the reference library. Also probably a great place for the younger set meeting people. Now they probably go to the reference library to text one another although they are sitting at the same table!
I have been spending some time at the Swindon and Wiltshire History Center doing some research in WW2 US forces in the area. It's like a pensioners version of when I was in uni in the late 1970s, plus in winter it could become our "warm place", whilst we research Ancestry for free. Well not for free, rather to optimise our Council Tax payments.When I was at University back in 2000 doing my BA in Business studies I found it quite interesting researching articles using the reference library. Also probably a great place for the younger set meeting people. Now they probably go to the reference library to text one another although they are sitting at the same table!
If it does all you need and serves your purpose, then thats great. But a new, up to date phone, will also have a much improved camera, or cameras. 3 in my case. And 5G which is a significant improvement. Plus improved screens, and waterproof (for when I go diving),😛.
Mine cost £1200, but a camera with similar capabilities would be at least £800,. Plus, I usually have good internet access while we are away. I could have got one cheaper which would serve my purposes, but I looked for some logevity.
John
Is the quality/speed of the internet connection down to the phone - or the local transmitter mast?
5G is being rolled out. Not sure of the current coverage. Nor the time frame.
If, the phone has 5G circuitry. And the mast emits 5G. Then you can get much faster speeds.
The improvements are very substantial. I found this on a search.
3G can reach network speeds of 7.2 mbps, 4G can reach network speeds of 150 mbps and 5G will eventually reach speeds in excess of 1gbps (with a theoretical maximum of 20gbps!
John
We struggle and are very lucky if we can get 2G. 3G, 4G and 5G are just pipe dreams and we are only about 6 miles from a city centre. Quite a large area around us has similar issues.
The need for speed. Selling something that a lot of people don't need but wont have much choice eventually.
While 5g promises a faster connection - if that's something you need - currently it doesn't seem to offer a large improvement unless your standing under the mast. Of course mileage varies as they say.
There's also concern at the moment that 5g signals don't go very far and not through walls very well.
Just on the question of speed. Until we had FTTP in our area I survived very well on a 6Mbps link. Trouble was it was unreliable, especially when it rained and the wires got soggy. When I signed up for FTTP, I started with a 50Mbps package even though I could have had 900Mbps - for more money obviously.
Recently BT upgraded me for no extra cost to 150Mbps. Is my life any better? I still can't type or read any faster: I'm not more attractive to women: I haven't won the lottery: and I still can't reverse my caravan onto the pitch.
Pays your money etc...
Same here, our 36mps broadband allows us to do everything that we need in parallel with our grandson working from here with zoom/teams meetings ongoing. I’d settle fir a good 4 g phone signal. Ah we can but dream.
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