Choosing a good cell phone (?!)

[Winemaker]

Am I the only one who read this sentence, read the equipment list in your sig, read that sentence again, and lol'd?

I would like to know what is snobbish in my signature, all components that can be found at a good price in various online markets.
I continue to maintain that the majority of iPhone owners, not all of them obviously, bought it because it is trendy and fashionable, and not for the technical capabilities it possesses, of which they know nothing.

 

[Soandso]

I still using an iPhone 7.

I'm hanging in there with an iPhone 6s as it has a built in headphone jack. Am stateside with a $25/mo. 4 G carrier plan including unlimited data plus a hot spot I use for wifi connecting to my tablet or either my LG phone with it's built in quad-dac and headphone jack. I don't take many pictures and save even few of those.

 

[davidc]

Yes, if you want a used phone the best place to buy it from is swappa.com
But if you are looking at the pixel, I would encourage you to get the latest generation as the AI improvements on it are extraordinary. They just came out with the pixel 10 which with incentives and promos and such you can get it all the way down to free. Go to pixel.com

 

[Petrushka]

Not an unreasonable amount of time, but possibly close to twice as long as the typical lifecycle for many. A sad situation, but as many people cycle through phones every two years, few manufacturers look to provide support, or a phone that still works as it should, much longer than this.

I have an iPhone 12, and my wife has an 11, both on the latest OS. They work for years after OS updates stop.