How many phones have you gone through during your life and how much did you spend?

[KenTees]

Using iPhone 4s for 2 years, getting a 6! What about you guys. Phones are just too expensive

[Arty]

1 and it was "free"

[Enderman]

0

never had one

[JoaoPRSousa]

Probably 6/+

Because I lost many phones when I was younger :lol:

[Guest]

Started with a Samsung S390G (Tracfone...), and I've now had my 16GB iPhone 4S for a year. It's a trusty phone, and it'll last me a while until I can get my own plan; I currently use Freedompop.

[minibois]

Old Nokia (2004-ish)

Samsung one (2009-ish)

LG shitty smartphone (2013+)

 

First 2 were a present and last one half present. So like 150 euros

[Guest Kloaked]

'Bout four my whole life that I can remember.

 

Never paid a dime for the phone since I got the "free" ones.

[Aniallation]

Using iPhone 4s for 2 years, getting a 6! What about you guys. Phones are just too expensive

Uhhh....

 

Sony Ericsson W580i

Nokia N95 8GB

iPhone 3G

iPhone 3GS

iPhone 4

Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant 

Nexus S

BlackBerry Curve 9360 

2x Samsung Ace II X 

HTC MyTouch 4G 

HTC MyTouch 4G Slide

HTC Desire

HTC Amaze 4G

2x Galaxy Nexus

Samsung Galaxy S2 X 

Samsung Galaxy S2 HD LTE 

Nexus 4

Motorola RAZR V

Blackberry Z30

3x Samsung Galaxy S4

LG Optimus L3

2x HTC One M7

iPhone 5

2x Nexus 5

HTC One M8

3x OnePlus One

Alcatel OneTouch Pop Icon

iPhone 4S

Samsung Galaxy S3

Samsung Galaxy Note 3

Samsung Galaxy Avant

[thekeemo]

I have a zte f160 which is close enough to the nokia $15

[QueenDemetria]

To answer both of your questions: A bunch.

[FloRolf]

mh. lemme think

i had this awesome nokia which was one of the first with colordisplay it was like 150€. After that soem Sony W-something ~250€?!. I lost that and bought an S2 for 400-500€ and now i'm rocking my S4 which i spend 450€ on.

That makes a total of ~1300€ and i'll probably get the LG G4 if it's awesome enough

[NeverNotExhausted]

I've been through about 15 phones in the last year.

 

I get one phone a year on my contract and I like to keep that nice and fresh, I got a Note 3 this time last year and I'm due for a new iPhone 6 next week.

 

But I snowboard alot and I've not been able to keep my phones safe when I do so. So I got through about one a week during the peak season, I just buy el cheapo android units for the purpose now.

[Totallycasual]

In the past i would always get the best of the best, i still remember my little chrome Nokia 8800 and 8810's. Now i just buy a quality phone when the one im currently using dies which puts me at replacing maybe once every 4 years.

[bacosta1993]

I had an HTC One 7, Galaxy S4, Lg G2, Nexus 5, iPhone 5, iPhone 6 and now a oneplus one. 

I started by trading a computer that I bought for $400 for the One m7 and $100. I pretty much recycled that money to get all of these devices. I would say I only spent $600 for all these phones combined (including the cost of the PC).

[Levent]

2003 to date probably 10 ,I had shit ton of Symbian S60 phones.

[dadasmithywinkle]

Using iPhone 4s for 2 years, getting a 6! What about you guys. Phones are just too expensive

Faces indicate my response to the price of each phone.

 

Old moto flip phone for 2 years Free 

Old slide text phone (Moto, too) for two years Free 

Old slide text phone (LG) for a year Free 

iPhone 4 $200 

iPhone 4S $200  :mellow:

iPhone 5S $300 

iPhone 6+ $500  :wacko:

 

BTW - these are all on contract. I've owned a shit ton more off contract

[Thorium19]

A few candy bar and flip phones as well as my treasured Sony Ericsson swivel phone. Then came the LG cookie, and the cookie fresh (in which the screen died after 8 months) then the samsung Galaxy ace, followed by a brief stint with the S3 which I borrowed, then I got my current phone which is the htc windows phone 8S. Now, I'm on the hunt for my next device.

[Maheshvara]

Easily 30+... When i was younger i got a lot of phones from my father... Hell, i was changing them every 3 months (my friends were making fun of me and saying i changed phones as much as i changed socks...)... Like i said, my father was always interested in tech They never were the highest end, but they were mid-high range

 

The only phone i paid for from my own pocket/savings is my Samsung Galaxy Ace, my first Android... I could've went with so much better phone... I paid 288 euros for it at the time

[Thebman712]

nexus s and its not even really mine 

[Speedbird]

My first phone was some Sony Ericsson that I got when I started school in the year 2008. It was my dad's previous phone, so I didn't pay anything for that. About a year later, that phone went through a washing machine and died. The SIM card fortunately survived, and I got the phone that my dad used before this one: some old Nokia (probably a 3310 ). Used that until late 2010, when I got my first smartphone: a Nokia 5230. That was the Moto G of that time - the go-to budget phone. It was one of the few to support 3G, but unfortunately not WiFi. The price was about 300 euros, but it was a birthday present so I didn't pay anything. Fast-forward to 24th of December 2011. Android 2.3 Gingerbread was just released, and I got a Samsung Galaxy Gio for Christmas. That was my first Android device - and it was running the latest operating system - it had Gingerbread out of the box. Unfortunately, as this was a budget Samsung phone, that was the last Android version for it. I didn't use it a lot though, as I bought an iPad 2 about a month later, but I still felt a little sad when Ice Cream Sandwich was launched and I didn't get the update. In Mid 2014, I discovered an unofficial port of CyanogenMod 11 for my device. This would've been awesome.... If there was a package of Google Apps small enough for my device. I installed CM 10.1 instead, and I did like Jelly Bean. However, I did run a bit slow. It would take about 30 seconds to unlock if I was lucky. That phone was a single-core 800 MHz ARMv6.1 Snapdragon S1 with 340MB of RAM, so of course Jelly Bean would've been slow. A few months later, I went back to Gingerbread, but this time to CyanogenMod 7.2. That ROM was quite stable. I was actually able to have all my apps installed and not get a "Low on storage" warning. Ah, yes, I almost forgot: the phone had no internal storage. You had the /system partition, about 200MB of /data, where your apps would go to, and then you had to rely on micro SD. It came with a 2GB card, which I would've definitely filled up if I could've moved all my apps to it. Anyway, back to the story. On my 14th birthday, I bought an HTC One M8, my first high-end smartphone. A week later, it was running CyanogenMod 11. On January 2nd, 2015, I switched to Lollipop with CyanogenMod 12. Then, about 3 weeks later, I got S-OFF and converted the phone to a Google Play Edition device. Why? CM12 was a bit unstable. But right now, with the GPE stock ROM, it's very stable. However, I might switch back to HTC Sense soon, as I want to see how good Sense 7 will be.