It's been like 10 years since I bought a new phone and I'm much better off that way. There's no appreciable difference between a $400 phone and a $1500 phone, they are both going to start shitting the bed in two years but one of them will leave me $1100 poorer. The expensive one might have a slightly better camera, but if I really want a nice picture of something then my cheap DSLR will blow it out of the water anyway.
I only buy used "flagship" phones after getting a cheaper Samsung model forever ago, it was trash.
The camera, processor, amount of RAM, let alone custom ROM support, is worse on a new cheap Android phone than a Galaxy S or Pixel from 2-3 years before.
The camera is always much worse on cheap phones, in my experience. A pixel 3 from 5 years ago has a comparable or better camera than a cheap Android phone today, OnePlus excluded. I have a camera but don't have it with me all the time and want to take decent pictures when I need to.
It's been like 10 years since I bought a new phone and I'm much better off that way. There's no appreciable difference between a $400 phone and a $1500 phone, they are both going to start shitting the bed in two years but one of them will leave me $1100 poorer. The expensive one might have a slightly better camera, but if I really want a nice picture of something then my cheap DSLR will blow it out of the water anyway.
I only buy used "flagship" phones after getting a cheaper Samsung model forever ago, it was trash.
The camera, processor, amount of RAM, let alone custom ROM support, is worse on a new cheap Android phone than a Galaxy S or Pixel from 2-3 years before.
The camera is always much worse on cheap phones, in my experience. A pixel 3 from 5 years ago has a comparable or better camera than a cheap Android phone today, OnePlus excluded. I have a camera but don't have it with me all the time and want to take decent pictures when I need to.