WYP
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MediaTek launches its Dimensity 9500 with "3rd generation All Big Core design".
Read more about MediaTek's Dimensity 9500 SOC.
MediaTek deliver huge CPU and GPU gains with its Dimensity 9500 CPU
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Read more about MediaTek's Dimensity 9500 SOC.
Deadtroopers
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It's a 'phone thing. Very OTT, and who cares? Very silly IMHO
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
Who cares? Most of the modern world who buys smartphones every year...
WYP
News Guru
Yep. When it's time to get a new phone, I'll want the new phone to be better than the old one. It's the same with all tech.
What seems over the top now won't be over the top for long.
Deadtroopers
Member
I want a mobile 'phone to make phone calls and send texts, anything else is gravy. Others want access to the 'net on foot, take photos, read books, and listen to music. Beyond a certain point you've hit the buffers because it is pointlessy expensive for no actual or very little return. You are never going to be David Bailey, so you'll never be able to exploit your fancier camera or its' better feature set for instance. Your pictures will never be above average and most of the time will be crap. So you read books? Just take a tour of reviews on Amazon of books for Kindle: the majority of the time the product you get will be inferior to a real book and far more difficult to navigate. All this on a 3 by 9 screen if you are lucky. Beyond a certain point you are in Hi-Fi Stupid land, paying thousands for a difference in sounds you can't possibly hear because the human auditory system is of finite and course granularity and by the time you can afford the gear has deteriorated a great deal below its' original fidelity. I'll reserve my daffy for boutique PC cases, £500 CPUs, and £1000 graphics cards, tah. Even those choices will be overridden for expanding my library of c.10,000 books!Beyond a certain point we are all making stupid purchases that add very little to our lives over those of choosing similar items of a quarter the cost and 90% or more of the value.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
I'm not reading all that. You don't have to like it or want it. You posed the question of who cares, and the answer is a lot of people want expensive phones. It just is what it is mate. Different strokes for different folks.
KingNosser
Well-known member
Well I certainly use mine alot, but for many reasons and i tend to upgrade every few years depending on what it's adding in terms of features as much as performance, the iphone 17 for me being on 16 wasn't worth it but thats often the case for a few generations but then i own and use two phones along side the laptop and PC eveything has a purpose regardless. Mainly with Adobe Express as I like I can use all my devices via that and edit things from any device at the same time.
WYP
News Guru
I replace my phone when my current phone starts to annoy me. Bad battery life, slowdown etc. New features can help tempt me to upgrade, but I don't use my phone for much aside from browsing, watching videos, calls and texts.
TBH, I will need to see if I can get the battery on my phone replaced. It is the only thing I don't like about it ATM.
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