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How old is your mobile phone?

  • I don't have one (4%, 1 vote)
  • 1 - 2 years (33%, 8 votes)
  • 2 - 3 years (33%, 8 votes)
  • 4 - 5 years (20%, 5 votes)
  • Older! Comment below. (8%, 2 votes)
24 voters. Poll end: in 1 day

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I'm still rocking a 2020 era iPhone 12 mini. Runs iOS 26 just fine.

www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/how-device-hoarding-by-americans-is-costing-economy.html


Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy

Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
Kevin Williams (CNBC)
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Common Sparrow
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Bought my original cell phone - (NOT a smart phone) - for $10 in 2007. Tracfone with minutes purchased as needed. When 2g stopped working, they sent me a new 3g dumbphone free. When 3g stopped working (Jan 2022), they sent a 4g dumbphone free. Both times, they tried to talk me into paying to "upgrade" to a smartphone instead, but I said nope, just the free replacement for my old phone is fine. So if you don't count the forced replacements, I'm using the same $10 phone I bought in 2007.

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Ben Pfaff
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I do remember back many years ago when I got an extender for 3G (probably not the right term--a device that has a small radius 3G signal and plugged into your home Internet) I had to buy a new phone because my own phone was a dumb 2G one. I had asked the vendor about that but they said, "ha no one still has a 2G only phone."
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Common Sparrow
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Yeah, there was nothing wrong with my original 2g phone, except the powers that be deciding to kill 2g, same with the 3g replacement. Just one day, 'oh today your phone is going to stop working.' I'm just glad Tracfone offered free replacement, as long as you didn't want smartphone. I only use the phone for calls and texts anyway. I have a computer for internet, don't need it on the phone as well.
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Anne
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while this phone is only about 2 years old, I typically keep them 5 or more years… I don’t feel the need to constantly upgrade to the newest ones.
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Jean-Francois Mezei
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I have 2018 iPhone XS. Until this year , the last affordable iPhone with telephoto. This year I could have bought the new iPhone but since my XS still works fine (had battery changed à while back) why waste money ?
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Mike Weston
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Used to upgrade every two years but switched to three years. Currently have a Pixel 9 Pro, which replaced a Pixel 6 a little over a year ago (was happy they decided to make Pros that are too big).

Curious about whoever is running Graphene on a Pixel 6, since I still have that and might like to experiment...

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