For some people, the older the smartphone, the better
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2015 3:17 pm
I'm one of these people today =plus I'm not wanting to lease a dam cell phone . there other reasons to like the cost of buying a new phone. there the cost's of loosing your old contract deal you are on (grandfather in on your old phone ) my phone has a cracked screen in the corner but work's fine for me. Samsung galaxy 111 on sprint . its large but still not as large as some of the new model also has a swappable sd card and exchangeable battery. can't say or do that with the newer replacement model's.
anyway I'm hearing more and more people saying the same as me I'm good with the cell I'm on.
there still a lot of people who would love to upgrade if there was a smaller model also a flip style avail . both are not or very hard to come by . this is true by all cell phone carriers. they don't care about the 10 to 20 % who could give a rats ass about having a high tech cell phone,
Between splashy launches, lavish new-phone offers (get a free HDTV on activation!) and frequent software updates that slow down your old handset, it sometimes feels like the entire technology industry is pushing you to buy the latest smartphone. Yet some holdouts resist.
Take Zak Sommerfield, 35, a software analyst in New York, who has hung onto his LG Delight flip phone for five years, even though his friends and co-workers make fun of it. "I hate smartphones, I hate how they take over people's lives and they spend all their time looking at them," he says. "I'd love to stay on this phone forever."
People like Sommerfield are a rarity. More than 90 percent of smartphone users trade up for newer models within two years, says Ramon Llamas, who tracks mobile phones at research firm IDC. But a fraction of the population continues to cling to older phones, some 3 to 4 years old — or more.
These upgrade holdouts have different reasons for standing athwart techno-progress, yelling "Stop!" Some reject the trend toward ever-larger screens, preferring smaller phones that are harder to find these days. Others simply aren't wowed by the latest features, or see no reason to spend hundreds of dollars when their current phones still work fine.
"Just as we saw with PCs and tablets, lifetimes on people's devices are generally getting a bit longer," says Bob O'Donnell, chief analyst at Technalysis Research.
Every customer counts these days. Overall smartphone sales are slowing down — particularly in industrialized markets such as the U.S., where most people who want a smartphone already have one. IDC forecasts a 10 percent increase in worldwide smartphone sales this year, but that's slowed considerably from 27 percent growth in 2014.
http://apnews.excite.com/article/201511 ... c4c6d.html
anyway I'm hearing more and more people saying the same as me I'm good with the cell I'm on.
there still a lot of people who would love to upgrade if there was a smaller model also a flip style avail . both are not or very hard to come by . this is true by all cell phone carriers. they don't care about the 10 to 20 % who could give a rats ass about having a high tech cell phone,
Between splashy launches, lavish new-phone offers (get a free HDTV on activation!) and frequent software updates that slow down your old handset, it sometimes feels like the entire technology industry is pushing you to buy the latest smartphone. Yet some holdouts resist.
Take Zak Sommerfield, 35, a software analyst in New York, who has hung onto his LG Delight flip phone for five years, even though his friends and co-workers make fun of it. "I hate smartphones, I hate how they take over people's lives and they spend all their time looking at them," he says. "I'd love to stay on this phone forever."
People like Sommerfield are a rarity. More than 90 percent of smartphone users trade up for newer models within two years, says Ramon Llamas, who tracks mobile phones at research firm IDC. But a fraction of the population continues to cling to older phones, some 3 to 4 years old — or more.
These upgrade holdouts have different reasons for standing athwart techno-progress, yelling "Stop!" Some reject the trend toward ever-larger screens, preferring smaller phones that are harder to find these days. Others simply aren't wowed by the latest features, or see no reason to spend hundreds of dollars when their current phones still work fine.
"Just as we saw with PCs and tablets, lifetimes on people's devices are generally getting a bit longer," says Bob O'Donnell, chief analyst at Technalysis Research.
Every customer counts these days. Overall smartphone sales are slowing down — particularly in industrialized markets such as the U.S., where most people who want a smartphone already have one. IDC forecasts a 10 percent increase in worldwide smartphone sales this year, but that's slowed considerably from 27 percent growth in 2014.
http://apnews.excite.com/article/201511 ... c4c6d.html