• _NoName_@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    The big reason is that you’re choosing to spend several hundred dollars to put your still perfectly performant phone in a land fill so you can have a percentage or two more performance.

    Your dial up comparison is not really a fair comparison, either. The S9 is not dialup in comparison to Samsung’s new galaxy phones. You’d have to go down to like a BlackBerry or a Nokia flip phone to have that comparison make sense.

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      1 year ago

      Let’s compare the S9 to the S23.

      The S23 has Wi-Fi 6E support, Bluetooth 5.3 support, twice as much base storage and RAM, 5G support, an in display ultrasonic fingerprint sensor, 3 high resolution cameras, 120hz refresh rate, twice as fast internal storage, a 33% larger battery, a much newer version of Android and to top it off a processor that’s roughly 3X as powerful as the S9.

      So to me it might not be fair to call the S9 dialup but I would say a comparison between broadband and fiber is pretty accurate. At the very least the other features are worth upgrading for if not the speed. Now I suppose the S9 is still a perfectly good phone to be used as just a phone but these things are really portable computers and the increase in processing power becomes tremendous in a short period of time.

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        1 year ago

        Does your home router support WiFi 6e? your accessories BT 5.3? Your phone carrier stable 5g?

        I can understand the battery and the screen improvement. But I also don’t think it’s as drastic as you claim.

        • TanakaAsuka@sh.itjust.works
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          1 year ago

          This is an android enthusiast community. For a lot of people here the answers to that are going to be yes, yes and yes.