Phones are getting better support lives these days, but they still physically outlast their software support. How important is that safety net/blanket for you?
I am not planning on saving any nuclear launch code on my phone any time soon, so I’ll use it untill it lasts. The end of life is more of a “dont fix the phone if it breaks from now on” date for me.
I’ve never had a phone’s hardware last that long. The charging port almost always gets fucked after just a couple years.
That is quite an achievement too be honest, havent had a charging port fail on me since phones switched to usb c.
I actually think the USB-C ports are worse than the micro with the phones I’ve had. They have a lotta play in them with how the cable can still move up and down. The little tab it’s connecting to gets worn out from it. At least the micro connector locked into place and wouldn’t jiggle anything.
As long as I need to, but it is definitely a relatively good reason for me to upgrade if there is a big sale or there is some other component that break.
For example I drived a oneplus 7T unsupported for around half a year before the sreen broke. So I never bothered to fix the screen and got a pixel (5 years of monthly update baby!).
When I had Android, I regularly used phones past the point that they got security updates. Even a supposedly premium phone was hobbled by carriers/networks not releasing updates and cheaper phones didn’t have them for long.
Since moving to iPhone (where the 6S is still getting security updates ) I haven’t had a phone long enough for the updates to stop.
Until the battery croaks. I tried replacing a battery once to prolong my phone and it is definitely not worth it. A phone should work well beyond their software support just as long as you don’t install anything shady
