How long will you change your mobile phone?

[GTRagnarok]

2.5 years last time. Probably 3 years this time. I don't think anything less than 2 years' worth of technological advancement is worth an upgrade.

 

[gmaster456]

Whenever I become dissatisfied with my device. No matter the age. Right now I'm at 9 months with my Nexus 4 and still happy as can be. No device released this year has tempted me enough to buy anything else. Maybe the next Nexus will. Who knows.

 

[MotionMan]

I have been on a two-year, contract based cycle (and my current AT&T contract is not up until next October). However, this next time around I anticipate only upgrading 2 of our 4 phones (and handing down the 2 youngest existing phones). That will allow me to upgrade about every year (i.e. as the new phones come out) and everyone on my plan gets a "new" phone every year.

That assumes all the patterns remain the same and I continue with iPhones.

MotionMan

 

[lothar]

With as cheap as a Nexus phone is($250-350) and not to mention our cheap T-Mobile family plan, I'd be a fool not to upgrade yearly if there's a worthy improvement.
If the Nexus 5 offers a significant improvement in battery life over the Nexus 4, I'll upgrade to it.

Brand preference? Google Nexus.

 

[corkyg]

After my 2 year contrac t, I will look to see if there is any significant improvement in those features I use. If nothing really grabs me, I will then endeavor to keep using it at a lesser rate.,

 

[Ariae]

Once a year and I tend to stick w/ Nexus devices

 

[sarav]

Used to be once a year, but the S3 has been serving me pretty well since I got it on day 1 (more than 15 months now). Holding out for the next Nexus phone, if it doesn't have a 32 GB option will wait till next year.

 

[sgrinavi]

I was changing every 6 months or so for a while, I've had my ip5 for a year and will probably hang on to it for another 6 months.

 

[bamx2]

When it starts failing or totally breaks from my rough handling of it ( dropping and bagging it ). They last me year at best using a good case and screen protector. No pricey phones for me as I need to consider them to be disposable.

 

[Imported]

Typically every two years. Got an HTC One at launch so it'll be a while before I upgrade again.

 

[Geekbabe]

I'm a lifestyle blogger, lol, I change phones frequently, since last Oct I've had Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy S3, Blackberry Z10, HTC 8X, Nokia 822 & 928 & Galaxy Note 2, next phone will be Galaxy Note 3.

 

[Bateluer]

Whenever there's a device thats sufficiently better than what I currently own and when it coincides with my wallet. Thinking about selling my HTC One when the Xperia Z1 is available, if they can get their butts in gear.

 

[Barfo]

Plan on keeping my HTC One until the battery dies.

 

[yuku]

every 2 years.

So how will you deal with the old mobile phone?

 

[Samastrike]

Got my iPhone 4S in early 2012 and I'm planning on getting a 5S this year. I was going to get an HTC one but iOS 7 is probably the biggest reason I'm staying with apple. I've been running the iOS 7 beta for over a month now and I just love it, coupled with the 5S and it's a pretty solid upgrade

 

[yuku]

It depends. I think we're pretty much saturated on features now, there's not much more I can imagine adding to modern phones. They already have high-resolution color screens, decent battery life, Wi-fi, 4G, Bluetooth, NFC, fingerprinter readers, front & rear cameras with a flash, touchscreens, lots of onboard storage, all kinds of crazy apps, and are slim enough to fit in your pocket without burning your leg off.

I'm pretty happy with my iPhone 4S. I did have an iPhone 5, but the purple haze issue on the camera forced me to sell it, so I'm hoping the 5S fixes that problem. But if not, I won't be too put out by keeping my 4S, because it's a great phone. In years past, I think it was a bigger issue, because battery life was really short, the feature set was small, and new technology was coming out all the time. Especially with stuff like the new Samsung Galaxy S4 with a 5" screen, I can't imagine stuffing too many other features into a phone other than like a holographic screen or something. I think we've kind of hit market saturation at this point and the rest of the upgrades will be iterative - better battery life, faster memory & CPU (it can take up to 30 seconds to save some photos I edit in Camera+ on my 4S), higher-resolution cameras, etc. But it's not like stuff stinks today - the Galaxy S4 has like a 13-megapixel camera and a lot of screens now are at least 720p, so it's not like we're really hurting in terms of features these days.

You are right, it seems that the features displayed on the smart phones are almost saturated, and we have no idea of how the future phone will be like just as 10 years ago we could not image the feature of today's phone.

 

[corkyg]

So how will you deal with the old mobile phone?

Probably give it to a vet's charity organization.

 

[yuku]

I'm a lifestyle blogger, lol, I change phones frequently, since last Oct I've had Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy S3, Blackberry Z10, HTC 8X, Nokia 822 & 928 & Galaxy Note 2, next phone will be Galaxy Note 3.

Wow, you change mobile phones in such a high frequency. Since you are a lifestyle blogger, it is your job to experience different brands and transmit relevant information for your audiences, right? Interesting job!