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Re:You’re making me buy a new phone by TillE on Monday February 06, 2023 @08:17PM (#34687176)
I think phones are now perhaps approaching a plateau of "good enough" for anything resembling the current applications, but 2GB of RAM definitely ain't there. That doesn't cut it for a modern multitasking OS with loads of high-res graphics to go along with a high-res screen.

I've had an iPhone XS since it was released, it's only just barely starting to show its age, mostly with shorter battery life. Five years is a good long run for constantly-improving tech. Life is short, you simply won't have to worry about that many upgrades.

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Re:You’re making me buy a new phone by asdff on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @03:48AM (#34690332)
Sometimes I think the screen race is shooting the device in the foot. Anything after the retina display in the iphone was just diminishing returns. People aren't going to notice refresh rate or more pixels beyond what they can already resolve at that distance scrolling instagram, but it sure makes for great ad copy. I'm a bit of a radical where I think retina display is overkill on a laptop even, since I'm sitting here on my 1280x800 pixel laptop and I can't see any pixels from where the laptop actually sits in practice.
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