[Pousinha]

How much do you wait to buy a new phone, tablet, notebook or pc? Do you wait they stop working at all, when there is no way to be repaired any more (aiming to save money as much as possible), wait the new launch model (aiming to take home the newest device) or change when a device is obsolete (incompatibility with most of apps and programs), even still working?
I usually prefere the first and the third, whatever device.

[nela13]

Not very frequently, I only change my phone when it starts to have technical problems and that is the device I change more often. I have my iPad for 7 years and my MacBook for 6 years and both are still quite good.

[kataomoi]

Not that often. I take care of my electronics so they never really "break". I only switch when they're really, really old or broken and there's a good sale on something I want. I'm not one that switches to a new model whenever one is available.

[Pousinha]

Not very frequently, I only change my phone when it starts to have technical problems and that is the device I change more often. I have my iPad for 7 years and my MacBook for 6 years and both are still quite good.

I would have purchased a macbook, but in latin America are shameful expensive (14K reais in Brasil for the least macbook, Argentina not to talk at all how shamefully technology costs ). But above all, I came to know Apple is involved in children labor mining in Congo (I read about te happening a new here in forumcoin -it's a topic about the big earning of Apple company-) . After such a new, I stay far away from the company., even knowing the very long lasting devices life (a macbook has much more life than a micosoft based pc or notebook).

Not that often. I take care of my electronics so they never really "break". I only switch when they're really, really old or broken and there's a good sale on something I want. I'm not one that switches to a new model whenever one is available.

Unfortunately my first pc broke irreparably after only 3 years in spite of taking much care of it as possible. The battery charger burned 2 times (the second time damaging all pc ) without any apparent reason. Surely it came with a manufacturing defect ).

[nela13]

came to know Apple is involved in children labor mining in Congo

Really?! I wasn't aware of that, exploring children is immoral and I don't feel comfortable buying products from a company that uses children.

[Pousinha]

Yes Nela, there is a discussion about very big earnings made by the company, that is in the stock exchange too. Apple, google, micosoft, tesla and dell are under trial cause children labor mining in Congo. There is a video about posted in that topic. Especially about apple, it's a terrible shame its prices that no other companies apply to their devices. Supposing apple shameful spares money while involved in african children labor mining, how dare these prices? If I could, I'd turn 100% linuxian, but unfortunately all universities I know, mine too, have microsoft and google requirements. They compell students using windows, internet explorer, chrome, microsoft office (I substituted office with the open source openoffice -due to office price, as I still had no dea about microsoft involving-, but believe me, it's a martyrdom do build up an academic work if you don't use office, as 60% of the job is formatting, formatting and formatting and we may lose points marks if we mistake formatting ).

[mrki444]

I change my phone every two years max. Often little before. I buy cheap models or some from middle range but still cheap so they don't last long.
Notebooks are different story. I change them every 4-5 years or until they last. I choose middle model and it can last for me atleast 5 years.

[Pousinha]

My last notebooks middle mode lasted respectively 8 and 7 years. Better said, those devices of mine are still alive, but one of them needed to be repaired (it was the screen and the keyboard -for the keabord nothing to do, I must use virtual keabord or one exernal I just had-, I didn't want to lose it has it made history and it still can preserve lot of important documents -even saved in pendrives too-). In any way, as those notebook are not in very good condition (the second got terribly slow -it's not a virus, it's CPU- and doesn't support chrome and skype any more), I bought a new one to not being impossible studying and working.

[HENRY@147]

I don't really enjoy frequent change of devices though at some point, devices need to be changed.

[skysnap]

Phone every 2 years. Laptop every 4 years and desktop as much as possible till the new processor or the graphics card demand is there.

[Mika]

When I buy a new device, I always make sure that I use it for at least two years. My laptop is three years old and my mobile phone is 2 years old.

[Pousinha]

I like to keep them for many years. Apart avoiding a spendthrift habit (due to the shameful latin americans prices to buy technology), I end up very found of mi devices
About notebooks, I store them important documents (I don't forget to do in the pendrives and cloud storage too ), my beloved autorship e-books, videos, photos. My oldest 8 years old toshiba sat accompanied me along all my second degree and I like that old stuff .
I remember a collegue of mine owning her HP notebook since 11 years, no defects and she never talked about changing it. About mobiles, I prefere maintain as long as possible one with great features as galaxy A9 (after an half and 1 year it's very much faster than my toshiba notebooks, runs whatever app and updates to the newest android release), as helped by a second phone, a cheap one, not so great at all, but useful to run app to earn ethereum.

[skysnap]

Mobile are designed such way that keeping them longer just don't work anymore. In fact the 3 year is the maximum it can be stretched.

[sprite1950]

I have a contract phone and change it every 2 years. I have the option to trade in my old phone to my network provider which takes money off the bill or keep it as a spare phone. I have just got a new iphone but did not trade in my old one as I cracked the screen by dropping it so will just keep it in case I need to repair my iphone.

My desktop I will keep for as long as it lasts and is performing well, my current one is around 5 years old. I have a an Acer chromebook which is about 12 years old and still working well. When that dies I will get another one.

[Pousinha]

Mobile are designed such way that keeping them longer just don't work anymore. In fact the 3 year is the maximum it can be stretched.

Yes, it is called planned obsolescence, studied by companies for these reasons (one or the other, when not both of them):

1) force customers to waste money with the newest models to maintain their billionaire income. This surely apply to multinational international companies
2) to not fail and going bankrupticy cause having nothing more to sell. This apply to little and medium enterprises

In any way, my first galaxy smartphone (the slim III) was still working when I changed it for the A9, after 5 or 6 years of use. But the matters were a terrible slowness and incompatible paid tasks apps cause android jelly bean. So I purchased the A9, taking advantage of the sale of 1000 reais leaving the old phone in the samsung shop.

[Carson20t]

At first it was really not all that important to change my devices but as I have entered the tech witlld sndbinhavd to look at various specs like Ram,storage,screen size,portability,battery life,camera.microphone and general performance and durability.So with these factors in a year is enough since I can't buy The best but near to the best which I will have to continuously upgrade as i am earning now.

[Lushh]

How much do you wait to buy a new phone, tablet, notebook or pc? Do you wait they stop working at all, when there is no way to be repaired any more (aiming to save money as much as possible), wait the new launch model (aiming to take home the newest device) or change when a device is obsolete (incompatibility with most of apps and programs), even still working?
I usually prefere the first and the third, whatever device.

I usually wait until they decide to part ways with me by natural death. Lol. It seems some of the devices are not made to last (maybe for good reasons). The makers would probably go out of business fast.

[Pousinha]

Unfortunately companies claim they go bankruptcy if the manufacture long-lasting device. But I hard believe the big multinational companies would face this issue . Small and medium-size companies really break (decades ago, this happened to a medium-sized italian company, well-know to manufacture durable devices and this was the bankruptcy cause: no new devices to sell).

[uobill]

Since getting my new phone that has much better battery life, I have been charging mine every other night. I try not to charge it unless it's legitimately low.

[Pousinha]

I recharge the A9 when its battery is from 4% to 12%. It averagely lasts 36 hours until reaching the range between 4% and 12%. Considering I use several bank and earning apps, but I don't watch many videos. In the case of youtube I often prefer the notebook. Does it mean weak battery?