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...being forced to throw it away and get a newer model because you can't get software updates anymore and it has stopped working.

Yeah people would keep phones if they COULD. Like that's what we did when we had land lines, we had phones for forever. Cell companies could make things last longer if they wanted but that's not profitable.

It's called planned obsolescence. I'm not sure I buy that you have to have the latest model though--my phone is a Huawei that debuted in 2011, and it functions adequately.

I personally don't always buy the latest model. I actually have kept phones past their due date but most I've had lose battery power eventually and the phone company will stop making "those type" of batteries if you go into the store. It's also impossible to get fixed if any issue occurs and by that time the upgrade is usually free (if you don't want THE latest thing in any case.)

My mother absolutely hates it because she doesn't want a smart phone and her cell phone is only for when they travel/emergencies so she does her best to try to keep phones as long as she can.

"Yeah people would keep phones if they COULD."

But they can do that now. It's just that in order to do that, they'd have to sacrifice always having the latest bells and whistles that people now believe are necessary. If you simply get a phone that isn't an iPhone or a smartphone, there's no reason why you couldn't use it for years.

There are reasons you can't use it for years though, batteries only last so long and things in phones go bad. If your phone lasts, that's great! But not everyone's does. I try to make my phone last as long as possible but it's still more wasteful then having a landline phone which typically lasted for decades.

And I never go for the newest model but my job makes it necessary to have a smartphone, I delayed upgrading as long as I could but I would be in trouble if I didn't have one now.

Not to mention the fact that people can drop and break their phones...I did that to my Galaxy S4 when I was cleaning the screen. :C I had planned on having that phone for a while.

You totally can, though. I had my last phone for three or four years before my father accidentally bricked it. I'm coming up on three years with my current phone and it still works just fine.

3 or 4 years is still wasteful compared to landlines though. And not everyone is fortunate enough to have their phone continue to work through the years. I've had batteries die out on a 4 year old phone only for the cell company to tell me they don't make that battery anymore, and I had to get a new phone.

Except landlines are completely useless when your job requires you to have constant access to your phone and e-mail. I'm going out of town this weekend and need to be accessible to answer questions if needed. A landline isn't going to cut it there.

This is bullshit tho. "Forced" as in I can't play the newest candy crush or get facebook updates? This only applies if you work from your phone or use it to monitor a medical condition or something.

"Forced" as in I can't load the browser in anything less than five minutes, or any other app--like the one I use to manage my pay as you go plan--without the whole thing crashing.

I'm not some asshole who lives on their phone, but I expect it to do certain basic tasks.

Seconded. Plus, I do work from my phone a lot (answering e-mail in particular).

I knew there was another thing that failed; the keyboard refused to load.

dude what, my phone is like five years old and it loads pages just fine. It's a gross exaggeration that a two-year-old phone doesn't run. They run fine, unless something else has happened to it.

I don't think anyone was saying that they can't use their phone past it's contract, just that if your phone DOES go bad when the contract is up, it's much easier to get a new phone and the cell phone companies make it that way.

And two year old phones can absolutely stop running, heck even a one year or one day old phone can stop running, the difference is when it's under your contract you can still do things like call tech support and not be charged.

I use phones until they're pretty much dead but even I know that these companies make the phone cheaply on purpose to pressure people to buy new ones, it's not entirely the fault of the consumer. Even having a phone every 5 years is wasteful in comparison to landlines that could be in a person's house for decades.

I still have a landline and I've had it ever since I moved to Brisbane (coming up on 17-18 years now). I also have two mobiles (one for me, one for Mum), because you can't carry a landline around, and having a landline and at least one mobile gains a discount on my internet.

I find keeping a landline reassuring anyway.

But the annoyance of changing equipment still bugs me because of my modem. I think I've had three in the last 5 years, and the second one is still workable and sitting in my draw. Some time I should visit a Telstra store and ask if it can be used on pre-paid.

Where do you work? A lot of places expect you to be able to in the LEAST be able to check your e-mail at all times.

A working phone is important, and cell phone companies do not build their phones to last in the slightest and after your phone's expected end date, they will not provide you technical support (and if they do it's at a great cost.)

Like there are definitely some people out there who are just into the new and shiny, but a lot of us get new phones because our old phone died for any number of reasons. When I buy a new phone it usually isn't even the latest model, just the one I could get for free under my contract.

I am a wage slave for my local government, and this is not a job requirement for me. If it were, I would accomplish it in the cheapest and easiest way possible. I have had three phones in my entire life. I only buy a new one when my old one breaks.

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