How long have you had your mobile phone?

tholland55

I'm trying to figure out how much mobile phones cost us in real terms. Does anyone have any ideas how long the average mobile phone lasts, not just in terms of its age but in terms of how many hours calls are made / received, text messasges sent / received, etc.?

Or indeed how long do you usually keep yours before it gets replaced?

rogerramjet

got a 4 year old nokia 6310i which has an all calls duration count of 375:16:11 ahd still works well with very good battery life, also got an old nokia 5110 and a 7110 which both work well with no problems, these phones are now backups and are not used that often, recently moved over to a nokia N70, prior to that I was using a nokia 6630.

Symbeaux1

5 year old motorollo accompli 008, scared to replace, thought of using buttons puts me off, good battery life and used daily, for calls and texts.

Alltheloginsaretakenappar

My Sony Ericssons (W550i and K750i) are only a couple of months old as I get a free upgrade every 12 months and cashback. The rest of my family are happily using my hand-me-downs and all are still working perfectly:

• My uncle has my LG 8130, 1 year old (rubbish phone, glad to be rid of it)
  
• My Mum has my Motorola V300, 2 years old
  
• My sister has my, Nokia 5-something-or-other (I never even used it before giving it to her), 3 years old. She still uses it as a second phone as she splits her time between here and Ireland.
  
• My Dad has my old Nokia 3310, it must be about 5 years old and still works perfectly but the on/off button is really worn down and it's had numerous new fascias and keypads. This is the only one I really paid for since I wasn't aware of cashback deals back then, but it's had the most use on a day-to-day basis as well as the longest number of years use. He probably needs to replace it soon, but I dread teaching him to use something different.
  
• And we've still got my Dad's old Nokia 3210 as a spare and recently used a lot for holidays abroad. Its probably about 6 years old and was only replaced as he dropped it in a bucket of water but it worked again the next morning once it had dried out.
  
• And my second phone, an ericsson T90 I think, still works but needs a new battery, only really kept for desperate emergencies or until I find a charity who'll take it. My first ever phone, a brick by motorla, I lost one drunken Christmas eve.

To be honest even if a phone still works after a couple of years it makes no difference to me. It won't have the newer features I've convinced myself that I need and as I said I don't pay for them anyway.

wigginsmum

Nokia 9300i, got last summer on an 18-month contract. Far too sophisticated for me - when my contract is up in the autumn I shall give it to DH and get myself a cheap little PAYG like a Lobster. I make and receive maybe 2 calls/month.

reehsetin

i spend over 3000mins a month on the phone (bad i know!) and ive never had a phone die on me within 12 months or had any real problems (k750i i thought died but updated it and it was fine)! which i think is pretty good!

only one that i had any kind of probs with was on my 3 contract my LG phone which would just have mood swings sometimes and drop calls etc dont know if it was the network or the phone tho but that was on a contract where i used under 500mins a month and that went funny about 9 months in

patwa_2

I'm one of those techie junkies. I first got a mobile in Jan 2005, Nokia 1100. Augst 2005 saw me onto the Nokia 6630. Then april this year Sony Ericsson K750i for a few days before i sold it. Then a Nokia 6610i before I again sold it. Then Nokia 660 - this one actually for about three weeks (was using it with the Sim4Travel card) before I sold that. Now I only have the Nokia 6630, although that's up for sale at the moment, hoping to get a cheap N70 that is unlocked, then with tne new contract in August when the current one expires, maybe a N80, N90 or N91?

Cheers and take care.

Hussein.

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Got my first mobile (an old Nokia brick phone) in May 1999 on an Orange everyday 50 contract (ah, the good old days). Have had a new phone every year since when my annual contract expired. Only had one break so far, and that was part of a product recall and I got a replacement immediatly.

I've probably got 2 or 3 sitting in a cupboard, the others have gone to my mother, and she's had upgrades as I got newer phones.

I now have a Nokia 6021 (work phone) and a Sony K750i (personal). The battery life is epic on the nokia and the sony has the fancy toys. It's soon to be replaced with an even fancier K800i. I travel a lot, so its nice to have a phone that plays games/mp3s.

I have been with O2 since the time of Genie, i've found they will let you upgrade your phone after 10 months, even if you're on a 12 month contract. Once I settle down, buy a house, I'll probably stick with one phone until it breaks on a pays-as-you-go contract.