Why You Shouldn’t Upgrade Your Phone

Sergio Alberto Romero, Ed.D.
3 min readSep 17, 2021
Photo by Sven on Unsplash

I’ve been wanting to upgrade my phone for at least a year now, while my phone still works perfectly fine, I can’t help but be intrigued by the new and shinier versions that are popping up across the entire industry with bigger screens, better cameras, faster processors. It all feels overwhelming at times, but still I resist. In this article I want to try and convince you why you shouldn’t upgrade your phone, at least not yet.

Something Better Is Coming

I’m not gonna lie, this mental shift can almost apply to any piece of technology, whether we’re talking about phones or cars, the longer you wait to upgrade the better your upgrade will actually be. It’s really just the fact of science and innovation. Think about if you bought a Blackberry back in their prime days as the best pocketable PDA, if you didn’t upgrade until the latest iPhone 13 this year, you’ll have such a better experience whether we’re talking about actual speed and performance or just more developed features. The longer you wait in order to upgrade your gadgets the more likely you’ll actually get a worthwhile experience. If you upgraded each and every year the upgrades will feel so small that they likely won’t justify the huge price tag that goes along with it. Try holding out for an extra year and you may be surprised by how much better technology improves.

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