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Upgrading Smartphones: To wait or to Upgrade?​

Nowadays almost everyone is using a smartphone , And almost every week a new smartphone is being launched. As far as I can imagine more than 90% of users should have an old smartphone . Old means not like an ancient one it means it's predecessor is already launched . So where do you belong ? In the 90% category or in the least 10% category ? Don't ask about me I am using an ancient one 😅😅 to be more specific I am still using Realme 2 pro because why not ? 🥲🥲

Your old smartphone never becomes worse (it is as it is from the beginning) just the new launched phone is better than the old so it's our obvious psychological thought that our old smartphone is no more a good phone .

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Here are some questions to ask yourself before you plan to upgrade your phone .​

The first and foremost cause is you are either satisfied or not with your phone. By thinking this you must have to keep your emotions aside . Because you must have heard that "dil mange more" means we humans are never satisfied with something we always want better than the existing one .

Below are the some reasons which you must be noted when you planned to upgrade, with their pratical solutions too .

If your device didn't lasts throughout the day ? It's a obvious problem which everyone should have faced with their smartphones after one or two year of usages . But it's not a worthy reason to upgrade . You can simply visit to a service centre and replace the battery of your device.

Second you must have been run out of storage . It's another common reason but you know you can upgrade you storage by a external card or you can clear the trashes I mean unnecessary files from your internal storage. Storage space is never sufficent for anyone .

Third the software in your phone seems outdated . It's one of the most common problem some OEMs provides only one or two year of software upgrade which is really bad and you can't do anything they are not going to listen you by any means . You will ask what's the solution for this ? If you are really a tech geek and really want to know about all stuffs ( not a usual person ) then you must have to check the open source projects once . There is a whole lot of new things out there . You can get latest Android versions and security patches for your old devices too . This is how I am using my realme 2 pro with Android 12 .

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When do you need to upgrade ?​

First the most common one if it damaged physically and the repair cost is higher then expected then you must need a upgrade.

Second if the camera quality is not up to the mark and it really affects your day to day life .

Third if you can't find the parts to replace like battery, usb port etc then you must have to upgrade .

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when you planned to upgrade what will be your minimum requirements ?​

Now let's come into the final phase of this thread.

First you saw what are the reasons which are not worthy for upgrade , then I mentioned what are the reasons where you must have to upgrade , now finally when you planned to upgrade what will be your minimum requirements ? Let's talk about it .

It must have to be atleast 60hz amoled (good quality amoled though not inferior ramless amoleds ) . If 90hz amoled then it's like cherry on the cake . Hell no to lcd 🤮🤮🤮.

It must have a snapdragon seven series or higher processor . Or mediatek dimensity series . But snapdragon is always preferred by me .

It must have 6 gb or above ram and 128gb and above internal storage and the storage should be ufs 3.1 not usual emmc storage.

It should have atleast 4000mhz battery and supports fast charging I think fast charging is common now a days.

It should have atleast 3 years of Android update and should be launched with latest Android versions and the UI should be clean and bloat free.

These are my minimum requirements . I will consider this much when buying a new phone . What's your minimum requirements ? Let me know in the comment section . And after checking my requirements if you have to suggest a phone to me then what will it be ? Please suggest one I am planning to upgrade . It should be from any OEMs.

This much is for today. Hope you liked it , please hit the thumbsup button if you liked it. see you in upcoming thread .

Ta ta 👋👋👋

Sujit Kumar Mishra .