How long have you had your current smartphone?

Smartphones come with bigger batteries, they are faster and more energy efficient. Does that mean we use our phones longer, or are we all too happy to be tempted by new phones? Leave your vote in our AW Poll.

Smartphone life

If you buy a new Android smartphone today, you know that the device must provide at least three years of faithful service before you suffer from less and less good battery performance, speed problems or other shortcomings. In terms of security updates, we should even be able to move forward five years. According to the European Commission, that term should become the standard for telephones and tablets.

Phones are increasingly equipped with more powerful and energy-efficient chipsets, but the Achilles heel of the smartphone is still the lithium-ion battery technology. A battery has only a limited number of life cycles. In other words, batteries wear out over time, and that process usually starts to become more noticeable to smartphone users after two years.

Although batteries are slowly losing capacity, we do notice that more and more phones are equipped with an extra large battery. We regularly see copies with a 5000 mAh or even 6000 mAh capacity. The latter is often particularly common in smartphones from the low price segment. Look at the new OPPO A17 and the Poco M5.

AW Poll

This AW Poll is one that returns regularly, and for a reason. As soon as the results are in, we can compare them with the figures from 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021. Has anything changed in the meantime? Do we use our phones longer and longer or do we regularly choose a newer model? Leave your vote in this AW Poll and tell us how long you use your current smartphone.