Now is the worst time ever to buy an Android phone
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Yes, that's true right now. It was also true 2 years ago. It will be true next year, too. Every successive generation has to be better than the last.
Blatant crap IMO.
at every point in time you could say "don't buy gadget X because any time now they will have gadget Z available". and you will be correct. works for cellphones, cars, kitchen knifes. anything.
With regular sharpening, a kitchen knife can be just as effective as a brand new one for decades. It'll cut food just as quickly and efficiently.
A laptop may be workable, but it's going to become underpowered in empirical ways fairly quickly.
but again, my 5yr laptop still does everything i need at the same speed as it did 5yrs ago.
in fact, using the 3.1 kernel i think it's even faster than 5yrs ago.
on the other hand, 2yr of sharpening my san mai honyaki blade made the balancing impossible to cut the sashimi slices i used to cut when it was new. They came out too irregular now.
Also, if i had waited only 3 months before buying that knife, i would be able to buy the newer model with the nicer black handle instead of brow, which was only available to the Maguro bōchō at the time. I still regret it to this day.
PS: I bought a GTX 680 today I don't expect to see a 200W GPU that's much better for at least a year and a due to the die shrink a significant upgrade is probably 2 years away.
"For tech savvy smartphone users, committing to a two-year contract is brutal. Mobile technology moves so fast that smartphones can seem outdated just months after they launch. While this trend is bound to continue, the degree to which new generations of Android phones outdo their predecessors will always ebb and flow. Handsets have been improving at a somewhat modest pace for the past year or so, but the next crop of smartphones to hit store shelves will represent a huge leap forward rather than a few short steps."
His position is that while next-gen will always surpass current-gen, the upcoming handsets he covers will be a more substantial leap than generations past, and subsequent devices over the next 6-9 months will be playing catch-up rather than continuing to leapfrog.
What about heat profile, battery life, and cost? Spec-lists may sway some buyers, but most folks want to know how they can use those specifications to make calls and do tasks.
(I'd bet against it, due to the pretty constant constraint of jeans and jacket pockets.)
I don't give a damn about specs. I care what I can do with the phone. I was hoping this article was going to go in the direction of HTC is releasing a beautiful and blazingly fast phone that integrates Dropbox storage (which is true), improved speech controls, and a smart notification system that figures out when you want to get things done.
I have a year-and-a-half old iPhone. It has a great camera, a great screen (the first "Retina" screen), and it is plenty fast and the battery lasts about 36 hours with normal use. All of the new features in newer phones are marginal improvements over my current phone; the newest android phones are not leaps and bounds greater than the previous generation. They are ~20% better, maybe?
The point is, this guy is probably just obsessed with having the latest and greatest, even if it's only slightly better than phone he bought 3-6 months earlier. Most people probably aren't that crazy about technology, and don't have the resources to buy a phone more than once every two years.
For me, the 3300 mAh battery life is a definite current-generation game-changer. Not having to charge my phone throughout the day, no matter how much I use it -- and not having to carry around an extended battery -- is what I care about. I'd gladly take that over a higher-res screen.
There is a simple solution to this. Just choose a plan that doesn't contain a subsidized phone. It's cheaper which means you have money left for the phone you desire. Once that is outdated, just sell it on ebay or wherever and purchase a new phone. And so on. Of course, the new phone will cost more than you get for the old one, but you really can't have everything.