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I got an S22+ in 2022, I bought the flagship thinking I'd keep it for at least five years. As far as I can tell there is still next to no reason to upgrade.
Your only real reason to upgrade if the phone is still perfectly good is that you'll stop getting security updates in 5 months (at least that's how it's been scheduled by Samsung). A shame because any 2022 flagship is bound to still have solid performance for pretty much any use case I could think of (except maybe high-end games? Who runs those on a phone anyway?)
You'd possibly get an extra year or 2 likely next time with an iPhone (historically longest major version support + sometimes abnormally long security update support, the 2015 iPhone 6s still got security updates until May this year), but there's no guarantee and if you prefer Android, Samsung's up to 7 years of promised security updates now for the latest flagships, as is Pixel and if you're on a popular model unlockable phone, you can go way beyond that with custom ROMs. Samsung doesn't allow unlocking all of their phones, but if yours is unlockable, you may yet use it for several more years if you so desire. Phones are pretty damn expensive, even moreso now, custom ROMs are great to further increase device lifespan if you can use them.
I'll take a look into the custom ROM. Thanks for the info!
One of the big reasons for getting a new phone when I bought was the years of security updates.
My wife has an S22. Literally the only problem is the lack of storage. Losing the memory card slot was a mistake. My S10 is her old one. I stuck a 256GB SD card in it and now it has whatever that plus 128GB is. It’s the second most spacious phone I’ve used after my 512GB iPhone.
The move was to self-host storage. I moved my drive backups to a NAS and now it doesn't matter how much storage the phone has. It can send anything I want to conserve or fetch whatever I need to use. It is a phone, it's biggest strength is mobile connectivity, so it doesn't need to have all the storage on device. Plus I can upgrade the NAS as needed and use it for other stuff.
Memory hasn't been an issue for me (256 gb), but that is more of a personal use thing. I dont use the camera much, and don't keep video or audio books on my phone