Based mostly on final week’s ballot, half of the voters are at the moment utilizing telephones which might be a 12 months or two outdated. However that’s not the common age of a cellphone and that common could also be rising – going ahead, half of customers may have a cellphone that’s 3 years or youthful.
Let’s begin with the primary query we requested – how outdated is your present cellphone? The highest reply was “1-year-old”, which means that lots of people upgraded just lately. There’s extra proof of that within the different charts too, however we’ll get to these.
Past a 12 months, it’s a reasonably even break up between 2-year-old and 3-year-old telephones. There’s a shocking quantity of telephones which might be even older – actually, a 3rd of voters are utilizing a cellphone that’s a minimum of 4 years outdated.
The second query – how outdated was your final cellphone? – reveals that two-thirds of voters retired a cellphone that was 3 years outdated or older. Telephones that lasted solely a 12 months or two are within the minority. Apparently, telephones that lasted 5 years or extra are as frequent as telephones that solely lasted 2 years.
Not solely did many individuals improve just lately, they appear to be very pleased with the telephones that they obtained. The ultimate query from the ballot signifies that half of customers plan on conserving their telephones for a minimum of 4 years. The truth is, the highest reply was “5+ years”.
The most typical substitute age of the final cycle was 3 years (this was the reply from 25.5% of voters within the second ballot). For a lot of, this may lengthen by a minimum of a 12 months, presumably extra. In the meantime, the quantity of people that will improve after solely a 12 months or two will shrink to 1 / 4.
That’s a testomony to cellphone corporations constructing {hardware} that can final for years, even within the fast-moving world of expertise. And the longer time frames of software program help are definitely serving to too. There’ll at all times be early adopters who get new gadgets as quickly as potential. However until cellphone makers give you new “will need to have” options, most others will probably be comfortable to maintain their present cellphone for longer than earlier than.
