Thinking Of Upgrading Your Devices? Ask Yourself These 3 Questions First.
Can I afford it?

This is a bar you should be setting for yourself whenever you are about to make a ‘non-essential’ purchase. If you’re in credit card debt or living paycheck to paycheck it’s probably not the best time to spend $1000+ on a new phone. Your phone upgrade is not an essential — getting out of debt and paying off your credit card bill and starting a retirement account — those things are. So, if you’re not doing great financially maybe suck it up for a couple more years until you get yourself in a better financial standing.

How is my current device holding up?

If you do have the money, the next question to ask is ‘How is my current device holding up?’. There is a time/frustration correlation — the amount of time you can deal with a slow functioning, highly frustrating device before your reach a breaking point. At this point you can consider upgrading. In many cases you can save money by fixing small things like swapping the battery or broken screen or replacing the foam on your earphones instead of buying another pair completely.

Is the difference worth it?

When considering an upgrade it’s good practice to think — are the features worth it and is there an actual difference between one phone and the next. In many cases from year to year that might not really be the case. Over the course of about 3 year, you can start to notice some significant improvements. Two major factors to look for are the screen and the camera. Face detection and thumbprints might not be such important components. We all have different factors we look for depending on how we use our phones.
['Eric Kert']
['Devices', 'Saving Money', 'Minimalism', 'Money', 'Technology']