Well sure, a 5 year old phone will lose most of these performance comparisons against modern phones, but will it lose badly enough for consumers to care?
My oneplus 7 Pro is almost 5 years old and it’s still snappy and works just fine with what I want to do on it.
I’m using a v60 and really don’t want to give it up. I’ll probably try a battery swap before buying any of the new crap on the market.
My current phone is 4 years and 3 months, remind me in 9 months and I’ll tell you if it’s still cool.
Great video Juan. Your last point about lazy reviewers is why you’re the only phone reviewer (he does way more than review phones people) in my subscriptions. And as far as android content goes, it’s only Android Faithful & In Depth Tech Reviews. It’s frustrating seeing reviewers increasingly go the pay to play route and often not even disclosing the fact their “review” is really just a commercial.
I was hoping to see more recommendations in the comments but I’m sure that’ll come in time.
I wish my old phones would work that long. Performance usually isn’t the problem. It’s hardware degradation. Battery dying. Ports wearing out. Boot loops and crashing.
Still using a 6.5 years old iPhone 7. Can’t fine a downside, still runs perfectly well. The only thing that needed a replacement is its battery. I hope it holds for another 4.5 years (with battery replacements).
I was using my samsung S7 until the power button fell off a year and a half ago. Yes I would still be using it today if that didn’t happen. I was still using it for like 6 months after too.
I’m using an LG K9 right now. Works ok, but I’d prefer a smaller screen
I’m still using a 4 year old Xiaomi Mi Max 3…
I have a few old phones that still work great. Yes Google might pull their support on the phone because it has an old version of android but you can always use fdroid or side load apps.
I have a couple of old phones here. A 10 year old phone that is used as a bedside alarm and flashlight when needed. The other is a 6 year old phone that is used as a practice device of loading custom ROMs and jail breaking purposes.
Phones were already far more powerful than what most people needed back then so I’m not surprised that, performance wise, they still hold up.
The problem is vendor support. As soon as a device stop receiving OS and baseband security patches, it becomes potentially insecure.
My Samsung s9+ with Evolver Android 13 custom rom (and duo sim) is still a very good phone. Amoled screen, good camera and battery life still over a day when setting the brightness not too high. Not a scratch on it too. I don’t use it daily though as it is a very big phone, but I take it when going out or on holiday because the camera on my iPhone SE is crap and as you mention for gaming.
I have been repairing tons of these phones here in the Netherlands and it is just a very solid phone that is very easy to repair. The s10 for instance comes with a single board instead of sub and mainboard like the s8 and s9 series, so when something is wrong with a USB, like not charging or connecting to PC or the mic doesn’t work the board get’s scrapped for usable components and these components come back on refurfed boards that we get back from Samsung (those are often a pain in the ass prone to not pass the quality checks after repair).
I still use an iPad 2 for making music and as MIDI controller for the Home Studio, I just dislike to throw away perfectly good hardware, as is my s9+
Thanks for posting.
I made the mistake of buying an international V20 model at the beginning of 2018, which didn’t have VoLTE capability. When they started shutting down 3g networks here it could no longer make phone calls. :( If it weren’t for that I’d still be rocking it
Consumers will buy what they’re told.
