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Roland Moore-Colyer

Have your say: How long do you keep your phone for before upgrading?

The iPhone 16 Pro Max and Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra.

As some of you might have read, I'm starting to think that smartphones have gotten rather boring and lacking in any major step changes from generation to generation, even from two generations ago to current-gen models.

And in a recent conversation with Senior Staff Writer Hamish Hector, the topic of when people upgrade came up. While, as technology journalists, we get to see and assess the incremental changes from one generation to the next, the impact of new phones might be better felt by people who've held their phones for two to three years.

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