[0ld]

No wonder, there was no significant advances in the market since several years, only bells and whistles

I personally do not feel any need to replace my current phone (even though it's 4 years old) - the new one simply will not really add any significant value to my everyday smartphone experience

Yesterday I've replaced the battery because the old one was slowly dying (cost me around $8), and that's it

[ocdtrekkie]

Indeed. People still like to talk about the "post-PC era" becaust PC sales slowed. PC sales slowed because they reached a level where a PC remained "good enough" for an extended period.

Is the "post-smartphone era" coming soon?

As it is, the main issue with old devices right now is that most of them are Android, and basically unsupported. If the dominant mobile phone OS ever gets serious about long term support, sales will slow even further. Maybe that's why they haven't.

[spicymaki]

I am not sure that is true. Smartphone core performance improvements have been impressive. For example: just compare the geekbench mulitcore scores of the iPhone 6+ released from late '14 to iPhone 8+ today: ~2400 to ~10200 relative to battery scores of 1510 @ 2915mAh to 2764 @ 2675mAh. You are getting 4x core performance and 1.8x battery performance with ~10% less battery capacity in just 3 years. It is more than just bells and whistles.

[ksec]

Multicore*

That is like saying you can have 4x more performance with the 16 Core Ryzen then your 4 Core Intel Chip.

The problem is multi core performance aren't as important as Single Core. And these improvment has lots to do with node size.

When it is good enough, more performance dont sell.

[robocat]

Well, compare single core values then: iPhone 6 at 1360, iPhone 8 at 4217.

https://browser.geekbench.com/ios-benchmarks