How often do you buy a new mobile phone?

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and normally what is the highest you would be willing to spend for a mobile

Every year and no real limit. I sell my current iPhone and buy the latest iPhone. It's the only thing I do, I don't drink, smoke, go out (ha!) or buy extravagant clothes etc and because I sell the previous one in good time, it doesn't cost me very much.

I'm a very bad example

Every 2 or 3 years. Limit is around £40 a month but it doesn't have to be the latest model, just whatever one I take a shine to. I have a Galaxy s10 st the moment, before this I had an s6.

Every 2 to 3 years. I buy outright and do sim only.

Not very often - probably every 5 years or so. Last one was second-hand, they are so expensive now. I have never bought a new smartphone.

replaced the Samsung E something last year when the mic went. £10 from ebay. The one use for drug dealers is that they maintain the availability of small, low power, robust, long lasting, cheap mobiles.

I work from home so have no need for internet access outside it. When outside home is allowed, of course.

Probably about every two to three years, although I'm hoping my current one (a Motorola G7 power) will last at least that or more as changing over all the accounts, apps etc was such a pain in the arse last time.

I buy my phones separately from my sim only phone service and look to spend no more than about £150 although I got a fabulous Black Friday deal on my current one, as it was £75 after Quidco cashback and I sold my old crappy Huawei for £60 on ebay so it cost hardly anything to upgrade to a vastly superior phone.

But I'm not interested in phones at all and as long as it's not glacially slow and running out of storage space, I'll stick with it until it stops working.

Every 2 years (contract). I'd prefer 18 months. I find after 2 years they become obsolete - stop being updated, run out of memory, apps no longer work.

I aim to pay £40 a month if less. One of my old ones was £60 a month, but I had a job then which required a massive amount of data, which was more expensive back then.

I don't pay for a land-line or home broadband though, which of sets the cost somewhat.

When it breaks which is about every 3 years. £150 approx and I have a £7 pee month SIM deal.

Every 2 years when the contract expires. The current and previous one are Huaweis, so next year it'll have to be something else.

Whenever the phone breaks or i get bored of it which is usually every 3 or 4 years. Phones are far too expensive and I would never get a contract because I only pay £10 a month on my phone.

Never. I had an old brick phone until a few months ago when it died, and I've since been using DD's 5 year old phone.

But, as you'll gather from that, I don't get the love people have for their phones or feel the need to constantly be on one.

Every 3 years maybe. I always buy second hand too. They are too expensive new and haven't had a contract since the last recession, I hate the thought of signing up to 40 quid a month and then my situation changing and it being a struggle to pay,

Every 5 years, when battery is knackered. iPhone user on 24 month contracts. Usually try and keep monthly bills below £40

Every two years when the contract finishes the trade in old phone for payment towards a new one. Pay anything up to £70 a month, reasonably pleased with current contract at £46 pm.

I buy a new iPhone outright every 3 years. I use it on a sim only contract for approx £15 per month. My last iPhone was £700 so over 3 years about £20 per month. So in total I'm spending £35 per month on average.

It's probably less than that horror as you'd be selling your old iphones for a decent amount I would have thought for a 3 YO old?

I've always got around £50-80 for my 2/3 year old cheapy Androids, so I'd expect a 3 YO iphone that was £700 to begin with to be quite a bit more than that.

It really varies. My current phone I got on a 2 year contract in September 2018 and I have no plan to replace it when the contract ends because for one thing, thanks to my super strength case it is pristine, and for another, I am really looking forward to a cheap SIM only deal. When it starts to be rubbish I'll probably look around for another contract.

I had my old phone for years, a Samsung s5 which tbh I still miss and wouldn't have replaced if it hadn't died.

Very rarely. I think I’ve owned 4 and I’m in my mid 40s. I use them until they break. I can’t stand this idea that they are so disposable.

We need to break this mentality that we can chuck stuff just because we can afford it and there is something newer and shinier to buy.

Buying new tech when there's nothing wrong with what you already have is an environmental nightmare.

I've had my current phone 4 years now and am planning to keep it until it no longer works. When I get a new one I'll just get whatever works. I'm on a £20 per month rolling contract at the moment.

I get a new phone when I'm due an upgrade when my contract is up. Pay up to £40 a month. I'm not bothered about the latest model (they're way too big for me anyway and I'm not keen on most of the colours). I upgraded in January from an iPhone SE to an iPhone 8. I got a brilliant deal, I now pay £2 a month more than I used to and have a newer phone with bigger memory and more data (unlimited calls and texts same as before). I'm happy with it.

I have been an iPhone user since 2011. I don’t buy a new one every year, I’m in my early 20s so it wouldn’t have made financial sense for me to do that over the years, especially for incremental changes.

I update roughly every 2 years. I could afford to replace my current iPhone XS now, but don’t see the point. I’m very happy with it and could prob stretch to 3+ years with it. I would certainly wait for this year’s new iPhone Pro release instead of the 2019 model before considering replacing it.

Every 2-3 years, whenever something stops working that annoys me. I pay outright, no more than £130ish. No premium phones here.

But people aren't chucking the old ones (are they?). Old ones get sold on ebay or to go to Music Magpie or wherever and then someone else buys the second hand but still perfectly good phone, so it makes no difference whether some people upgrade as the old phone remains in use a while longer.

None of mine are chucked. They're either sold or handed down. DH gets first dibs, then DD1, then my mum! My mum is using a phone that I had years ago!

I've only ever bought one - a Motorola c from Argos reconditioned - cost me £60 outright and got a £4/month sim plan. It's fine but I've had it three years and it's starting to fill up now. Previously I just used people's old ones. I'll be a bit naffed off when I have to get a new one because this one was a bargain really but it took me a while to research what's decent as well as being cheap.