My last 5 phones have been out of contract, and less than $400 with trade in and/or discounts. I always stick with the pixel lineup. Frankly I don't think I'll be spending that much on this next upgrade though. the latest and greatest just doesn't make that big of a difference in my daily usage nowadays, and paying a premium for the high end stuff doesn't really get you much more than the mid range stuff.
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Trade-in value, plus $400-500 USD. I generally change my phone once every 2-3 year, so I figure ~$150 per year amortization is fine.
I bought a Google pixel 4a a while back for 550 Australian dollars after shopping around and price matching. Helped my partner get a Motorola G54 for $250 after price matching and it seems to have all the features that I had on my old phone that I'm pretty happy with. If I have to replace my Pixel someday I'm kinda on the fence whether I should get a Fairphone or to just go for a Motorola like hers.
$1/day after discounts and rebates. Right now that is in the Pixel / Nord range.
I had a similar approach until recently: 100β¬/year +100β¬, mostly 300-400β¬ phones for about 4-5 years (so not that many). But my last phone was 500β¬ and i doubt I'll use it for 6 years, so let's see
I got a Galaxy S24+ Exynos for 750 USD this year with Galaxy Buds 2 Pro bundled in. It was one heck of a deal. I've been living it. Should last me long time.
Normally 400β¬, but because of the Fairphone, I spend a little extra (700β¬) because it is just such a great phone if you are even slightly technically inclined. That will last a whole lot longer than any of my previous phones.
I mean 15β¬ for an entire new usb-c port that you install yourself is just a steal.
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Anywhere from $300-$400. Can be extended to $450 should the phone be that good. Unfortunately, current phones are not that exciting or offer high enough built-in storage with/without sdcard support. So, I plan to keep using my phone until something really good comes along. Till then, I can wait a few years.
My current phone (realme narzo 60 pro) cost $340 and has 12GB of ram and 1TB of UFS 3.1 storage. No other phone offers that in sub $400 or even $500 price range. The company that created this phone did not do this again. The realme GT 6T and GT 6 both max out at 512gb storage variants. Meaning, an upgrade would be a downgrade in storage.
Out of curiosity, why do you need so much storage on mobile? Massive music library in FLAC or something?
I am totally content with 128GB. It's enough that I'll never run out of space for my usage. (Well, aside from photos, but those get backed up in full-resolution to Amazon Photos as part of my Prime subscription).
Granted, most of my media consumption is ebooks, which are tiny.
No, not FLAC music library. I have lots of games and apps which take around 248GB. Some streaming apps like crunchyroll easily take 33GB, genshin impact 27GB, Netflix 17GB, titan quest 5.9GB, wreakfest 5.9GB, Youtube Music 5.4GB, etc.
Other data around 288GB is media like movies, serial, TVs which I downloaded for offline viewing. ROMs for gaming take around 17.7GB, 21GB is downloads including some HDR videos, LLM models, etc.
The total occupied at this point is 640GB out of 1TB.
Used to be max 200β¬, then 300β¬ and my last phone was 220β¬. But prices keep rising and next will probably be 500. I never do trade-ins though and keep using the old phones afterwards.
200 up to about 450 is where I normally go. I always go for the mid-range devices though. Like I had a Moto G several times. I have the OnePlus Nord N200 right now. I've had the Pixel "A" series before. So I generally go for the mid-range devices in that 200 to 450 dollar category.
I bought a Oneplus One (300 β¬) and kept it for 5 years, then a Samsung S10e (475 β¬) and still have it now, so going to be 5 years soon too.
The one plus one was 180β¬ for the highest spec version, how come you paid such a premium?
I got the 64GB version direct from OnePlus through the invite system, it released for $349 / 299 β¬.
I checked my bank account and I definitely paid 180β¬ via PayPal for the white 64gb Version, not on launch but a few weeks later. I might have had a coupon, but it's weird because that would be like 50% off.
"No money down." I pay that shit off over time along with the monthly bill. I hate you still have to pay the taxes up front tho. That's stupid.
Rocking a 200$ OnePlus Nord CE 2 Lite and it's doing the job pretty well! Thinking of flashing PixelOS into it once I get bored with Oxygen OS.
I generally don't spend more than I have to so I stick with mid rangers. Only time that was a bad mistake I'd say is when I bought a pos nothing phone by far the worst android device I've ever owned.
I generally look at what the market is doing. I care a lot more about software availability and battery than performance these days, most manufacturers have little to offer me.
Generally, the only things of interest to me are the pixels (shootout Graphene), the fairphone, and projects like the Librem 5. IMO if you want an android and care about privacy or security, the choice is kind of obvious these days.
Around 800β¬ would be the absolute maximum I'd be willing to pay. I don't think there's anything you could do to a smartphone that would make it worth 1000β¬ or more in my eyes.
Like 4 or 5 years ago I bought a refurbished Pixel 2 XL for like $150 or $200 or something. Works great, I don't need to upgrade (although storage is a little small). The only issue is it hasn't had security updates since 2020 which is a little scary.
$300aud for my pixel 5 after my $100pixel1 battery was only lasting a few hours.
I don't mind paying ~1300β¬ for a new phone, if that phone meets my need. I know it's a little bit too much according to how much would other people spend, but if I can get more stuff done with that phone, I think it's money well spent.
Verizon and Google keep doing these wild trade in deals. They keep giving me $600+ to trade in last year's Pixel with 3 year "financing". So $22/mo and I always have the current Pixel. I know they're screwing me, but I can't figure out how π€·π»