[nextlevelwizard]

>I personally pay less than $400 a phone and keep it for over three years. Paying $1000 for a phone just two years is not an improvement.

Either you aren't using your phone much or you are needlessly suffering with inferior product. Wearing cheap shoes for years when you could afford comfortable high quality shoes is not a virtue. Same goes with tools we use.

[HeyLaughingBoy]

Have you considered that other people have different needs than you? My last phone (Nokia 640) cost about $200 and I kept it for 6 years. My current Samsung A12 is better in every respect and cost about $170 through AT&T. I'll probably keep it at least 5 years. I honestly can't imagine what usable benefit a $1,000 phone would provide.

[nextlevelwizard]

Yes, you can also walk bare feet, but that doen't make you any more virtuous. How did you invest that $900 you so diligently saved?

>I honestly can't imagine what usable benefit a $1,000 phone would provide.

unless you never leave your house you lack imagination pretty hard. how about just having 5G speeds for internet? what about actually quality camera? how about any of the millions of interactions a modern smartphone allows? yeah you (probably) can do most of thaty shit with old phone, but you thats like using 6 year old computer