Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: Upgrade and pay more for less
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2024 09:33:26 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 39
Message-ID: <vip7l6$pika$1@dont-email.me>
References: <dovtkj5c00tuoo57g5cgvondj2esr6akdl@4ax.com>
 <vinfok$7jat$2@dont-email.me>
 <ccfvkjptulomgriv3kfahmvv6im7eb1203@4ax.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Injection-Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 10:33:28 +0100 (CET)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6d2371b5466899785f7ac967479ae52e";
	logging-data="838282"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19unuz91zCib2kmh2v/oPFL4W0w60Kz9vI="
User-Agent: NewsTap/5.5 (iPhone/iPod Touch)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:bfTRZ1szWnJ3/H2cEielCHPCDjg=
	sha1:AhG1CNlYNj1Kmx4k3DI5iAwqoqs=
Bytes: 2504

Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Dec 2024 17:39:32 -0000 (UTC), Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> 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. 
> 
> The ones that I can afford offer 4-6 GB of storage, which is less than
> the 16GB in the phone I have.

Can you post a link? 4-6 GB isn't enough to install Android so I find that
hard to believe. 

However, if that is true, then you don't have to upgrade if your current
phone works for you.