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From: Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net>
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Subject: Re: Upgrade and pay more for less
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 04:29:19 +0200
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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.

 



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Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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