Anyone using a cheap Samsung A50 like me?
Me. Mine is black version 128/4GB model.
woah i cant justify the upgrade from just 1 generation but if you want the upgrades .. go for it
I don't even know how many gens pass when I upgrade. I had Note 3 Neo and upgraded it in 2019. At that point there already was Note 10 available (but not Lite version, that came later), so I guess I managed to keep my phone for 7 generations. But at some point Samsung skipped some gens, so it's probably 5 gens in total. I can't recall Note 5 or Note 6. That was 300 Euro investment and over 5 years it became 60 EUR/year, which is great. I managed to hit perfectly into not too cheap, so that it is so ass to use, that you won't survive long with it and not so expensive that it will never pay off. I got Galaxy A50 in 2019 and I already have used it for 2 years. I could have went with Galaxy A40, but I wasn't sure if it will truly be a long lasting device or not (overall slightly lower specs and only 3000 mAh battery, which is fine today, but probably won't fare well years later), so I picked a safer option. I think that I could expect a very realistic 4 more years out of A50 as unlike ever before, years later phones at same prices didn't really get better and same A5x class got way more expensive (even then upgrade is just okay, not really significant). And unlike ever before, I have latest Android version. It seems that 6 years of total usage time is doable and I may survive longer as innovation has grinded to halt. Not only that, but also factors that make phone obsolete also become almost dead or insignificant. In 2012, unless you got flagship, you would have already compromised experience with device. Like small battery, no updates, barely enough storage for few apps, poor cameras, general sluggishness of devices. In 2012, you bought crap and you were happy that it's just this crap, but not even more crap. Today, crap phones almost don't exist, unless you really go way cheaper than you should. Due to many factors, buying a flagship today is barely worth it anymore as mid range phones truly became a flagships of yesteryear and flagships today just fail to provide real additional value over mid range phone.
Only cell phone company here is Telia that I got access to but it comes with a contract of like £34 or something a month and then you can "upgrade" your phone but at the moment I am currently on no contract just going monthly basics and I pay £10,15 for 10 hours talk, 30GB 5G data (8GB for EU when I travel) with free sms/mms in europe.
So far I am not gonna buy 3 times as much for something I won't use even if they bundle it with a lot of other features.
Let me guess, is there Tele2 available to you?
