Join the discussion: What's the most expensive phone you've owned, and was it worth it?

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aboona777
aboona777
Arena Apprentice
• 1y ago

iphone 4s, about $660 at the time, for probably 16gb storage, used it for years, worth every penny!

haven't paid more than $600 for a phone since, while not sacrificing flagship performance.

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Arena Apprentice
• 1y ago

Galaxy s6 it was expensive at that time but wasn't worth the money it was stuttery n had poor battery life till the screens broke I shifted from Samsung since

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Brewski
Brewski
Arena Master
• 1y ago

In 2015 and before, phones were subsidized by the carrier. The most you would ever pay is $200, and then you had a 2-year contract. Sure, you could pay full price but even then it was only around $500-$600. Then they stopped subsidizing and made the customer pay full price and the costs skyrocketed. I bought the Moto Z2 Force in 2017 for somewhere around $700-$800 because that was the norm at that time. Once I noticed the upward trend and realized it wasn't coming back down, I decided to change my strategy. I used to get a new phone every single year, but I kept that phone for 2 years and I would say it was worth it. I already had all the Moto Mods/accessories from the first Gen Moto Z so it was purely an upgrade in specs on the phone. But in 2018 Moto decided to not release a flagship phone and use the previous gen chip, I moved off of Moto and onto OnePlus. Similar or better specs but lower price. Then if I wait until it's on sale it's even cheaper. Expensive phones are for people who just want to show it off.

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Brewski
Brewski
Arena Master
• 1y ago
↵DFranch said:

$800 for the Galaxy S7 edge might not seem like a lot, but it was 7 years ago. While I paid a similar $800 for the S21+ and S23+, Those phones are much better than the buggy S7 edge was. One day battery was decent, the next it would lose 10% battery in an hour just sitting on the desk with the screen off. It was the 1st phone where I had to constantly check the battery to make sure it hadn't started eating battery for no reason. I had to reboot that thing a couple of times a week because of battery drain issues. The front swipe FPS worked about 25% of the time. When I got the Oneplus 7 pro to replace it I was much more reliable IMHO. I was hesitant to get the S21+ after the OP 7 Pro, but Samsung seemed to have exorcised their demons by this point.

I had that phone. My first Samsung experience. My work needed me to buy a phone and they would pay the monthly bill so I branched out of my comfort zone and got it for $300 with carrier subsidy. I used it for 2 years and sold it to a coworker for the same price and got my money back. I was a good learning experience, I found out I don't like Samsung at all.

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houseofcortez
houseofcortez
Arena Apprentice
• 1y ago

Z Fold 3 .... breaks easily and it was heavy and awkward not to mention expensive ...not buying another foldable until they're more durable.

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Crispin_Gatieza
Crispin_Gatieza
Arena Master
• 1y ago
↵MariyanSlavov said:

If only it was running Windows... Other than that, I think it's one of the coolest and most premium-looking devices to date. No crease! :))

I hope you mean Windows Phone 8.1 or Windows Mobile 10 and not the PC version. Please tell me you're not one of those who think it's a good idea to run Windows on a display smaller than 10". I barely use my Surface Go 2 because of this. The only time Windows was good on a touchscreen-only tablet was when Windows 8 and later 8.1 came out. I miss the Charms and the Live Tiles but of course, the lily-livered haters had to have their Start button or they would burn their Starbucks Rewards cards in Redmond.

Just for gits and shiggles, I'd love to see someone port iOS onto a Duo. Oh the humanity!

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TBomb
TBomb
Arena Master
• 1y ago

The most expensive phone I ever owned was the Pixel 7 Pro at $899... but I didn't pay $899 for it. I paid closer to $600 for it after a trade-in.


The most expensive price I ever paid for a phone was the Pixel 2 XL at $849.

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Knownhost
Knownhost
Arena Apprentice
• 1y ago

Galaxy Note 9 at full price. Best phone I have ever owned.

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stferrari
stferrari
Arena Apprentice
• 1y ago
↵Brewski said:

I had that phone. My first Samsung experience. My work needed me to buy a phone and they would pay the monthly bill so I branched out of my comfort zone and got it for $300 with carrier subsidy. I used it for 2 years and sold it to a coworker for the same price and got my money back. I was a good learning experience, I found out I don't like Samsung at all.

Having had over 6 Samsung flagship, the S7 Edge being one of them many iterations back, I can tell you the S7 Edge is not in any way a good example of any modern Samsung phone.

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Smbaita1
Smbaita1
Arena Apprentice
• 1y ago

The most expensive I've owned is the Sony Xperia pro I with clogging kit

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