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Survey reveals most people are holding onto their phones for a long time, and it makes sense (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 1 month ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/economics@lemmy.world

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Nearly half of our readers now wait three years or more to replace their phones as spec upgrades have plateaued.

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[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yes, the cameras are marginally better and the CPUs faster, but that's about it. I don't need, and certainly don't want, AI features, which is often the rationale for a new phone now. A user-replaceable battery would be nice, though.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago

FYI: Speech recognition is an AI feature and it gets (marginally) better with the newer chips. For example, in noisy environments.

That's probably the most-used AI thing that nearly everyone uses on occasion. Older phones had to send your speech to the cloud but with the new chips all that processing can be handled locally.

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