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From: Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Upgrade and pay more for less
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 17:39:32 -0000 (UTC)
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Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:
> I have a Samsung SM-A260F phone, and I've had it for 5 years now.
> 
> Specs here:
> <https://www.phonemore.com/specs/samsung/galaxy-a2-core/sm-a260f/>
> 
> My service provider keeps nagging me to "upgrade" but it seems to me
> that if I do so, I'll end up paying for for less. 
> 
> I would have 2 reasons to upgrade:
> 
> 1. To have a bigger/better camera (this one has 5Mp)
> 
> 2. To have more storage for all the nagging to "download the app now"
> when my phone keeps telling me "your phone is getting full" and
> suggesting that I zip the app, rarther than download mre apps. . 
> 
> But every phone in the catalogue that I can afford seems to have less
> storage space than the one I already have.

How do you work that out? Your phone has a maximum of 16GB of storage
(excl. any SD card). I doubt there any new phone with that little storage
these days. 64GB is more typical at the low end.