yet they’re still priced and treated culturally like luxury toys

  • MimicJar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I just bought a new phone (originally released in May 2023) for $170. I’ve used it for 3 days now and it works perfectly. My old phone lasted ~3-4 years and cost a similar price.

    I stopped buying “flagship” phones years ago and it’s been great. Midrange phones are absolutely the phones people should be buying.

    I also get the bells and whistles that are often missing from premium phones. I have an SD card slot for expandable storage and I have a headphone jack.

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      1 year ago

      Oh, man, I switched from Samsung to Sony because they still do all those midrange phone features in a flagship container.

      I’d have gone full midrange, but I hang around mobile developers a lot and I was already getting crap for being on a four year old flagship (that was still in working order and I still use for other stuff). Now my Xperia is a conversation starter in those circles, for some reason and I still get to add storage and use my headphones and my screen has no holes in it.